Lawyer for terror detainees quits
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A second lawyer for terror suspects held without charge in British jails resigns.
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A North Carolina district attorney who pursued sex charges against three Duke University lacrosse players said on Friday he would resign from office as he faced ethics charges over his handling of the case.
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An eighth U.S. attorney announced her resignation yesterday, the latest in a wave of forced departures of federal prosecutors who have clashed with the Justice Department over the death penalty and other issues.
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An election lawyer for President Bush who also has been advising a veterans group running TV ads against Democrat John Kerry resigned Wednesday from Bush's campaign.
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Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, one of President Bush's closest confidants and a key architect of his controversial counterterrorism policies, announced yesterday that he is quitting after seven months of bitter confrontation with Congress over his honesty and his competence to run the Just...
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned, an official said on Monday, ending a controversial tenure as chief law enforcement officer that blemished the administration of President George W. Bush.
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A U.S.-Iranian academic, who was detained for more than three months on spying accusations and freed on bail in August, flew out of Iran overnight, one of her lawyers said on Monday.
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LAHORE, Pakistan  - A Pakistani lawyer who has spearheaded opposition to President Pervez Musharraf has come out of three months of detention as defiant as ever and insisting the president step down.
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President Bush's point man for  international counterterrorism policy has quit, the first  resignation by a senior official to be made public since Bush's  reelection, a U.S. official said on Friday.
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Plaintiff lawyer William S. Lerach, who has brought scores of cases on behalf of defrauded shareholders, has told clients and others that he is leaving the California law firm he started three years ago, according to two people briefed on the issue.
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The lawyer of a suspect charged with terror attacks on Jordanians in Iraq and with belonging to al-Qaida urged the court to acquit his client Wednesday, saying there was a lack of evidence.
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A Muslim lawyer slapped one of the country's biggest law firms with a discrimination suit last week, saying it cut his work load and then fired him in response to the Sept.
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A respected lawyer advising Israeli President Moshe Katsav over accusations of rape and sexual assault has quit, Katsav's office said Sunday in the latest turn in a seven-month scandal which has brought calls for his dismissal.
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WASHINGTON - One of President Bush's top lawyers resigned from his campaign Wednesday, a day after disclosing that he had given legal advice to a veterans group airing TV ads against Democrat John Kerry. The guidance included checking ad scripts, the group said...
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands AP) &#151; Slobodan Milosevic's court-appointed lawyers have asked to quit because they cannot properly defend an unwilling client, leaving the U.N. tribunal in a dilemma over how to conclude the most important war crimes trial in half a century in a way history will judge as fair.
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ONE of America&#39;s key figures in the war on terror has resigned, signalling the start of a second-term shake-up in the Bush Administration.
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The top lawyer for computer giant Hewlett Packard Co. resigned this morning, hours before the start of a congressional hearing on the firm's surveillance scandal.