A former corporate partner in Baker & McKenzie’s New York office has been indicted for allegedly stealing $1.3 million from a client trust account. The money reportedly represents interest earned…
Delaware and New York City continue to be the most desired venues for lawyers filing federal bankruptcy cases on behalf of corporate clients, and their popularity has grown in recent…
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to turn over to him for in camera review by Monday a secret memorandum described by the American Civil Liberties Union as…
A former first-year associate at Bingham McCutchen complains that the law firm didn’t do enough to investigate alleged druggings of attorneys by a former employee and/or attendee of firm events…
An unidentified man brought a semiautomatic weapon into a St. Petersburg, Fla., courthouse lobby today and opened fire before being shot and killed by two Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies.
Amid increasing concern nationwide over an apparent epidemic of gun violence, a federal appeals court decision today dismissing a New York City nuisance case against firearms manufacturers is likely to…
Updated: A class action by credit card holders over mandatory arbitration provisions imposed by credit card issuers can proceed to trial, a federal appeals court has ruled.
In two separate lawsuits, the widow of John Lennon is seeking to protect her late husband’s memory from commercial exploitation. Yoko Ono reportedly wants to force the removal of an…
Updated: At least a dozen present and former attorneys at an Albany, N.Y., law firm are now reportedly being investigated by the state attorney general as part of an ongoing…
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled today that former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman cannot be held liable for saying that the air near the collapsed World…
The federal appeals court based in New York City is struggling to handle immigration appeals from small law firms ill-equipped to devote substantial resources to the matters.
Does an encyclopedia of Harry Potter lore take too much and do too little, simply rearranging the furniture of J.K. Rowling’s famous seven-book series of children’s novels? Or is the…
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