A boost in pay has prompted many criminal defense attorneys in central Maine to return to the rosters that judges use to appoint legal counsel to represent criminal defendants who are too poor to hire one. The Maine Legislature agreed earlier this week to nearly double the hourly wage paid […] Read More
Good afternoon. Here’s the latest news you need to know in Chicago. It’s about a five-minute read that will brief you on today’s biggest stories. — Matt Moore (@MattKenMoore) This afternoon will be partly sunny with a high near 56 degrees. Tonight will be cloudy with a low near 33. […] Read More
Attorneys who have been following the six-week-long Alex Murdaugh double-murder trial say the outcome remains uncertain, but that a guilty verdict or hung jury is likely. “It could come down to the gut feeling of a single juror,” Greenville attorney Cindy Crick said. “I do not think this jury will […] Read More
The charred remains of a home burned in the Santiam Fire near Gates, Ore., Sept. 9, 2020. Bradley W. Parks / OPB As devastating wildfires began to spread in Oregon the day after Labor Day 2020, PacifiCorp senior transmission engineer Tyler Jones texted his co-worker. “This weather is crazy man,” […] Read More
SUNSET HILLS — City officials here have hired another law firm, without capping expenses, as their fight to keep an area property owner from rezoning a strip of South Lindbergh Boulevard stretches into its sixth year. A home on Court Drive in June 2011 sat empty after a December 2010 […] Read More
More private attorneys have stepped up to represent indigent clients since Maine lawmakers voted this month to nearly double the hourly pay they will receive over the next four months. But advocates for the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services, the independent state-funded group that provides legal services to people […] Read More
Three Miami Attorneys on Ballot Vying for City Commissioner Seat | Daily Business Review Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2023/02/27/three-miami-attorneys-on-ballot-vying-for-city-commissioner-seat/ Credit: niyazz/Adobe Stock NEWS Martin Glenn Zilber of Krinzman Huss Lubetsky Feldman & Hotte, is a former Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge hoping to clinch the job. Also running on the ballot are […] Read More
Alec Baldwin The criminal case against Alec Baldwin is heating up with testy exchanges between prosecutors and the legal team defending the actor. Baldwin’s attorneys filed a motion last week taking aim at the 1st Judicial District attorney’s Office and its special prosecutor, claiming emails and public statements unfairly criticized […] Read More
FILE- Kyle Rittenhouse looks back as attorneys discuss items in the motion for mistrial presented by his defense at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Attorneys for a man shot and injured by Rittenhouse during a protest in 2020 are asking a federal judge […] Read More
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys for a man shot and injured by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest in 2020 are asking a federal judge to give them more time to serve Rittenhouse with a civil lawsuit, alleging that he is purposefully trying to evade them. Attorneys for Gaige Grosskreutz filed […] Read More
