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A judge in Humboldt County, California, is facing an ethics complaint that accuses him of calling a public defender “Jewboy” and having “pantomimed something similar to a lap dance” on the wife of a different public defender.

The ABA Techshow 2024 opened at the Hyatt Regency Chicago on Wednesday, drawing legal professionals from around the world.

A Rochester, New York, man convicted of second-degree murder in October 2018 has been freed from a maximum-security prison in New York because he was held at the wrong prison before his trial.

The former chief financial officer of McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter has been charged with theft and failure to pay taxes in connection with his alleged embezzlement of more than $1.5 million from the law firm.

A consumer protection lawyer in Florida said he has filed more than 1,000 lawsuits alleging that debt collectors failed to follow laws governing debt collection.

Law firms returned to profitability in 2023 as “worked rates” accelerated throughout the year, according to the Law Firm Financial Index report for the fourth quarter of 2023 by the Thomson Reuters Institute.

A lawyer in Charlotte, North Carolina, put the knowledge that he gained at a fall conference to use when he visited a homeowner and averted a financial scam.

In Police & the Empire City: Race & the Origins of Modern Policing in New York, Matthew Guariglia looks at the New York City police from their founding in 1845 through the 1930s as

ABA President Mary Smith is asking the federal judiciary to drop the term “court-appointed master” from the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure because it is “a very poor term and a very poor description.”

The South Carolina Supreme Court is allowing the NAACP’s state conference to train nonlawyer volunteers to advise tenants as part of a three-year pilot program.