For the second time in a month, a French court has held Internet auction site eBay Inc. liable for helping to facilitate the sale of luxury goods outside of authorized…
A former Washington, D.C., attorney general is co-chairing a new practice group at her new law firm: providing litigation support to her former colleagues in other states.
Updated: The attorneys general of California and Illinois filed lawsuits today against Countrywide Financial Corp., claiming that the mortgage lender engaged in deceptive and unfair practices.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a case that tests the antitrust “price squeeze” doctrine in a case against a unit of AT&T. The issue has divided the…
The Securities and Exchange Commission thought Donald Lines had been served with witness subpoenas, since a process server said he had. But Lines said he wasn’t, and the server, Boston-based…
Clients in Collier County reportedly are complaining about several Florida law firms that have given money-back guarantees in traffic cases and then fought losing court battles on behalf of their…
Two lemon-law lawyers accused of failing to adequately supervise an overwhelmed associate faced skeptical judges on Maryland’s highest court on Friday.
Lawyers Craig Kimmel and Robert Silverman of Pennsylvania, founders…
Among those who bought auction-rate securities based on widespread expectations that they could easily be sold is San Diego lawyer Chris Longman, 35. But now he and his wife reportedly…
Updated: A report today by a trade association on troubled mortgages during the first quarter of 2008 says the number of delinquencies, new foreclosures and the inventory of homes in…
Ohio lawyer Edward Siegel is a transactional lawyer with an unusual source of extra income. In these cases, he doesn’t make money from bringing lawsuits and reaching…
Authorities say more than 400 struggling California homeowners, many of them Spanish-speaking, were tricked into paying up to $10,000 for worthless “land grants” and other bogus measures claimed to provide…
An advertising campaign in which LifeLock CEO Todd Davis provides his social security number on the air, in newspapers and on billboards in an effort to prove the effectiveness of…
Cell phone service providers reportedly are negotiating with the Federal Communications Commission to reduce future cancellation fees for unhappy customers in exchange for the federal regulatory agency’s agreement to eliminate…
Updated: Officials in Great Britain are considering a possible plan to store all electronic communications—telephone calls, e-mails, text messages and Internet information—for up to a year in a massive government…
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