More Jobs: Preliminary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the legal sector picked up 600 positions in May, The Am Law Daily reports. But in April, the industry saw an increase of 3,500 positions.
Sentenced: Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on Saturday was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 revolt that led to his ouster, The Washington Post reports.
Revoked: The suspect in the Trayvon Martin shooting death has returned to jail after a judge revoked his bond, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Seminole County, Fla., Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester Jr.’s decision to put George Zimmerman behind bars again came after he learned that the suspect and his wife, Shellie, had more than $135,000 in savings. Zimmerman's wife had testified under oath that she and her husband had no savings.
Pay Up: A federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida last week held two lawyers in contempt and ordered them to return $275,000 in fees they took from a client's family, the Sun Sentinel reports. Lawyers Peter Mayas and Emmanuel Roy, who weren't eligible to practice law in South Florida’s federal court, had secret deals with the members of client Patrick Coulton's family, obtaining tens of thousands of dollars through the acquisition of jewelry, a townhouse, a Porsche Cayenne and cash. "Their conduct was outrageous, disgusting, abhorrent,” U.S. Magistrate Judge William Turnoff wrote. “[I] would go so far as to describe it as being the most outrageous in … 25 years on the bench.”
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