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A Nevada college administrator had been told as a child that he was the baby snatched from his parents at a Chicago hospital in 1964 and found abandoned more than a year later in New Jersey. Paul Fronczak, 49, learned the story wasn’t entirely true when he and his parents…

Tampa socialite Jill Kelley and her husband, Scott, have filed a lawsuit claiming the government violated their privacy by improperly disclosing emails that led to an FBI investigation and exposure of former Gen. David Petraeus' affair with his biographer. Kelley had complained to the FBI about harassing emails from an…

Updated: The lawyer glut is worst in Mississippi, where there were 10.53 law grads for each projected legal job opening in 2011, according to data compiled a lawyer who is a legal blogger. Overall there are more than two law grads for every estimated job opening, according to Matt Leichter,…

A Kentucky senior judge faces ethics charges, in part for a well-publicized case in which he threatened to “strangle” a public defender he deemed a “backseat driver” rather than a “real” lawyer. The ethics charges against Judge Martin “Marty” McDonald cite the September incident in which…

A Florida lawyer says he is seeing an unusual number of veterans receiving disability benefits for sleep apnea in his family law practice. Michael Webster, a lawyer in Shalimar, Fla., has decided that the boom in such payments is a scam, and he is asking his congressman to do something…

The University of Louisville’s Brandeis School of Law is ranked 68th in the country by U.S. News & World Report, but it gets the most bang for its buck, according to the publication. The school tops a U.S. News list of the most efficiently operating law schools, according to

At least a dozen Kentucky lawyers have committed suicide since 2010, half of them in the last year. Kentucky Bar Association president Doug Myers knew five of them. He calls the number of lawyer suicides in the state “disproportionate” and “disconcerting,” the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. The…

A Connecticut real estate lawyer and others with whom he schemed reportedly intended to sell upscale homes at a profit when they submitted fraudulent mortgage applications to get standard financing to pay off "hard money" purchase loans that carried high interest. But the real estate scheme in the state's burgeoning…

It's commonplace for women and men who work as prostitutes to be criminally charged while those who pay them for sex are treated as witnesses. But it's time to change that approach to the problem, a suburban New York district attorney said Monday as she announced that a monthlong sting…

The former attorney general of Utah has resigned his new job as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Troutman Sanders, calling the commute to work and his national speaking schedule "just too hard," the Salt Lake Tribune reports. "I just decided I couldn't do…

A military trial opened Monday at Fort Meade, Md., for a soldier accused of providing to WikiLeaks a massive trove of classified documents that some consider more momentous than the Pentagon Papers provided to the New York Times nearly 40 years ago concerning the Vietnam War. Pfc. Bradley Manning is…

News of drug charges against former Circuit Judge Michael Cook, who handled most of the drug cases in St. Clair County, and a county probation officer has rocked the local legal community. "How come we didn't know about Judge Cook? His office is 25 feet down the hall from mine,"…

A New Jersey dad who lost custody of his children appeared in court in a Nazi uniform on Monday in a bid to obtain visitation rights with his 2-year-old son. Heath Campbell said his son, Hons, was taken by the state when he was…

A former law professor at the National University of Singapore will go to prison in an alleged sex-for-grades corruption case. Tey Tsun Hang was sentenced to five months in prison after he was convicted on corruption charges, according to Bloomberg News, the Straits…

An Illinois attorney is facing a legal ethics case over her alleged lies to the state Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission about her work as a prostitute. Reema Bajaj, who earned her law degree from Northern Illinois University in and became licensed as an attorney in 2010, pleaded guilty last…

Police may collect DNA from those arrested but not yet convicted for serious offenses, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 5-4 decision that compares DNA collection to fingerprinting. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote the majority opinion (PDF) upholding DNA cheek swabs as part of the booking…

Corrected: Convicted murderer Joran van der Sloot is now jailed in Peru, where he was found guilty of slaying college student Stephany Flores. His crime there was high-profile because of extensive publicity over the still-unsolved disappearance of another young woman, U.S. citizen Natalee Holloway, who vanished in Aruba while on…

Ivory Jordan was moments from being released from custody on Thursday, after her mother attended a court hearing for the 21-year-old and promised to keep an eye on her daughter. Circuit Judge James L. Martz told Jordan he was going to give her a "huge break" by releasing her, under…

Stephanie Francis Ward: How assertive is too assertive for women lawyers in private practice? Janice Brown: If you are a woman who desires success, one of the challenges is some people may perceive that desire as a negative for women. But if you want success, you have to learn to…

The merger of Fulbright & Jaworski and London-based Norton Rose became official today. The firm will have nearly 3,800 lawyers in more than 50 cities, making it one of the world’s top 10 legal practices by number of lawyers, according to a press release. The Wall Street…