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The wife of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez said Tuesday that a "serious medical condition" requiring surgery should delay her trial on bribery charges, a case a New York federal judge has firmly set for May 6.
The Senate voted 58-42 on Tuesday to confirm Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. White to the Eastern District of Michigan bench.
U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Central District of California is retiring next month after presiding over cases for more than 20 years, including high-profile matters like the one involving claims rapper Cardi B misappropriated a man's likeness for the cover of her 2016 mixtape.
Citing the case's harm to the reputation of lawyers, a Connecticut state court judge has suspended a real estate, personal injury and criminal defense lawyer for five years over a federal income tax fraud conviction, issuing a punishment beyond what disciplinary authorities suggested.
A New Jersey investigator looking into allegations of grant fund misuse in the Warren County Prosecutor's Office found sufficient evidence that James Pfeiffer, who abruptly resigned Friday as county prosecutor, made statements that could have intimidated witnesses, the state attorney general's office said in a new report.
A New York state appellate judge refused Tuesday to delay Donald Trump's upcoming criminal hush-money trial while the former president challenges a gag order, just one day after a different appeals judge declined to halt the trial due to supposed jury pool bias.
Former President Donald Trump's claim to absolute presidential immunity from criminal charges related to official acts contradicts the text and intent of the U.S. Constitution and would've been "anathema" to the document's framers, special counsel John L. "Jack" Smith told the U.S. Supreme Court late Monday.
The American Bar Association's president on Monday warned that attacks on judges and the U.S. court system have skyrocketed in recent years and urged lawyers to stand up for the judicial process by defending judges who are unjustly criticized.
An attorney is suspected of fatally shooting prominent Las Vegas personal injury trial lawyer Dennis Prince and Prince's wife before killing himself in a targeted shooting during a deposition in a child custody battle at the Prince Law Group's offices Monday morning, according to the Las Vegas Police and media reports.
A Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group has urged the Georgia Court of Appeals to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis from prosecuting former President Donald Trump and other defendants in the 2020 election interference case, saying her romantic relationship with a since-resigned special prosecutor created "an odor of mendacity."
Former President Donald Trump and his remaining 13 co-defendants asked a Georgia state court judge for permission to appeal a decision in which he refused to drop the criminal charges leveled against them in the state's election interference case on free speech grounds.
A former court clerk in the Southern District of New York was sentenced to two years in prison Monday and a disbarred defense attorney was hit with a year-long term for an alleged cash-for-referrals scheme.
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez is seeking to have evidence about his and his wife's lifestyle and spending habits and information about his campaign donors excluded from the bribery trial that the couple and two business associates are facing on May 6, according to court documents.
A New York appellate judge on Monday denied Donald Trump's request to halt his upcoming hush money trial due to what the former president cast as a hopelessly biased jury pool in Manhattan, as he awaited a hearing on his separate bid to lift a gag order.
The new chief judge of California's Central District has already been the nation's first female Chinese American federal judge and is known for her sometimes scathing rebukes of the government's treatment of migrant children.
A New York judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump's attempt to subpoena records from NBC linked to Stormy Daniels, a central figure in the Manhattan district attorney's hush money charges, finding that the ex-president's request was overbroad and barred by civil rights laws.
U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman urged a D.C. federal judge Friday to let her pursue a constitutional challenge to the law under which she has been suspended, and to reject her colleagues' contention that her case does not pass legal muster.
Following a modest uptick in February, the U.S. legal sector shed more jobs in March, with a loss of 3,000 jobs compared with the previous month, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A California state judge facing a plethora of ethics charges is now facing additional allegations related to his participation in an online debate and comments he made during a court hearing.
A New Jersey federal judge has agreed to reschedule the trial of two former Cognizant Technology Solutions executives accused of authorizing a bribe to an Indian official, answering the call by a Gibbons PC counsel who has another high-profile white-collar trial on his schedule the same day his Cognizant case client was also set to go before a jury.
The Supreme Court of North Carolina has a stacked calendar heading into spring arguments, from an appeal over Black-owned properties targeted for demolition to a law firm's attempt at dodging defamation claims over allegations of voter fraud.
Law360 Pulse talked with retired South Carolina state Judge Clifton B. Newman, who oversaw a financial crimes case against disgraced lawyer and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh, about his new role as a panelist for alternative dispute resolution service JAMS in Atlanta.
The legal industry marked the beginning of April with another busy week as law firms expanded their offerings and made new hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
A Manhattan federal judge has refused to step away from the case of a Seattle doctor accused of participating in a scheme to defraud the National Basketball Association's health plan, saying there was "no basis" for his bid to oust her after he took issue with the trial schedule and what he described as systemic barriers.
U.S. victims of terrorist attacks in Iraq warned the U.S. Supreme Court that forgoing review on whether a defunct Lebanese bank can claim sovereign immunity from allegations the bank funded Hezbollah would have negative implications on disputes involving foreign trade.