Analysis of major changes to criminal law and its impact
By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman | February 3, 2025
"I ask the court to set aside the convictions and the forfeiture order," Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr partner Daniel Volchok argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on behalf of former Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby appealing her white-collar criminal convictions.
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By ALM Staff | January 30, 2025
This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors.
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By Emily Saul | January 29, 2025
The formal notice of appeal was filed on Wednesday. Trump's new legal team includes Robert Giuffra, James McDonald, Morgan Ratner, Jeff Wall and Matthew Schwartz.
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By Cedra Mayfield | January 28, 2025
On Tuesday, Supreme Court of Georgia Justice Michael P. Boggs delivered his State of the Judiciary address to the Georgia General Assembly.
Throughout the 30-minute report, Boggs announced the pending roll-out of a statewide case management system and proposal to digitally record court proceedings to circumvent ongoing court reporter staffing shortages. Boggs also shared legislative requests for enhanced safety for superior and state court judges, the elimination of partisan elections for probate and magistrate court judges, and pay raises for the state's more than 1,600 jurists statewide.
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By Cedra Mayfield | January 23, 2025
The Georgia Supreme Court has amended a court rule that impacts nonresident attorneys practicing pro hac vice, or unlicensed but approved, before the high court in Georgia.
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By Avalon Zoppo | January 17, 2025
The D.C. Circuit said the federal government had shown that pepper spray can cause "serious bodily injury" and that the three men used it that way, therefore an enhancement was properly applied to the charges against them.
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By Jimmy Hoover | January 15, 2025
Chicago trial lawyer Chris Gair delivered the "humblest answer I've ever heard from the Supreme Court podium," said Justice Elena Kagan.
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By Jimmy Hoover | January 14, 2025
The justices seem inclined to exclude "misleading" but true statements from a federal law prohibiting "false" statements to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman | January 13, 2025
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon found "insufficient basis" to prevent the Justice Department from releasing part of Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report explaining the prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump in his now-dismissed D.C. election-interference case.
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By Anthony E. Kaplan | January 13, 2025
Compassionate release motions effectively have become parole or sentence review hearings, a former federal prosecutor writes.
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