Criminal Federal Lawyer

R. Allen Stanford Wants New Criminal Defense Counsel — Again With just nine months before he goes to trial on criminal charges, R. Allen Stanford wants to hire a new set of criminal defense lawyers, as one of his current lawyers says he has disagreed with Stanford over trial and pretrial strategy. If Southern District of Texas Judge David Hittner approves the substitution, the proposed legal team would be the fifth configuration of criminal defense … Read more on Law.com

Services Set for Criminal Defense Attorney Charles Lloyd Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday for Charles E. Lloyd, one of the city’s most prominent criminal defense attorneys. Lloyd, who died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer, was 75. Read more on Metropolitan News-Enterprise

Judge: Convertino can represent Riddle Two federal judges ruled today ruled that Detroit political consultant Sam Riddle can be represented by attorney Richard Convertino in an upcoming Detroit bribery case even though Convertino represents former state Rep. Mary Waters in another federal criminal case in which Riddle is a codefendant. Read more on Detroit Free Press

IP Lawyer Suspended for Not Telling Clients of Design Patents’ Meager Value In a rare ethics prosecution against an intellectual property lawyer, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ordered a three-year suspension for S. Michael Bender. The discipline arose from a case that, according to a federal appeals court, “reads like a novel but represents the true story of hopes dashed, fees wasted, and dreams lost by hundreds of individual inventors caught up in the world of self … Read more on Law.com