Larry H. Parker, an accident and personal injury lawyer whose television commercials promised he’d “fight for you” and became staples in living rooms across Los Angeles, died on March 6 in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. He was 75. His death was confirmed by his son, Justin Parker, who did not cite the cause. Over the […]
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As Trump’s Criminal Trial Approaches, He May Be His Own Worst Enemy
Donald J. Trump was minutes away from being grilled under oath by the New York attorney general and he was itching to talk. To fend off the state’s fraud investigation, the former president insisted on answering every question, believing he alone knew what to say. But his lawyer at the time, Ronald P. Fischetti, directed […]
Read MoreTexts Show Witness Readily Helped Build a Case to Disqualify Trump Prosecutors
Terrence Bradley, an Atlanta-area lawyer, had been billed as the star witness in the effort to disqualify Fani T. Willis, the district attorney leading the election interference case against former President Donald J. Trump in Georgia. But when Mr. Bradley took the stand this week — and twice earlier this month — he was a […]
Read MoreAfter Testimony in Atlanta, Willis Receives Both Praise and Condemnation
It has been a rare point of consensus about the case brought by Georgia prosecutors against former President Donald J. Trump: the Fulton County district attorney, Fani T. Willis, probably made a mistake by having a romantic relationship with a co-worker. But the agreement ends there. As people in Atlanta and its suburbs digested gripping […]
Read MoreAn Explosive Hearing in Trump’s Georgia Election Case
The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Mike Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Diana Nguyen, Marion […]
Read MoreWillis Prepares to Take Witness Stand for Second Day in Trump Georgia Case
Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, will take the witness stand for a second day of questioning Friday morning as a hearing continues over whether her romantic relationship with the special prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case presents a conflict of interest. In the hearing, which will resume at 9 a.m., the […]
Read MoreHe Grew Up in the Shadow of the ‘Wolf of Wall Street.’ Then He Got Into Debt Settlement.
In the early 1980s, 19-year-old Jordan Belfort — who would go on to become known as the Wolf of Wall Street, a title he bestowed on himself in a tell-all memoir — had a fortuitous encounter on Jones Beach, on Long Island, with another teenager selling ice cream named Stephen Drescher. The two became friends. […]
Read MoreTrump Co-Defendant Suggests Georgia Prosecutors Lied About Relationship Timing
A lawyer for one of former President Donald J. Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election case suggested on Friday that the two prosecutors leading the case had lied about when their romantic relationship started. The defense lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, said that a witness she hoped to put on the stand could testify that the romantic […]
Read MoreLawyer for Colorado Voters Faced Tough Questions From His Former Bosses
It would be a daunting task for anyone making his first argument before the Supreme Court. As the lawyer representing a group of Colorado voters seeking to block former President Donald J. Trump from the ballot, Jason Murray, 38, stood before a skeptical majority in a high-stakes argument that could shape the course of the […]
Read MoreNew Murder Trial for Alex Murdaugh? A Judge Will Soon Decide.
At the climax of one of the most closely watched trials in South Carolina history, the packed courtroom was silent except for one woman: the court clerk, who read the guilty verdicts aloud in March 2023 that put Alex Murdaugh, a prominent lawyer, in prison for life for the murder of his wife and son. […]
Read MoreA Death Row Lawyer Blunders. Must His Client Pay the Price?
Joseph Gamboa, a death row inmate in Texas, says his court-appointed lawyer robbed him of the chance to challenge his murder conviction in federal court. Among other things, court records show, the lawyer ignored evidence supplied by Mr. Gamboa, filed a cut-and-paste habeas corpus petition that still bore the name of an earlier client and […]
Read MoreFani Willis Faces Upheaval in Trump Georgia Inquiry
Nearly three years after she began investigating former President Donald J. Trump and his allies, Fani T. Willis is facing the biggest test of her handling of the landmark election interference case. Ms. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., was accused this week of being romantically involved with the lead prosecutor she hired […]
Read MoreMichael Cohen Used Fake Cases Cited by A.I. to Seek an End to Court Supervision
Michael D. Cohen, the onetime fixer for former President Donald J. Trump, said in newly unsealed court papers that he had mistakenly given his lawyer bogus legal citations after the artificial intelligence program Google Bard cooked them up for him. The fictitious citations were then used in a motion provided to a Manhattan federal judge. […]
Read MoreClarence Thomas’s Clerks: An ‘Extended Family’ With Reach and Power
In late August, amid a rising outcry over revelations that Justice Clarence Thomas had received decades of undisclosed gifts and free luxury travel, a lawyer in Chicago fired off an email to her fellow former Thomas clerks. “Many of us have been asked recently about the justice,” wrote the lawyer, Taylor Meehan. “In response, there’s […]
Read MoreI Clerked for Justice O’Connor. She Was My Hero, but I Worry About Her Legacy.
