A federal court of appeals has upheld the admonishment of a Massachusetts lawyer whose “groundless” accusations of criminality and misconduct had opposing counsel literally crying on the stand.

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An injured baseball fan usually has about as much chance of winning a negligence suit as my Cleveland Indians have of winning a World Series.

But the Idaho Supreme Court just gave the go ahead to the personal injury action of a spectator who lost an eye to a foul ball.

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The NFL’s standard arbitration clause took a double hit this morning when a Missouri court refused to enforce it against two former employees of the Kansas City Chiefs who sued the team for age discrimination.

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A disabled man committed an assault with a “dangerous weapon” when he whacked a former friend in the head with his wooden cane, an Iowa court decided earlier this month.

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A couple of enterprising Wisconsin lawyers set it up so that a link to their firm’s website would appear whenever a prospective client entered their competitors’ last names in Internet search engines.

Thursday, a state court decided that the clever scheme didn’t violate Wisconsin privacy law.

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A North Carolina court decided Tuesday that a mother should not have had her child visitation limited to video chats via Skype after losing custody of her son due to neglect.

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The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday suspended an attorney who failed to disclose two pending contingent fee cases as assets in his divorce.

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Three Texas personal injury lawyers will have to pay up after a tax court decided yesterday that they invested hard-earned fees in tax shelters that couldn’t pass the Internal Revenue Service’s smell test.

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A Washington lawyer claims she lost her job because she objected to using perjured testimony to win a client’s lawsuit.

This month, a state court ruled that her former law firm could not be liable for wrongful discharge – even assuming the truth of her allegations.

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Lynn Dion will have plenty of time to learn how to live without a cellphone glued to her ear.

That’s because she’ll be spending the next 18 to 36 months in a New Hampshire prison for running down and killing a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

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