A suburban Oklahoma City lawyer was removed from the courtroom on Tuesday during her arraignment on drug charges, reportedly because she was talking too much. Amy McTeer of Nichols Hills is charged with methamphetamine possession, unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia and public intoxication, NewsOK reports. A court officer told...
read moreIt’s been at least a year since Jose Garcia-Morales communicated with his public defenders, if he ever did. But Shelley Ajax and Moe Spencer must continue to represent the 28-year-old murder defendant, a Washington state court judge has ruled, denying their motion to withdraw on the basis that the attorney-client relationship...
read moreJacoby & Meyers may have failed in its personal appeal to a federal judge overseeing its suit seeking to pave the way for nonlawyers to invest in New York law firms. Jacoby had asserted it needs a judge with a “profile in courage to ensure that antiquated barriers” are cast aside. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan...
read moreA Pennsylvania attorney has been suspended from practice for one year because he failed to act promptly and sufficiently to deal with red flags concerning his law partner’s conversion of client settlement funds for his own personal use. Among other signs that should have alerted Lawrence L. Rubin was his partner’s...
read moreThe Oregon State Bar has assumed control of a personal injury law firm after receiving 19 complaints against the lawyer who runs it. A Deschutes County judge gave the bar control of the Bend-based law firm operated by Bryan Gruetter after reviewing client complaints, OPB News reports. The clients had submitted affidavits stating...
read moreBeijing-based King & Wood has almost 1,000 lawyers in 15 offices—but it never had lawyers with the surnames King or Wood as founding partners. Mark Schaub, who according to King & Wood’s website came to the firm in 2000 and was the first foreign lawyer to join, told Reuters that “there was no Mr. King and...
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