A federal judge has given a green light to a lawsuit against a bank utilized by then-attorney Scott Rothstein in the $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme he ran from his South…
A complaint set to be heard this week by the National Labor Relations Board illustrates the legal risks faced by companies for mistakes relating to social media.
Contending that the purported “seasoned beef” or “seasoned ground beef” in a number of Taco Bell menu items isn’t as meaty as it sounds, consumer law firms have filed a…
In another sign that the corporate legal market is gaining steam this year, megafirm Hogan Lovells has raided the Frankfurt, Germany, office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher for a 10-lawyer…
AT&T lawyer Geoffrey Klineberg ran into some tough questioning on Wednesday when he urged the U.S. Supreme Court to exempt his client from the Freedom of Information Act.
Elite law schools are “churning out ideas that are catastrophically bad for America,” according to a new book by blogger and Cato Institute senior fellow Walter Olson.
A second onetime Ropes & Gray associate has pleaded guilty to making unauthorized use of confidential law firm client information in a wide-ranging insider-trading case in which certain individuals connected…
Last year, a decision to cooperate with a filmmaker making a documentary about a $113 billion Ecuadorean environmental case cost plaintiffs’ counsel their attorney-client privilege.
Lawyers for interested parties ranging from abuse survivors and multinational corporations to the Boy Scouts of America and media entities are battling about whether so-called “perversion files” can be opened…
A law firm retained by a group of California engineers to help protect them against potential interference after they established their own shop accidentally sent confidential e-mail to the group’s…
Citing a competing—and, it says, superior—study of feline toileting preferences, one leading manufacturer of kitty litter has made a federal case out of another’s advertising claim that finicky cats prefer…
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