Law and Legal

Pointing to securing the “public trust,” Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office has asked a federal appeals court to overturn a decision that blocked part of a 2018 state constitutional amendment imposing new restrictions on lobbying. U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom this summer issued a permanent injunction against a restriction on state and local officials lobbying other government bodies while in …

Timeline: Ken Paxton’s legal troubles Timeline: Ken Paxton’s legal troubles 02:35 NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) – Less than two months after he was acquitted of wrongdoing in his impeachment trial, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will be in a Houston courtroom for a hearing in a long-delayed criminal case.  Paxton faces charges for securities fraud. It’s a case that goes back …

Roy Cohn, the evil, crooked, disbarred New York lawyer, who mentored a young Donald Trump and taught him many of the nasty ways to bully, cheat and lie, was loyal to his client, but he still would absolutely sell out Trump to save himself from prison. The moral, for an immoral man, is that a lawyer who engages in a …

When the All Blacks battle South Africa for the Rugby World Cup final the focus will be on a big law partner who has, as one media outlet noted, a cooler side hustle than many. Wayne Barnes, 44, is a partner at the London office of biglaw US firm Squire Patton Boggs and is also one of the world’s top …

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) – A former lawyer for Donald Trump, Jenna Ellis, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to helping the then-U.S. president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state of Georgia and agreed to testify against Trump if called upon. Ellis is the third member of Trump’s legal team to reach a plea deal since Thursday, following …

NEW YORK, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen testified on Tuesday that he manipulated the values of the former U.S. president’s real estate properties to match “whatever number Mr. Trump told us.” Testifying as a key witness in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil fraud case against Trump, Cohen said Trump tasked him …

Legal filings claim violations of the Immigration Consultant Act but don’t list specific examples More than a dozen San Diego County small business owners say they’ve done nothing wrong. They say they’ve dedicated their careers to helping immigrants achieve the American dream. And yet they, and hundreds of their colleagues throughout Southern California, argue they’re facing malicious lawsuits designed for …

WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) – A former lawyer for Donald Trump on Thursday pleaded guilty to aiding the former U.S. president’s efforts to overturn his election defeat in the state of Georgia, agreeing to testify against him if called. The lawyer, Sidney Powell, pleaded guilty to six counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with performance of election duties, a …