Civil law is a broad area that governs disputes involving people’s rights and duties. Some major branches of civil law are as ...

Mr. Lat writes about the legal profession. Mr. Shemtob is a lawyer. For months now, the country has been riveted by the four criminal cases against Donald Trump: the New York state case involving hush ...

Mark Gridley appears Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, at his preliminary hearing in Douglas County District Court. A Douglas County judge presiding over two lawsuits against the Lawrence school district related ...

Civil litigators often overlook character evidence, assuming it to be inadmissible. But the Federal Rules of Evidence and their state counterparts do not impose a categorical ban on character evidence ...