Oregon must dismiss more than 1,400 criminal cases due to attorney shortage, court rules

The problem has been years in the making and has become a significant constitutional crisis, as people charged with crimes are routinely unable to fight their cases as they wait weeks, months or sometimes years for the state to appoint them lawyers. The attorney shortage – due in part to the increasing difficulty of recruiting attorneys for the low-salary, high-caseload jobs – has meant that people have had cases hanging over them for extended periods of time, impacting their housing, employment and families, advocates say. 

Oregon's highest court ruled on Thursday that dismissals are required if the state failed to provide counsel within 60 days after arraignment for a misdemeanor and within 90 days for a felony...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/05/oregon-supreme-court-ruling-attorney-shortage

 

Pro-Trump attorney arrested after court hearing about leaked Dominion emails | CNN Politics

There was an existing arrest warrant for the attorney, Stefanie Lambert, stemming from her failure to appear at recent court hearings in her separate criminal case in Michigan, where she was charged with conspiring to seize voting machines after the 2020 election...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/trump-allies-election-defamation-case-leak-dominion-emails/index.html

Trump Lawyer CRUMBLES under CROSS-EXAMINATION at Senate Hearing

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the Georgia State Senate hearing investigating Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis where the lawyer of Donald Trump’s co-defendant took the stand and did poorly under examination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTa8bkOh0rc

Trump 2020 lawyer admits misrepresenting stolen election claims - POLITICO

Ellis is the latest Trump attorney involved in the former president's post-election efforts to face discipline. Rudy Giuliani had his license temporarily suspended and is awaiting a final ruling from a bar discipline proceeding in Washington, D.C. John Eastman is preparing for disciplinary proceedings in California. And Jeffrey Clark has temporarily delayed bar discipline proceedings against him in Washington while attempting to bring the fight into federal court...

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/08/trump-lawyer-misrepresented-jenna-ellis-00086256

Biden Quickly Moves To Force Out Peter Robb, Trump’s Labor Board Attorney | HuffPost

It will be a precedent-setting move that unions argue is necessary for workers rights...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-quickly-moves-to-force-out-peter-robb-trumps-labor-board-attorney_n_6008adc1c5b697df1a0bb88e

Trump Team Backs Away From Lin Wood After Pence Tweets

Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood's prediction that Vice President Mike Pence could "face execution by firing squad" for "treason" is prompting Trumpworld to once again try and distance itself from the Atlanta attorney...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-team-runs-away-from-lin-wood-after-pence-tweets

Trump’s lawyers gave thousands to Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz before the impeachment trial began – Raw Story

President Trump’s legal team made numerous campaign contributions to Republican senators overseeing the impeachment trial. Former independent counsels Ken Starr and Robert Ray, who both investigated former President Bill Clinton ahead of his impeachment, contributed thousands of dollars to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last year before they joined the president’s team, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics (CFPR).....

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/trumps-lawyers-gave-thousands-to-mitch-mcconnell-lindsey-graham-and-ted-cruz-before-the-impeachment-trial-began/

Michael Flynn's new lawyer Sidney Powell

Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn’s new attorney, is an anti-Mueller conspiracy theorist and Fox regular...
https://youtu.be/E0gdHTZlN3Y

Lawyer for Navy SEAL accused of war crimes also works for Trump Organization - CNN Politics

An attorney for Navy SEAL chief Edward "Eddie" Gallagher also represents the Trump Organization, CNN has learned, just days after reports surfaced indicating the President is considering pardoning Gallagher of charges that could constitute war crimes.....
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/24/politics/navy-seal-chief-eddie-gallagher-defense-team-trump/index.html

“The Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Apply Here” — U.S. Border Guards Arrest Arizona Immigrant Rights Volunteer - The Intercept

U.S. border officials arrested a human rights advocate, denying her access to an attorney when she accompanied an asylum-seeker to a border crossing.
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/09/asylum-border-humanitarian-aid/

Michael Cohen’s attorney responds to allegations that he lied in his testimony - The Washington Post: Analysis

A November 2016 clip has surfaced showing him saying "100 percent" he would take a job in the White House. Yet he denied it in his testimony Wednesday. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/01/cohens-lawyer-responds-allegations-cohen-lied-testimony-about-wanting-white-house-job/

A mystery solved: Secret Mueller case involves Russia-dealing law firm that worked for oligarch tied to Putin - Raw Story

A law firm that's been hired by a Russian oligarch and other Russian interests is involved in a challenge to special counsel Robert Mueller's mysterious grand jury subpoena....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/mystery-solved-mueller-subpoena-targeted-russian-law-firm-links-oligarch-tied-putin/

Federal agents mysteriously raided a former Trump attorney’s office: what we know - Vox

It's unclear if the raid was related to Burke's work for the president. ....
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/29/18118393/ed-burke-fbi-raid-trump-lawyer

This is how Hannity aggressively defended Michael Cohen without disclosing that he was his lawyer - ThinkProgress.org

Sean Hannity was revealed on Monday to be the mystery third client of Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's longtime "fixer" and personal attorney. But Hannity did not disclose this important detail as he repeatedly criticized last week's FBI raid on Cohen's offices. ...
https://thinkprogress.org/this-is-how-hannity-aggressively-defended-michael-cohen-without-disclosing-that-he-was-his-lawyer-d0c60eff9cf1/