Aug 26, 1988 · Outspoken lawyer Percy Foreman called legal 'warrior'. HOUSTON -- Flamboyant criminal lawyer Percy Foreman, who died at age 86 of a heart attack, was hailed Friday by one of his law partners as a ...
Aug 31, 2020 · Aug. 31, 2020. NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court on Monday handed down a symbolic sentence — a fine of about 1 cent — to a prominent lawyer who posted tweets critical of the court and its ...
Feb 09, 2021 · February 10, 2021 9:00am. David Schoen unwittingly gave Twitter a lesson in Orthodox Jewish customs during former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Tuesday. Schoen, Trump’s ...
Aug 26, 2014 · Outspoken Lawyer Herbert Shafer Dies at 93 'I adore the Constitution,' he once said. 'Anyone who defies it is ipso facto my enemy' August 26, …
164 Comments. Matt Forney. Matt Forney is an American author, journalist and radio host based in Europe. He blogs at MattForney.com and is also on SoundCloud, Twitch, and YouTube. He is the author of Do the Philippines and many other books, available here. Matt is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Terror House Magazine.
Freedom is not a privilege granted by the government, but the product of the actions and beliefs of a people. If you’re not willing to fight for your rights, the forces of tyranny will strip them from you, one humiliating interrogation and patdown at a time.
Rhode Island estate planner Joseph Caramadre, apparently having had an epiphany that mortuary services and churches were hogging up all that sweet, sweet death money, started advertising in newspapers that he would hand over two grand to any terminally ill individual willing to furnish him with their signature and other pertinent info. Not content to wait for the near-dead to come to him, he also personally solicited the dying, paid visits to AIDS patients, and talked to the friends and families of the nearly deceased -- he got their information, and they got enough money to make all their bucket list dreams come true (assuming their bucket list consisted solely of "have a couple thousand dollars").
By 2007, Bergrin had graduated to the prestigious moniker of pimp, when, after hiring a drug smuggler and the self-proclaimed "King of all Pimps" as his paralegal, Bergrin decided to make himself the heir to the pimp king's crown.
Being a criminal defense attorney often involves spending a decent amount of time in prisons, seeing as how the people who pay your bills happen to spend most of their free time there. So, what would be the absolute most unethical way to spend those visits?
Lawyers unfairly have a bit of a bad reputation. Yes, some lie for a living and defend murderers for money -- but the system simply doesn't work without them. No doubt most are honest folk who do their jobs within the code of ethics all attorneys work under. But when lawyers do go bad, holy shit do they make the most of it.