A Kansas man convicted of child molestation will get a new trial because of misconduct by the judge and the prosecutor. The Kansas Supreme Court ruled last week that they each crossed the line during the trial of Luther Kemble, who was sentenced in 2008 to 25 years to life for fondling an 8-year-old girl

As defense lawyers for MS-13 gang members accused of capital crimes try to convince a California federal judge their clients don’t deserve to die, the Justice Department is set to consider the relative culpability of the six defendants.

Two New Jersey trial judges have been reprimanded for making derogatory comments touching on the alienage, ethnicity, race and honesty of physical ailments of litigants and lawyers appearing before them. Among a litany of incidents laid out in court papers, James Citta compared a criminal defendant to O.J. Simpson and ridiculed another for being an immigrant, and James Convery asked a Hispanic lawyer if she was an illegal alien.

Before every oral argument in the D.C. Circuit, a court clerk tells everyone to draw near and give their attention because the court is now sitting.

Did Pfizer cross the line on the eve of last month’s crucial test trial involving its controversial Neurontin drug? Questions linger about why the world’s largest pharmaceutical company sent a former CIA agent to a whisteblowing scientist’s home the day before he was due to testify. The scientist told The Am Law Litigation Daily he and his family felt intimidated by the investigator’s appearance and are still shaken by the event