After making media waves throughout the country with an unusual refusal to enforce court eviction orders in mortgage foreclosure cases last week, the sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, has backed…
Although other partners of a dissolved Pittsburgh law firm were held personally liable for the balance due on the remainder of the five-year office lease, two former Titus & McConomy…
About 25 would-be buyers in a failed Florida condominium development are suing the law firm that held their deposit money, arguing it didn’t do enough to safeguard $2.5 million of…
The author of a best-selling Holocaust memoir that was eventually determined to be a fake can keep the $32.4 million judgment she was awarded in an earlier case, along with…
Citigroup has given up its bid for Wachovia, but it hasn’t abandoned a state court lawsuit over what it contends is a violation of an exclusivity agreement it had with…
Morrison Cohen has been sued twice by former client Donald Trump. Now the New York law firm will be opposing him on behalf of a client sued in connection with…
A South Florida lawyer has been criminally charged along with two others who allegedly participated in a scheme to sell a house at a grossly inflated value to a “buyer”…
A law professor who has written on the subject of court disputes over engagement rings has found that her expertise has made her a popular expert over who gets to…
Bank of America will agree to modify loan terms, where possible, for up to 390,000 borrowers who took out subprime loans serviced by Countrywide in a deal that could be…
Companies that tout the virtues of arbitration appear to prefer litigation for disputes involving contracts with other companies, according to a study by three law professors.
Updated: Citigroup lawyers made a weekend trip to a judge’s home in Connecticut in an attempt to block a Wachovia buyout by Wells Fargo, but the judge had no authority…
Although the worst of the mortgage meltdown was then still in the future, a ABA study of legal malpractice claims from 2004 to 2007 showed that related legal malpractice claims…
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