Cash bribes totaling at least $1 million and call girls helped him pull off a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, a disbarred Florida lawyer said during a 10-day deposition in a…
A onetime Texas billionaire who has been imprisoned as a flight risk since 2009 is competent to stand trial next month in a $7 billion fraud case, a federal judge…
R. Allen Stanford is scheduled to go to trial in January in an alleged $7 billion fraud in which investors were duped into buying so-called certificates of deposit at an…
A Texas criminal defense attorney has been arrested and criminally charged, along with two other defendants including his wife, for allegedly defrauding clients of nearly $1.5 million by persuading them,…
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether federal law bars mortgage lenders from charging “unearned fees” at closings if they aren’t part of a kickback or fee-sharing…
When a would-be client called James L. Arruebarrena as a mediation conference was about to occur in her federal employment discrimination administrative complaint, the New Orleans employment practitioner says he…
Ronald Kratz II wasn’t having any problem performing his desk job at a company that manufactures military vehicles and had been getting good evaluations of his work.
How long should one judge monopolize oral arguments? Seven minutes is too long for Chief Judge Edith Jones of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
A former basketball star and an attorney, both black, sought $3 million in damages over allegedly discriminatory practices at a popular Atlanta tavern, contending that they were forced to give…
A federal appeals court has affirmed a magistrate judge’s decision awarding $353,000 to a legal recruiter paid zero for allegedly introducing a 10-lawyer group to Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith.
Reaching conclusions similar to those of earlier investigators, in the most comprehensive report to date on the cause of disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began on April 20,…
A Delaware Superior Court judge’s plan to hold a holiday-weekend civility course on Sept. 4 for warring counsel in asbestos litigation was canceled by President Judge James T.…
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