The Official Law Journal for Local, County, State, US District and US Bankruptcy Courts. To the right are listed all legal happenings in Summit County by court. The Akron Legal News offers daily ...

It’s not uncommon for a police officer to write a traffic ticket or make an arrest, but when an officer helps to pass new stricter animal abuse laws, people are bound to take notice. That’s exactly ...

Kentucky will receive $110 million to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation's largest grocery chains of helping fuel the opioid epidemic, the state's attorney general said recently. The state ...

In 2023, the American Bar Association formed a committee of experts to try to make sense of, and provide guidelines for the use of, generative artificial intelligence in the legal environment. In late ...

The 11th District Court of Appeals ruled recently that a defendant was not entitled to a resentencing hearing after his death penalty was modified and reduced to life imprisonment. The appellant, ...

During his long career, Akron attorney Robert W. Higham held several different positions in the legal profession, but colleagues and family say his real passion was private practice. As an attorney, ...

The 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently affirmed the judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio in a heroin distribution conspiracy in Cleveland that was run ...

Richard J. Steinle has been a writer/photographer in the Air Force, a lawyer in private practice and a public relations specialist at Goodyear. All of those experiences have helped him in his true ...