When I learned that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor had died, I felt not just the loss of a world historical figure but also the loss of someone who formed a part of my identity. As a young woman, I was in awe of Justice O’Connor. Her presence on the Supreme Court offered an answer to […]
Read MoreTrump’s Georgia Lawyer, Steven Sadow, May Soon Drop His Quiet Strategy
Steven H. Sadow, the lead lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump in his Georgia criminal case, has been praised by the Atlanta rapper T.I. — one of Mr. Sadow’s former clients — as “probably the best criminal defense attorney of his time,” a man with “a slight hint of genius.” If so, much of […]
Read MoreAmerica Needs a Pro-Democracy Conservative Legal Establishment
American democracy, the Constitution and the rule of law are the righteous causes of our times, and the nation’s legal profession is obligated to support them. But with the acquiescence of the larger conservative legal movement, these pillars of our system of governance are increasingly in peril. The dangers will only grow should Donald Trump […]
Read MoreTrump’s Allies Want a New Breed of Lawyer if He Returns to Power
Close allies of Donald J. Trump are preparing to populate a new administration with a more aggressive breed of right-wing lawyer, dispensing with traditional conservatives who they believe stymied his agenda in his first term. The allies have been drawing up lists of lawyers they view as ideologically and temperamentally suited to serve in a […]
Read MoreTrump’s Lawyers Should Have Known Better
At a pivotal moment during one of the Watergate hearings in 1973, President Richard Nixon’s counsel, John Dean, asked a question that still resonates: “How in God’s name could so many lawyers get involved in something like this?” In the aftermath of Nixon’s resignation, the issue posed by Mr. Dean’s bracing question triggered a revolution […]
Read MoreThe Kids of Rutherford County, Episode 2: ‘What the Hell Are You People Doing?’
Credits “The Kids of Rutherford County” is a production of Serial and The New York Times in partnership with ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio. Reported and hosted by Meribah KnightAdditional reporting by Ken Armstrong at ProPublicaProduced by Daniel GuillemetteAdditional production by Michelle NavarroEdited by Julie Snyder and Jen GuerraAdditional editing by Anita Badejo, Sarah Blustain, […]
Read MoreThe Challenges Facing Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers
On the second day of Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial this month, one of the lawyers for the cryptocurrency mogul delivered an emphatic message to the jury. Mr. Bankman-Fried is not a criminal, the lawyer declared, and every decision that led to the collapse of his FTX crypto exchange had been made in “good faith.” That […]
Read MoreTrump’s Lawyers Are Going Down. Is He?
On Tuesday morning, Jenna Ellis became the third Donald Trump-allied lawyer to plead guilty in Fulton County, Ga., to state criminal charges related to Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. She joins Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro in similar pleas, with each of them receiving probation and paying […]
Read MoreThe Lawyers Now Turning on Trump
Richard Fausset contributed reporting. The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Mike Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle […]
Read MoreTrump Lawyer Acknowledged Political Agenda in Election Suit, Emails Show
On Dec. 24, 2020, Kenneth Chesebro and other lawyers fighting to reverse President Donald J. Trump’s election defeat were debating whether to file litigation contesting Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in Wisconsin, a key swing state. Mr. Chesebro argued there was little doubt that the litigation would fail in court — he put the odds […]
Read MoreJoran van der Sloot Expected to Plead Guilty in Natalee Holloway Extortion Case
Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch national linked to the 2005 overseas disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, is expected to plead guilty this week to extorting the missing Alabama teenager’s mother, Beth Holloway, a lawyer for Ms. Holloway said. Mr. van der Sloot, 36, had been in Peru serving a prison sentence for murder when […]
Read MoreOklahoma Judge Exchanged 500 Text Messages During Murder Trial
An Oklahoma judge who exchanged 500 text messages with her bailiff during a murder trial — mocking the physical appearance of lawyers, jurors and witnesses and deriding prosecutors — should be removed from the bench, the state’s top judge said. In a court filing on Tuesday, M. John Kane IV, the chief justice of the […]
Read More‘Don’t Do That Again’: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers Under Fire From Judge
Three days into Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan’s warnings to the defense had become unmistakable. Judge Kaplan, who is presiding over the high-profile white collar fraud case, repeatedly told Mr. Bankman-Fried’s lawyers to stop repeating themselves. Over and over, he directed them to rephrase their questions. […]
Read MoreTrump’s Legal Defense Effort Comes Under Financial Strain
The call came out of the blue. A lawyer representing former President Donald J. Trump in the investigation into his handling of classified documents reached out, unsolicited, to a former employee of Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate who was about to face questioning. “It’s my understanding that you got a grand jury subpoena,” the lawyer, John […]
Read MoreThe Lawyers Sam Bankman-Fried Once Trusted Are Drawing Criticism
Just before FTX collapsed in November, one of its outside lawyers at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell emailed a colleague at another firm, insisting that the cryptocurrency exchange’s finances were stable. Rumors of FTX’s demise were “silliness,” the lawyer, Andrew Dietderich, wrote. “FTX is rock solid, doesn’t use customer funds or take credit risk […]
Read MoreTexas Law Titans Rusty Hardin and Tony Buzbee Clash at Paxton Impeachment Trial
From the start, the courtroom drama in the impeachment trial of Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, has centered on a confrontation between the larger-than-life Houston lawyers brought in by each side to argue the case. In Mr. Paxton’s corner, there is Tony Buzbee, a well-tanned orator and onetime candidate for mayor of Houston, who […]
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