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Houston, Texas, police said a lawyer was fatally shot by an angry McDonald’s customer on Saturday after intervening to calm the man down.

The Alabama woman who admitted faking her kidnapping, Carlee Russell, is expected to face charges in the case, according to her lawyer.

The Swedish Supreme Court has ruled to uphold the disbarring of a female lawyer who maintained a romantic relationship with a known gang leader she represented as a public defender.

Keir Starmer has been compared to communist dictators Vladimir Lenin and Fidel Castro by his Attorney General.

A Boston attorney whose name was once on People magazine’s list of most eligible bachelors has been charged with raping two victims, according to the New York Post.

A French lawyer, well-known for taking on cases in which he defended radical jihadists, has been arrested by French security services after being accused of helping to finance terrorist activity.

President Donald Trump reacted Tuesday to the news that celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was arrested for domestic violence.

President Donald Trump reacted Wednesday to the news that his former lawyer Michael Cohen betrayed him in a legal case.

A lawyer for Arizona candidate for U.S. Senate Martha McSally threatened to “pursue legal remedies” against cable television stations running a statewide ad supporting competing  Senate candidate Dr. Kelli Ward, but station managers refused to pull the ad.

The former CBS lawyer — who was fired for commenting that she was unsympathetic toward the “country music fans” who were victims of the Las Vegas shooting because they are often “Republican gun toters” — claims she is receiving online threats.

Hayley Geftman-Gold, who served as senior counsel for strategic transactions at CBS, was fired Monday afternoon by the network. In a social media post, Geftman-Gold wrote that, for partisan reasons, she is “not even sympathetic” to the 50-plus murdered and 400-plus hospitalized during Sunday’s shooting massacre in Las Vegas.

The lawyer for a Nebraska teacher accused of having birthday sex with a 16-year-old claims her client’s behavior stemmed from mental illness.

The success rate for prospective lawyers that took the California Bar Exam this July slid to just 43 percent receiving a passing score on the 2016 test.

“She only learned for the first time on Friday, from press reports, of the possibility that a laptop belonging to Mr. Weiner could contain emails of hers,” Huma Abedin’s lawyer Karen Dunn said in a statement.

An Orange County lawyer who represented Chinese birth tourism suspects was sentenced on Monday to 21 months in prison after helping Chinese nationals escape the United States after being designated material witnesses in the case.

Climate change is such a pressing, dangerous and universal threat that it should be made illegal under international law, a top barrister has told a conference of leading lawyers in London. Philippe Sands QC, an international law specialist and Professor

Cesar Vargas, 31, who lives on Staten Island, emigrated to the United States when he was five but has never obtained U.S. citizenship.

British soldiers have been placed in a straightjacket by rules governing interrogation, brought in to stop the avalanche of lawsuits against the taxpayer. A former interogator has told the Sunday Telegraph that one soldier was even investigated for touching a Taliban