Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Magistrate Dan Dascenzo didn’t decide to go into the legal profession until after college, but once he began law school he said it was clear that the courtroom was ...

The Akron Legal News is a daily publication devoted to legal, financial, real estate and general news. Designated by the Federal, County and Municipal Courts as the Official Law Journal of Summit ...

AKRON––Judge Elinore Marsh Stormer of Summit County Probate Courthas appointed Dr. Jennifer Dwyer to the Board of Summit County Developmental Disabilities, serving adults and children with ...

As a child Casey Weinstein started a neighborhood trash pickup organization; as a young adult he served in the United States Air Force, where he worked to keep government data safe from hackers along ...

The Summit County Court of Common Pleas was bustling last Friday with high school students from 11 different area schools for the Ohio Mock Trial Competition, sponsored locally by the Akron Bar ...

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, ...

In an opinion released recently, the 10th District Court of Appeals affirmed a man’s rape and kidnapping convictions based on his attack of a former co-worker. Rickey Dye appealed his convictions from ...

Getting medical records can be time-consuming and expensive for everyone. But few lawyers (and fewer medical providers) know that federal law now limits how much a provider can charge for records. And ...

The Supreme Court of Ohio sent a case back to an appellate court recently to consider the merits of an appeal from an Austintown man who is protesting an indictment that could lead to his sixth trial ...

It’s not often in life that people get the chance to try out a career before choosing it. But that’s exactly what The University of Akron School of Law Summer Trial Academy allows students to do. The ...

A pair of state representatives have introduced a bill into the Ohio General Assembly that would create the motorcycle road guard certificate and training program to allow certified individuals to ...

Dear Mr. Berko: My adviser wants me to sell Kinder Morgan, Buckeye Partners and Enterprise Products Partners, which I bought in 2008, because he thinks the pipeline stocks have too many risks. Please ...