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A Black riverboat co-captain at the center of an Alabama riverfront brawl that drew national attention has been accused of misdemeanor assault in the melee by one of the white boaters charged in the fight. Court records show one of the white men accused of assaulting the co-captain during the August brawl filed a complaint […]

Donald Trump’s latest attack on the judge overseeing his high-profile civil fraud case in New York took a bizarre turn, with the former president sharing what appeared to be topless photos of 74-year-old Arthur Engoron on social media. In a now-deleted post on his platform Truth Social, Mr Trump shared a link to an article from The Gateway Pundit which showed two […]

In the last five years, injured workers reported that Seattle-based psychiatrist Dr. Douglas Robinson asked about the dates and frequency of sexual relations. One of the most often hired psychiatrists by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) in workplace injury cases received more than a dozen complaintsabout “inappropriate,” “unprofessional” and “sexually intrusive” lines of questioning during state-paid […]

Five jurisdictions are the first to announce that they intend to administer a new bar exam, which will replace the licensure test currently given to aspiring attorneys across the US. Bar admission agencies in Maryland, Missouri, and Oregon intend to first administer the NextGen bar exam in July 2026. Wyoming intends to first administer the exam […]

A federal jury convicted a former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Thursday of two counts of perjury after falsifying an application to withdraw retirement funds early during the Covid-19 pandemic in order to buy two vacation homes in Florida. Jurors took about seven hours to convict Marilyn Mosby, 43, on both counts of the indictment. The […]

The number of Americans with a criminal history has risen sharply over the past three decades.  Today, nearly one-third of the adult working age population has a criminal record.  In fact, so many Americans have a criminal record that counting them all is nearly impossible. According to a Department of Justice survey, state criminal history repositories […]

Four out of five criminal defendants can’t afford a lawyer, but in many places, the system promised to them by our state and federal constitutions is chronically in crisis. For example, in Montana, an all too familiar constitutional crisis is underway. Pretrial defendants who cannot afford a lawyer are languishing behind bars, awaiting the legal […]

Raymond Liddy — a former deputy state attorney general and a son of central Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy — has been disbarred nearly four years after his conviction in San Diego for possessing child pornography, the State Bar of California announced Monday. Liddy, a resident of Coronado, was convicted following a bench trial and […]

 Law graduates will be able to become licensed in Oregon without taking the bar exam, starting in May 2024. The Oregon Supreme Court on Tuesday approved an alternative licensing program that bar exam reformers hope will spur further innovation in other states. After law school, candidates will spend 675 hours working under the supervision of […]