Workers would get more expansive protections for disabilities under final regulations released Friday that interpret 2008 amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Actor Martin Sheen testified via a video hookup from California today in a New Jersey trial in which actor James Marshall is seeking $11 million from the maker of the…
Authorities in New York were already suspicious about the injuries claimed by nine people in a three-car accident in the Bronx, because the damage to the vehicles was so minor.
Contending that he was “grossly overbilled” for a negligent defense in an insider trading case, the jailed former CEO of Qwest Communications International Inc. has sued over his legal bill…
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is adding another litigator to its white-collar criminal defense practice with the acquisition of Michele Roberts.
Discussing in a presentence investigation report an appropriate sentence for a 41-year-old former programmer for the Goldman Sachs investment bank who took proprietary source code before leaving for another job,…
At an action-packed pretrial hearing yesterday, a federal judge indicated that he may be considering dismissing the indictment (PDF) in an obstruction case against a former in-house counsel…
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has filed a $900 million reckless-lending suit against three Washington Mutual executives stemming from the biggest bank failure in history.
A form of “debtors’ prison” is alive and well in the United States, as the debt collection industry relies on arrest warrants to help recover money owed by borrowers.
A Louisiana personal injury lawyer who operated an “attorney incubator” for fledgling practitioners has had his business model shot down by the Internal Revenue Service.
A North Carolina state senator who is also a lawyer has introduced a bill in the general assembly that would permit non-attorney ownership of law firms.
It isn’t just George Hotz who may soon be feeling the heat from his publication of a “jailbreak” encryption key and software tools on his website that allow PlayStation 3…
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