The American Bar Association is prepared to sue if the Federal Trade Commission doesn’t exempt attorneys from new regulations intended to safeguard against identity theft, ABA President H. Thomas Wells…
An unidentified attorney got a job at a law firm in Munich in order to gather information about businessman Leo Kirch on behalf of Deutsche Bank NG, says a German…
A Washington, D.C., lawyer who is chair of an ABA committee on postal matters received a new kidney in an unusual eight-way transplant thought to be the largest chain of…
If, five years ago, you asked members of local government in a major city what was likely to be one of the hot-button issues of today, it is unlikely that…
In a federal court filing tonight, prosecutors argue for a 150-year sentence for Bernard Madoff, convicted of operating a record-breaking $65 billion swindle under the guise of a hedge fund.
Convicted in a Ponzi scheme of stupendous scope that has reportedly left many of his formerly well-to-do victims virtually penniless, Bernard Madoff could get as much as 150 years in…
Lawyers should not be considered creditors under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act and hence should not be subject to the red flags rule that requires creditors to detect…
Deluged with new bankruptcy filings, the federal courts need more judges to keep the docket moving, a federal courts official told a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee today.
Agreeing today to pay $2.3 million in penalties without admitting to any law violation, Mattel Corp. and its Fisher-Price division concluded a Consumer Product Safety Act case in which the…
Updated: Only days before President Barack Obama took office, then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey issued an opinion finding that noncitizens have no right to counsel in deportation proceedings and hence can’t…
President Obama has ordered federal agencies and departments to strike pre-emption language from regulations unless it can be legally justified, a move that has won applause from trial lawyers.
A former Florida judge who made headlines when he presided over custody hearings concerning Anna Nicole Smith’s infant daughter has been cleared once again in a second state agency investigation…
A $150,000 shopping spree at Neiman Marcus, Victoria’s Secret and other well-known department stores by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her family was a legal use of political funds, the…
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