A former Cramer & Anderson LLP partner serving a prison term for fatally shooting an apparent attacker has lost his license to practice law in Connecticut until 2031.
A former Cramer & Anderson LLP partner serving a prison term for fatally shooting an apparent attacker has lost his license to practice law in Connecticut until 2031.
The 97-year-old widow of author William Styron has settled a suit by a playwright who claimed he held exclusive rights to the stage version of Styron's novel "Sophie's Choice," according to a filing in Massachusetts state court.
Following the 2024 ouster of Connecticut's chief public defender for misconduct, a state commission voted unanimously to appoint acting Chief Public Defender John Day to formally serve in the position, the commission's chair has announced.
Federal prosecutors are fighting an oil trader's bid for freedom while he appeals a 15-month Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prison sentence, arguing the trader should begin serving time by Feb. 9 because his jury conviction probably won't be reversed.
Higher-ups at Connecticut title insurer CATIC and its nonprofit holding company don't have to face a former director's claims for emotional distress and tortious interference over his ouster, a state court judge has ruled.
Rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence test work-product principles first articulated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s nearly 80-year-old Hickman v. Taylor decision, as courts and ethics bodies confront whether disclosure of attorneys’ AI prompts and outputs would reveal their thought processes, say Larry Silver and Sasha Burton at Langsam Stevens.
A former Baker McKenzie associate who was sued for defamation over a series of social media posts accusing the firm's Washington, D.C., managing partner of sexual assault has brought her own lawsuit, marking the first time she publicly detailed her allegations in court records.
Shortly after former special counsel Jack Smith gave his first public congressional testimony on the Trump cases, in which he warned the rule of law should not be taken for granted, President Donald Trump said he should be prosecuted.
A former lawyer at SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's firm said Thursday that Goldstein told coworkers that the more than $960,000 in cash he brought off a flight from Hong Kong — the source of which is integral to the government's case — had come from a client.
The American Bar Association said attorneys have a limited responsibility to convey information to former clients or successor counsel that was not within the client's file, when doing so is necessary to protect a client's interests and reasonably practicable, according to a new ethics opinion.
A proposal to loosen restrictions on the use of federal criminal subpoenas would endanger and further traumatize victims of crime, most of whom lack legal representation to fight the invasive demands, victims' rights advocates told a federal rules advisory committee on Thursday.
Pennsylvania's highest court has adopted a balancing test for restricting a sitting judge's free speech outside the context of an election and, in doing so, affirmed the suspension of a state court judge who it said damaged the court's appearance of impartiality by making political posts on social media.
National litigation news outlet Courthouse News Service has voluntarily and permanently dropped claims against a Washington, D.C., Superior Court clerk and the executive officer of the D.C. courts over filing delays, with both sides agreeing to pay their own costs.
