FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Someone is booked into jail for murder, and then released. Some people find this unfathomable. First, it’s not murder until there’s a conviction. Second, the Constitution ...

“I don’t appreciate being misled,” said a New York judge after seeing an AI avatar used to represent a defendant. A defendant in a New York appeals court has been slammed by a judge for using an ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Defense attorneys involved in California multi-defendant product liability lawsuits are familiar with the challenge of properly balancing the need to preserve their clients’ defenses with the ...

Defendant as Plaintiff’s Expert Witness: Part 2 In Part 2 of his two-part series, Robert Genis explores how plaintiffs can examine defendants as expert witnesses, including the breadth of permissible ...

Under the Lanham Act, a plaintiff who prevails on a trademark infringement claim may be entitled to recover the “defendant’s profits” as damages. The Supreme Court in Dewberry Group, Inc. v. Dewberry ...

A Black defendant has received a new trial in a Michigan court after a district judge, who is white, said that the defendant “looks like a criminal.” The Washington Post reported that in a 3-0 ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Moments after a defendant in a felony battery case tried to convince a Nevada judge that he was turning his violent past around and didn’t need to be locked up, his sentencing went ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

In Part I of his two-part series, Bob Genis reviews how the plaintiff s in negligence and malpractice cases can strategically require the defendant to appear at trial during the plaintiff’s direct ...