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California has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has asse...
A jury found former Republican congressman David Rivera guilty of secretly lobbying the U.S. government on behalf of Venezuela's socialist Nicolás Maduro — the same government Rivera had publicly deno...
A suspended attorney license in New York is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path to re...
Arkansas has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has assemb...
Thirty-five former federal judges—including Republican appointees—have accused the Trump administration of engineering a collusive lawsuit against its own IRS to extract billions in personal benefits ...
A suspended attorney license in Florida is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path to rei...
Arizona has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has assembl...
In the span of a single week in June 2026, federal judges in Georgia, Idaho, and Michigan each faced separate misconduct allegations — sex in chambers and lying to investigators, a parking lot assault...
A suspended attorney license in Texas is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path to reins...
Alaska has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has assemble...
After more than a year of cross-examination, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's testimony in his landmark corruption trial concluded this week — not with quiet legal formality, but with an ex...
A suspended attorney license in California is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path to ...
Alabama has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has assembl...
A bombshell Reuters investigation reveals that 96 percent of Trump’s second-term pardons bypassed longstanding Justice Department guidelines—and a disturbing pattern of million-dollar lobbying fees, c...
Federal prosecutors in Chicago tried three times to indict six Democratic elected officials and activists who protested outside an ICE facility — dismissing grand jurors who refused to play along, vou...
Across America, a specific and devastating form of attorney misconduct goes largely unpunished: lawyers who accept retainers to file appeals, spend years stringing clients along with false assurances,...
A June 2026 Reuters investigation found that 96% of President Trump's second-term clemency grants bypassed longstanding Justice Department guidelines — a dramatic departure from every modern presidenc...
Dan Berulis filed a whistleblower complaint alleging DOGE had breached the NLRB's systems — and nearly paid for it with his life. A chilling new lawsuit reveals what happened in the hours after Elon M...
U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross of Georgia received only a quiet 'private reprimand' after investigators confirmed she had sex with a high-ranking police officer inside her judicial chambers — within...
John M. Skinner served as a non-attorney town court justice in Columbia, Herkimer County, for 16 years. He was formally censured in 2018. He continued the same conduct. In February 2026, the NYS Commi...
Courtny Osterling was admitted to the bar in 2011. David Chandler was admitted in 2014. Both are Chief Counsels of Second Department grievance committees — the offices that police attorney misconduct ...
On November 15, 2024, Syracuse City Court Judge K. Felicia Pitts-Davis asked her clerk whether any upcoming weddings involved a same-sex couple — then refused to officiate one, citing religious belief...
In May 2024, Canandaigua Town Court Justice Walter W. Jones used a racial slur repeatedly in a courthouse parking lot while telling a story to colleagues, then five days later accused a Black defendan...
The federal crime Cheryl Ann Cozza pleaded guilty to in 1997 is technically known as structuring — but federal law enforcement and banking regulators know it by another name: smurfing.
David William Chandler was admitted to the New York bar in 2014. He is the Chief Counsel of the Grievance Committee for the Second and Eleventh Judicial Districts — responsible for attorney discipline...
New York has no official list of its worst judges. It does have a paper trail — appellate reversals, Commission on Judicial Conduct determinations, and investigative journalism that, taken together, n...
Anthony D'Esposito, a former Republican congressman installed as the Labor Department's Inspector General in January 2026, spent his first months in office exploring a return to Congress — keeping his...
The moment someone says "I'm a lawyer" in a dispute, most people feel the power shift. The other person has credentials. They know the system. They have tools you don't.
There is a distinction that matters enormously in the legal profession and is almost entirely invisible to the general public: the difference between a law degree and a law license.
In a single week in June 2026, federal judges in Georgia, Idaho, and Michigan each faced formal consequences for conduct that critics say should never have come from the bench: sex in chambers and lyi...