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He said that the defendant is "doing well in prison" and that the man feels it is a safer place for him. Mr McGarry said that his client seems "completely institutionalised". He said that his client wants to extend his prison sentence in order to spend more time rehabilitating himself and completing courses within the prison system. He said that prison courses take time for people to get enrolled in and complete, and a release would disrupt this process.

A former New York judge who joined Anderson Kill last month told Law360 that he made the move because of family considerations and a looming mandatory retirement when he turns 70 years old in a few years. But former Judge Louis L. Nock did not mention that he joined the law firm on the same day that New York ethics regulators agreed to drop ethics charges against him in return for his agreement to resign from the bench and never accept judicial office again,

A smelly, morbidly-obese married Long Island lawyer allegedly tormented his much younger lover for years - setting up secret cameras in her apartment, a tracker in her car, and a keystroke recorder on her computer. Ronald David Ingber allegedly manipulated the Bergen County woman until she was isolated from her family and dependent on him, then blasted out sexual photos and videos of her to friends and family when she tried to leave, she said in a lawsuit.

Palvindra Singh, 51, of Bremerton, Wash., was facing a misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter count alleging he caused the April 27, 2023 death of Juan Chan Saltay by speeding, leading to a five-car crash on Interstate 680 in Pleasanton. Singh was charged last year and was out of custody, hoping to complete a diversion program in lieu of criminal prosecution, court records show.

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione are seeking to dismiss some of the criminal charges brought against him in a federal indictment following the December 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, including the only count eligible for the death penalty. In documents filed at a Manhattan federal court on Saturday, defense attorneys for Mangione sought to dismiss a count of murder through the use of a firearm.

If you're a Biglaw associate in the fall of 2025, two things are probably true: (i) you're billing your life away while considering if a lateral move is right for you while the market is still hot, and (ii) you're eagerly waiting to receive news about your annual bonus (that may or may not include a special bonus on top), which may be right around the corner.

When he first learned that federal agents had detained Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil in the lobby of his university housing complex, Jameel Jaffer knew he was in for a fight. Jaffer is the director of a Columbia-affiliated institute devoted to the defense of the first amendment, and Khalil, a green card holder, had been a fixture at the pro-Palestinian encampments on campus. Months earlier, Jaffer's organization had hosted a symposium about the free speech rights of noncitizens.

were unlawfully fired as part of Kyndryl's efforts to eliminate foreign-born, non-white, disabled, and older workers from its work force, and replace them with younger, white, non-disabled, American-born workers.

The answer, Emily, is hell yeah. It can be done. It is being done. There's a little something called the McDade Amendment, passed in 1998, that actually requires federal government lawyers to follow both the ethics rule of the state where they're licensed to practice and federal regulations. That means there are rules that actually prohibit DOJ attorneys from participating, for instance, in cases where they have a personal or political relationship (imagine!)

"A disclosure, even with redactions, will reveal whether a security clearance was granted with or without conditions or a waiver," DCSA argued. Ultimately, DCSA failed to prove that Musk risked "embarrassment or humiliation" not only if the public learned what specific conditions or waivers applied to Musk's clearances but also if there were any conditions or waivers at all, Cote wrote.

"A lot of people quit - they find it hard," said Justin Paperny, a former inmate whose consultancy, White Collar Advice, advises clients before and after sentencing.

Rightwing conspiracy fabulist Alex Jones has petitioned the US supreme court to block a massive defamation judgment imposed after he argued that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in which 20 children and six adults were killed was a hoax. In a filing to the US high court, Jones asked the justices to act immediately to prevent his website InfoWars from being handed over to the satirical news site The Onion.

But prosecutors argued that her head trauma must have been caused by shaken baby syndrome, a diagnosis popularised in the late 1990s as evidence of physical abuse in infants and toddlers. But that diagnosis has been increasingly rejected, as doctors and medical researchers point out that the symptoms of shaken baby syndrome namely, bleeding or swelling in the eyes or brain can be caused by other conditions. Roberson's defence team has argued that Nikki suffered from chronic pneumonia in the lead-up to her death, and the medications she was given, including codeine, contributed to her death.

Kirkland & Ellis is recognized as one of the nation's greatest law firms. Not only does the firm offer a compelling combination of prestige, profitability, and pay, but it usually shatters the market on partners in a huge way - but not this year. In 2025, the firm has decided to stay quiet about something Biglaw firms usually love to shout from the rooftops. As Law.com reports, the Chicago-based powerhouse won't be publicly releasing its annual partner class announcement, "marking [a] strategy shift."

