Minneapolis police officer Tony Adams faces charges of false imprisonment after he handcuffed and detained two juveniles in his car earlier this summer.

Stork Craft Cribs Faces Class Action

Ohio Employment Law alleged violations of Ohio labor laws including overtime pay, harassment and discrimination.

Washington Employment Law alleged violations of Washington state labor laws including overtime pay, harassment and discrimination.

Jose Dominguez, 19, was killed in a the night of November 21, 2009 after he was struck by a vehicle while walking in Loma Linda, California. According to a news report in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, San Bernardino County

For a number of lawyers across the country, a 2005 federal law requiring them to advertise as a debt relief agency -- regardless of whether they offer sporadic or regular bankruptcy advice to clients -- irritates like a pair of

When federal prosecutors dropped all charges Wednesday in its money-laundering case against prominent Miami attorney Ben Kuehne and two co-defendants, the Justice Department left in its tracks a string of courtroom failures. Kuehne said his case leaves a legacy that

As allegations of massive fraud at Canopy Financial surfaced last week, the startup's outside counsel at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati moved quickly -- to scrub its Web site of any mention of the company. It doesn't mean that the

Love it or hate it, Microsoft PowerPoint has infiltrated law firms and become a tool for creating everything from courtroom presentations to client pitches. But how do you compare different versions of PowerPoint slides? IT writer John K. Waters shows

Federal prosecutor Daniel Zachem has a lot riding on a pro se civil suit against him that alleges he participated in a conspiracy to violate the rights of a Washington, D.C., grand juror. But the suit has far-reaching implications for

In a sign of economic improvement, Chadbourne & Parke confirmed Wednesday that the firm plans to award a lump sum payment in early 2010 that would give back to associates and staff money the firm previously cut from their paychecks.

Employment lawyers are hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will resolve a conflict in the federal circuits over the so-called cat's paw theory, which says that an employer is liable for discrimination when a final decision-maker is influenced by a lower-level

A New York judge has been censured for following a motorist for more than a mile, pulling the man over by flashing his high beams and using a badge to persuade the driver to turn himself in to police to

The federal courts were already divided over the rights of independent contractors to sue for discrimination. The split widened when the 9th Circuit ruled this month that a doctor whose contract was terminated after a hospital learned of his sickle

A New Jersey blogger scheduled to go on trial on charges that he threatened three federal judges in hate-filled postings has subpoenaed the state's governor-elect to testify on his behalf. Harold "Hal" Turner claims that he was a federal government

Plaintiffs lawyers are slapping public companies with securities class actions months or years after the alleged fraud came to light as they turn their attention away from cases related to the financial meltdown. The delayed filings are a shift from

The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by a former Curtiss-Wright employee whose $10.6 million sex discrimination judgment was reversed because she shared confidential company records with her lawyer. The issue is whether an employee's acquiring

Family law attorneys call it a first: a babysitter winning custody of a child. Now the mother's lawyer has won a rehearing -- just in time for the holidays. In an emergency hearing, the same judge who last month gave

The law career of disgraced Florida attorney and fraud suspect Scott Rothstein is over. The Florida Supreme Court disbarred Rothstein Wednesday at his request, a day after the governor suspended him from the 4th District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating

A receptionist for a Florida law firm that provides legal assistance to low-income customers has been charged with stealing about $232,000 through two separate scams, one involving the receptionist's use of clients' Social Security numbers.