The nursing home roommate from hell. A former San Diego nursing home resident was sentenced to 19 years in jail yesterday for setting a series of fires at two local nursing homes while she was a resident. According to an investigation, Mary Wilson tried to kill her nursing home roommate by setting ...

Good Morning!  Today is Tuesday, February 9, and here’s your daily round up… A Senate report says that attorney-client accounts are being used to circumvent money laundering laws… King & Spalding picked up three litigators from Orrick… Winston & Strawn added three in ...

How many tort cases are tried in Tennessee in the last year?   The Annual Report of the Tennessee Judiciary gives us the answer.   Here is the data for the year ended June 30, 2009: Total jury trials in all tort cases:   260 Total number of medical malpractice trials:  26 Tot ...

Santa Clara County District Attorney Carr instructed her deputies last Friday to file blanket "affidavits of prejudice" in all cases handled by Superior Court Judge Andrea Bryan, who harshly criticized a prosecutor and dismissed a high-profile child molestation case earlier this month. The affida ...

Whats that stuff about the wheels of justice grinding slowly?  Dont tell that to Mark Brown.  Well, actually you couldnt if you wanted to:  hes dead.  Hed been on Ohios death row since he was convicted of killing a Youngstown store owner and a clerk back in 1994, while apparently trying to copy a sc ...

Christopher W. Kirkham has been named a partner in the San Francico office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He joins the firm from O’Melveny & Myers, where he was formerly a corporate finance partner. Kirkham, a specialist in debt finance, joins the firm’s mergers and acquisi ...

It was apparently the most open secret of the Prop 8 trial in San Francisco. The presiding judge, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is gay. The San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate has the full report, and the article cites many sources who say they do not expect his sexual orientati ...

Source: LexisNexis, February 7-8, 2010. Lexis ID and Password Required for Online Access:   1. The Associated Press State & Local Wire, February 8, 2010 Monday 4:10 AM GMT, , STATE AND REGIONAL, 488 words, Obama hasn't ruled out NY trial for 9/11 planner,  ...

On Feb. 15, Wade Cooper (pictured, left) will become managing partner of Dallas-based Jackson Walker, succeeding Michael Wilson (pictured, right), who has been managing partner since 1992. Cooper, managing partner of the firm’s Austin office since 2006 and a member...

DEMAND QUESTION TIME: Mike Wilson of the Cincinnati Tea Party emails: “I just signed the petition and will share with the rest of the tea party movement here in Ohio. If you think it would be beneficial, feel free to add the Ohio Liberty Council to the list of sponsors.” Here’s ...