The Illinois Supreme Court recently issued an order suspending an attorney for sixty days after faking an illness to avoid oral arguments before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Hazardous

In an Illinois Supreme Court order issued on March 14, 2014, lawyer, Reema Nicki Bajaj, consented to be suspended for three years and until further order for failing to disclose on her bar application her illegal work history as a prostitute. Failure

Antwan Peppers recently filed an ineffective assistance of counsel claim against the defense attorneys who represented him in his 2008 murder trial based on the attorneys’ failure to use Peppers’ alibi defense. 

In a recent decision weighing an attorney’s ethical duty of confidentiality against the government’s interest in encouraging “whistleblowers” to disclose unlawful conduct, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in favor of confidentiality.

After numerous victims of sexual assault from Missoula County, Montana complained that the county prosecutors declined to take action against alleged perpetrators, the DOJ launched an investigation into the matter.

Tennessee Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew ordered the change of a baby’s first name from “Messiah” to “Martin.” Name