It can be a valuable risk management tool for lawyers to take some autonomy to confirm the scope of the representation. If ...

Attorneys owe a fiduciary duty of loyalty and good faith to their clients, among others, which requires them to act solely for the client’s benefit. If an attorney violates this duty by engaging in ...

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She was sexually assaulted eight years ago, she says, but the memory of that horrific ordeal remains clear to Melissa Rogozinski. "It just happened so fast," she recalls. At the time, she was living ...

On Jan. 1, 2010, the New Jersey Supreme Court initiated a new program which mandated that every judge and attorney in the state complete 24 hours of continuing legal education instruction on a ...

A Buffalo attorney who nearly cost WUFO-AM radio $500,000 in an employment discrimination lawsuit was suspended this year from practicing law for two years, but his license was then immediately ...

A coalition of left-wing groups and law professors is aggressively filing ethics complaints against high-ranking government ...

HELENA, Mont. — A succession of controversies marks Republican Austin Knudsen's nearly four years as Montana attorney general. His office sided with a man who made an armed threat over a pandemic mask ...