Lawyer

A top Dominican law-enforcement official said Friday that a local lawyer has reported being paid by someone claiming to work for the conservative website the Daily Caller to find prostitutes who would lie and say they had sex for money with New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez. The local lawyer told Dominican investigators that a foreign man, who identified himself as "Carlos," had offered him $5,000 to find and pay women in the Caribbean nation willing to make the claims about Menendez, according to Jose Antonio Polanco, district attorney for the La Romana region, where the investigation is being conducted.

It's Women's History Month, and here's a basic test: Who was Alice Paul? Well, she was feisty. She was brilliant. Some might even say that Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977), our cover girl, was the true founder of the women's movement. Yet, there are many to whom the name means nothing. Which is why Philadelphia's Taylor Williams is bringing her stirring portrayal of Paul, in authentic period costume, to the Mount Laurel Library this weekend. The event is sponsored by the Alice Paul Institute, which is headquartered at Paul's Mount Laurel family homestead, and is now a center for leadership development for girls and women.

A defense lawyer at the murder and conspiracy trial of drug kingpin Kaboni Savage hammered away Thursday at a key prosecution witness, trying to get the man to concede that others might have been behind the October 2004 firebombing that killed his mother, son, and four relatives. The witness, Eugene "Twin" Coleman, told a federal jury in Philadelphia this week that his relatives were killed less than a day after he overheard Savage, his onetime friend, describe him and his family as rats, and vow to "kill all the [expletive]

Marshall A. Bernstein, 87, of Society Hill, a Philadelphia lawyer who was a lecturer at area law schools, died Tuesday, March 19, at his home of complications from a fall. Mr. Bernstein, who practiced law in Philadelphia for 45 years, was rated as one of the 100 best plaintiff's trial lawyers in the country by the Inner Circle of Advocates, a national select lawyers group. He specialized in civil litigation, personal injury, and medical malpractice cases. Mr. Bernstein was a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and many other organizations.

DAVID MANILLA is already doing 10 to 25 years in prison for shooting a man through the heart while deer hunting, but the well-connected suburban lawyer was just bagged for another felony. Manilla, 51, the nephew of former Montgomery County District Attorney Michael Marino, pleaded guilty Monday to a federal charge of possession of firearms by a felon - which could lead to additional jail time in connection with the 2010 death of Barry Groh. In 2011, Manilla pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and gun charges after he shot Groh to death with a high-powered rifle near Manilla's home in Worcester, Montgomery County.

A Montgomery County lawyer who was convicted of killing a man whom he said he mistook for a deer pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to possessing 19 guns that he was barred from owning because of a prior conviction. A June sentencing hearing was scheduled for David Manilla, 51, of Worcester Township. In November 2010, Manilla shot and killed Barry Groh, 52, of Quakertown, who was hunting on the border of Manilla's property in Richland Township, Bucks County. Manilla told police that he mistook Groh, who was about 90 yards away, for a deer.

NEWARK, N.J. - A once-prominent defense lawyer whose clients included rap stars and other entertainers was convicted Monday of operating a racketeering enterprise that involved the murder of a witness and engaged in prostitution, drugs, and witness tampering. A federal jury deliberated for a full day and parts of two others before coming back with guilty verdicts on all 23 counts against Paul Bergrin. The former federal prosecutor once represented an Army reservist charged in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, in addition to celebrities Queen Latifah and Lil' Kim and the group Naughty by Nature.

With 20 years in the business of representing employees who say they have been wronged at the workplace, employment lawyer Patricia Barasch has plenty of stories to tell: The woman in the hospital being treated for depression who received a fax, while in the hospital, telling her she was fired. The man who spent years working extra nights and weekends and went into his boss' office expecting a bonus and compliment for his hard work. Instead, he was laid off - at 63. "A lot of the cases make me cry," Barasch said.

Rights lawyer seized after vote HARARE, Zimbabwe - Police arrested the country's most prominent rights lawyer and four senior officials with the prime minister's party on Sunday, a day after the nation voted in a referendum on a new constitution that calls for more protection against human-rights violations. Full results from the vote are expected within five days. Rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa is being charged with "obstructing or defeating the course of justice" and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's chief legal adviser, Thabani Mpofu, is accused of impersonating police by compiling dossiers on unspecified crimes, a police official said.