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Guled Muhumed is one of the Somali detainees reporting abuse Guled Muhumed, pictured here with his daughter, is one of the Somali detainees who have reported abuse and denial of medical care in the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Courtesy family photo ...

In particular, there are three characteristics of good lawyers that, coincidentally or not, are characteristics missing from government right now. First, being a good lawyer means being a good negotiator. Portrayals of attorneys on television potentially mislead the public into thinking lawyers are all about big ...

In recent days, Cosby's lawyers have asked O'Neill to ban anyone from wearing pins, flowers, posters, hats or anything that might influence jurors, not only in the courtroom where the trial will take place, but also in the hallways and public areas where jurors might be present and potentially influenced.

Jordanian lawyers are boycotting the kingdom's State Security Court in protest against the arrest of activists who took part in ongoing demonstrations triggered by the end of bread subsidies on Jan. 27. The Jordanian Bar Association said in a March 8 statement that the arrests are a violation of the freedom ...

The account from top Pentagon officials was an apparent response to accusations that the lawyers' work prompted their dismissals. After the firings, lawyers representing detainees charged with aiding the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, voiced suspicion that they might have been ousted because of a policy ...

"I think his lawyers have done a disservice to him, frankly," Gowdy said. "I think allowing it to be framed as an investigation into collusion and collusion only, conflating the [former FBI Deputy Director] Andy McCabe firing, conflating, frankly, the dossier. This investigation would exist without a dossier. And I've ...

SAN DIEGO — The defense team for a Marine accused in the fatal stabbing of a fellow serviceman on a California Marine Corps base argued Thursday that the death was a tragic accident and the two friends were playing around with a knife. Pfc. Raymond W. Begay faces charges of murder and obstruction ...

Harper Lee was a literary celebrity. Aaron Sorkin is a screenwriting superstar. And now the two — by proxy — are locked in a battle over who should shape the content in Mr. Sorkin's stage adaptation of Ms. Lee's famous novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Ms. Lee, before she died, agreed to allow Mr. Sorkin to ...

I don't understand how these busy lawyers have so much time to appear on TV. Totally part of the job. Trump just hired Joe diGenova, who's currently famous for having argued on Fox that a secret cabal of F.B.I. agents created the whole Russia investigation to “frame Donald Trump with a falsely created ...

Lawyers for the mystery woman who won a $560 million Powerball jackpot in New Hampshire in January will officially claim her windfall on Tuesday and announce a “major donation” that she's making to local non-profits, lottery officials said in a statement. Attorneys for the woman, dubbed Jane Doe in ...

Lawyers for a Mexican journalist being held in a U.S. immigrant detention center are demanding his release, saying President Trump's frequent attacks ... In a writ of habeas corpus filed in a Texas district court Tuesday, lawyers for the journalist, Emilio Gutierrez Soto, said he and his son, who is also being ...

Next month's test case involving plaintiffs chosen by their lawyers is expected to last about six weeks. A second trial to follow weeks later involves a plaintiff household chosen by Murphy-Brown's lawyers. New trials then would start every month until the cases are decided, dismissed or settlements are ...

Another teenage survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre has said he plans to sue: The Broward School Board on Monday received a demand letter from lawyers representing the family of injured student Kyle Laman. The letter from the Boca Raton-based Berman Law Group tells ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Every lawyer in the state of Utah is abreast of a big blunder. Monday afternoon, more than 11,000 lawyers got an email from the Utah Bar Association about an upcoming conference in St. George and if you scroll to the bottom, there's an image of a woman's breasts. Attorney Peter Richins ...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — The #MeToo movement is making it tougher for Bill Cosby to get a fair trial, his lawyers asserted Tuesday, as they fought in a pretrial hearing here to prevent 19 additional accusers from testifying at his retrial on sexual assault charges. Prosecutors say the 19 accounts would establish ...

Like medical advice or the answers to HQ trivia questions, you need to be careful where you get your legal advice. Twenty-odd years into the internet, people still make terrible decisions based on a faulty understanding of the law. We asked several lawyers to share the one thing they wish everyone knew ...