The Nebraska Supreme Court has disbarred an Omaha lawyer who the court says has exhibited a pattern of deception. In a decision released Friday, the court said 41-year-old William Bouda II had neglected legal matters entrusted to him, made misrepresentations …
A New York City lawyer has been suspended for six months for trying to get out of a speeding ticket by falsely claiming that a New Jersey trooper hurled an anti-Semitic slur during the traffic stop. The New York Post …
A prominent Russian lawyer said Wednesday he will challenge the powers of a regional aviation watchdog following a crash that killed an entire Russian professional ice hockey team and other recent air disasters that have raised concerns about the nation’s …
A federal grand jury has indicted a 67-year-old New Orleans attorney on one count of mail fraud. U.S. Attorney Jim Letten says Robert Hackett represented professional athletes in their workers’ compensation claims and defrauded them of about $462,615. Letten said …
An Austin attorney has filed a lawsuit claiming he’s had to end his law practice because of an injury he suffered while attending a concert at the South by Southwest festival earlier this year. The Austin American-Statesman reports that attorney …
A lawyer in Mexico for a leading U.S. drug manufacturer, which promotes its global anticorruption policy, offered to pay an opposing expert in a business lawsuit if he would leave the country on a key court date to undermine the …