Meta Platforms Inc. violated federal and state law by knowingly allowing-and profiting-from scam impersonation ads on its social media websites, a class action filed in a California federal court says.

"The fact of the matter is that almost everyone over the age of 18 needs some estate planning documents," he said. "It may not be anything fancy, but having documents can spare your family a lot of financial and emotional suffering at a time that may already be trying."

Second Circuit judges were perplexed by a Manhattan landlord's request that the court declare unconstitutional a New York City law requiring landlords who participate in Section 8 housing to allow searches of their premises. The plaintiff-the owner of a 48-unit residential apartment building-is appealing the dismissal of his case asserting the law violates his Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.

South Carolina law enforcement officials say as of Monday there's no evidence that someone intentionally set the home of a state court judge on fire....Mark Keel, chief of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), said in a Monday statement that agents "have preliminarily found there is no evidence to support a pre-fire explosion." He said the investigation is ongoing.

At the end of the day, the simple sadness of this case is that you've got John O'Keefe, who died tragically, and the family of John O'Keefe doesn't have answers, and they've focused the spotlight, we believe, on the wrong person.

Prosecutors will appeal against a court's decision to throw out a terrorism charge against the Kneecap rapper Liam Og O hAnnaidh. The 27-year-old was accused of displaying a flag in support of the proscribed terrorist organisation Hezbollah at a gig in November last year until a technical error in the way he was charged led to the chief magistrate ruling he could not try the case.

These facts are not in dispute: In a span of four years and nine months, gang member William Arnold Armendariz III shot to death five people in three separate attacks, including the slayings of three people at a Banning cemetery in August 2020 as they held a memorial birthday party for a relative. Five years before that, just after midnight on Nov. 7, 2015, Armendariz had gunned down 51-year-old Charles Neazer on 5th Street in Banning.

MARTINEZ - A Concord man in his late 30s has been sentenced to 13 years in state prison for raping a 13-year-old girl, a crime he allegedly tried to cover up by threatening to kill the victim or have her deported. Macario Cucul-Maaz, 39, pleaded no contest to a child rape charge and was sentenced in late June, court records show. He is currently housed at North Kern State Prison.

Barrister Simeon Burke, a brother of controversial anti-transgender schoolteacher Enoch, has finally found a "master" to apprentice with in the Law Library.

A Dublin garda has been charged with perverting the course of justice and unlawfully disclosing confidential information about the death of a person to a third party. The officer, in his 30s, appeared at Dublin District Court, where Judge Treasa Kelly acceded to a request from defence solicitor Padraig O'Donovan to impose reporting restrictions on his client's identity and address being published.

The hits keep coming for Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. Reports of a mass lateral defection from the firm's collateralized loan obligation and asset-backed lending team have now been confirmed, with Orrick taking in a 37-lawyer team from the firm - including 10 partners - in one of the most sweeping group lateral moves the Biglaw world has seen this year. This will give Orrick an immediate boost in one of its most profitable practice areas, and deal year another serious blow to Cadwalader's already shake sense of stability.

North Wales Police has been ordered to disclose the reasons for stopping a UK lawyer who represented Hamas and seizing the contents of mobile phone to closed-door court hearing. Justice Martin Chamberlain said that he did not accept that North Wales Police could simply assert there was a lawful basis for stopping and copying the contents of solicitor Fahad Ansari's phone, without saying what the reason was.

I work in a very strictly run call center. Shift start and end times, breaks, and even when we're allowed to go to the restroom are all highly regulated. Since we handle credit card and other confidential information, we are not allowed to use cellphones on the floor. The other day while taking one of my bathroom breaks, I took out my phone and responded to a text message while "doing my business." When I returned to my station, a supervisor greeted me with a write-up in hand.

Fitzsimmons, the North Andover officer, faces one charge of assault with a dangerous weapon stemming from an incident that occurred on June 30. An armed confrontation took place in Fitzsimmons's home after some of her colleagues arrived there to serve her a restraining order filed by her fiancé. According to a police report, Fitzsimmons attempted to shoot one of the other officers and was subsequently shot in the chest by a colleague.

According to the order, the court finds the settlements fair, reasonable, and adequate, and that they were negotiated at arm's-length by experienced counsel acting in good faith, including in several cases, mediation with a nationally recognized and highly experienced mediator. The order also notes that there has been adequate opportunity for discovery for experienced counsel to evaluate the claims and risks at this stage of the litigation, and that the class representatives have adequately represented the classes.