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Mich. Panel Backs Contempt Orders Against Disbarred Atty
A disbarred northern Michigan attorney accused of mishandling trust funds properly faced contempt sanctions for abruptly leaving a Zoom hearing and failing to comply with orders to transfer money and provide accounting, a Michigan appellate panel ruled, even as it found the trial judge later violated her Fifth Amendment rights during questioning.
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Anti-ABA Trend May Cut Law School Costs, But With A Price
Some law schools may become more affordable, increasing the supply of attorneys, as a growing number of states nix the requirement that aspiring lawyers graduate from American Bar Association-accredited schools. But those new attorneys could be left with a patchwork system that limits where they can practice.
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Ga. Atty Seeks Judge's Recusal From Discrimination Suit
A lawyer said a Georgia federal judge should recuse herself because she has shown favor to the defendants through her decisions in a proposed class action alleging a pattern of racial discrimination in the attorney's State Bar of Georgia's discipline case.
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DOJ Says Pardon Atty's Ethics Case Belongs In Federal Court
A former interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., is urging the D.C. federal court to maintain jurisdiction over his ethics case, arguing the attorney watchdog misinterpreted precedent amid its "frontal, First Amendment-based attack on the investigative discretion" of the U.S. attorney's office.
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Michigan Dems Noncommittal On Trump's Judicial Pick
Michigan's two Democratic senators played it coy on Tuesday when asked if they would support the district court nominee for their state that the president announced the night before.
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Trump Gets Time For Justices To Review $83M Carroll Verdict
President Donald Trump can delay enforcement of the $83.3 million verdict for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll while he appeals the Second Circuit's en banc refusal to rehear his appeal, as long as he puts up $7.5 million in interest that may accrue during Supreme Court proceedings, the panel said Monday.
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Fired Immigration Judge Says Trump Can't Skirt Bias Laws
A former immigration judge urged a D.C. federal court not to throw out her bias suit challenging her firing, arguing the U.S. Department of Justice was pushing the "breathtaking proposition" that the president was empowered to commit unlawful discrimination.
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Weinstein Accuser Credible, Jury Told As 3rd NY Trial Ends
A Manhattan jury heard closing arguments Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein's third New York rape trial, with a prosecutor arguing that aspiring actress Jessica Mann "has absolutely no motive to lie" about an assault she said took place in 2013.
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CORRECTED: Senate Advances 13 US Attorneys In En Bloc Vote
The Senate voted 46-45, along party lines, to advance the nomination of 13 U.S. attorneys on Monday as part of a larger nominations package. Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the status of the nominees in the Senate.
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Justices Clear Way For Ala.'s Gerrymandered Map In Midterms
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opened the door for Alabama to use electoral maps that the justices previously found unconstitutionally diluted Black residents' voting power, following the court's recent ruling limiting the Voting Rights Act's use in challenging racial discrimination in congressional redistricting.
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Ohio Public Safety Director Tapped To Replace Outgoing AG
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday selected Andy Wilson, the head of the state's public safety department, to replace state Attorney General Dave Yost, who recently announced he will be stepping down next month to take a job with a conservative legal advocacy group.
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'I Am The Judge,' Atty Facing Apple Sanctions Bid Told
A California federal judge overseeing discovery in a consumer antitrust case against Google LLC rebuked the plaintiffs' attorney Monday as he fought a sanctions motion by former defendant Apple Inc., reminding him "I am the judge in this case" and that his requests must "meet the standard that I set forth."
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Trump Taps 6 Judges, Including Picks Needing Blue Slips
President Donald Trump announced six judicial nominees on Monday, including picks for the Eighth and Tenth Circuits and two district court picks that needed support from Democrats.
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Trading Scheme Is A 'Wake-Up Call' For BigLaw Compliance
The breadth of a decade-long insider trading scheme prosecutors say was fueled by stolen BigLaw merger information should jolt firms to reexamine their practices to close gaps in internal security, experts told Law360, even if totally eliminating bad actors is nearly impossible.
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NY Ethics Panel Finds US Attorney Committed Misconduct
The New York Attorney Grievance Committee has found that President Donald Trump's pick leading the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York engaged in "professional misconduct" last summer, according to a letter released on Monday.
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Ex-NJ Judge Suspended From Law Practice Over Harassment
A former New Jersey municipal court judge has been handed a three-month suspension from the practice of law by the state Supreme Court for sexually harassing female court staff members at a holiday party in 2023.
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Pa. Atty Suspended Over Marketing Of Non-Atty Mediator
A retired attorney and owner of a divorce mediation firm has been suspended from practicing in Pennsylvania for six months after a disciplinary investigation found she had misleadingly marketed one of her company's employees as an attorney-mediator.
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Pennsylvania Justice Quits 'Changed' Democratic Party
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht announced Monday that he's leaving the Democratic Party to become an independent, citing concerns over what he views as growing antisemitism on the left of the political spectrum.
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NJ AG's Office Avoids Defense Of Prosecutor In Ethics Case
The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General does not have to defend a county-level prosecutor in an ethics case over allegations he withheld exculpatory evidence, a state appeals court ruled in a precedential decision Monday.
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Disbarred Atty Can't Escape Tax Evasion Case, 2nd Circ. Says
A disbarred English attorney who assisted the heirs of an American businessman in evading taxation on their inheritance cannot use an "extraordinary" post-conviction remedy to overturn part of the verdict and a $4 million restitution bill, the Second Circuit ruled Friday.
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Ex-Wachtell Lipton Atty Tied To Stolen BigLaw Info Trades
A former Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz attorney who later worked for investment bank LionTree LLC is an unindicted co-conspirator in a sweeping alleged insider trading scheme that involved stolen information from several prominent law firms, according to a review of publicly available information.
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Prosecutor Faces Probe Into Withheld Immigration Case Info
The lead assistant federal prosecutor for Rhode Island's civil division is under investigation for allegedly withholding information in an immigration case, according to an order from the Ocean State's top federal judge.
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Alleged Would-Be Trump Assassin Aims To DQ Pirro, Blanche
The California man accused of an attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner last month is seeking to disqualify U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche from handling his case as they may be witnesses or victims in the matter.
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Top Atty In DOJ Appeal Over Law Firm Exec Orders To Depart
The lead federal prosecutor on the Trump administration's appeal to reinstate executive orders targeting four law firms is stepping down from his government role at the end of May, he publicly announced this week.
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Legal Industry Bounces Back, Gaining 2,400 Jobs In April
The legal sector is once again on a positive trajectory, gaining 2,400 jobs last month, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Expert Analysis
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.