As the feds prepare to step up enforcement against employers that violate the rules concerning unpaid internships, employers—including law firms—can help demonstrate their compliance by using a written internship agreement,…
A lawyer for billionaire brothers Samuel and Charles Wyly has been named, along with the two Wylys and a stockbroker, in an alleged $550 million insider-trading fraud.
Freed today from a federal prison in Florida, onetime media mogul Conrad Black is seemingly potentially on track for a possible reversal of his fraud and obstruction of justice convictions.
Finding that a law firm made a bad-faith involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition in an effort to force an ex-client to abandon meritorious counterclaims in a fee-dispute case, a federal…
Two subsidiaries of the Fortress Investment Group LLC hedge fund say they lost $50 million by relying on “false legal opinion letters” that helped now ex-attorney and convicted swindler Marc…
Updated: An individual’s claim to own 84 percent of the popular Facebook Inc. social networking site, based on a years-old two-page “work for hire” website development contract calling for an…
Forget cash flow. Equity is where it’s at, as far as the law firm of the future is concerned, predicts a well-known lawyer who is now venturing out to stake…
Goldman Sachs agreed to pay a record-breaking $550 million fine as part of a settlement announced last week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of charges that the bank…
Blind in one eye after a jail fight, suffering from other ailments and taking anti-depressants, onetime billionaire R. Allen Stanford is finding it tough to defend the criminal case he…
The U.S. Department of Labor sued a Georgia personal injury firm and its former chief executive officer this week, contending that they improperly transferred, lent or used retirement plan assets…
In a lawsuit likely to resonate with other women who travel alone on business, a well-known sportscaster for ESPN sued several hotel chains today in Illinois state court over video…
How competitive is the legal economy right now? Competitive enough that one of the most renowned New York-based corporate law firms has decided it needs to boost its marketing department,…
Called by a concerned citizen over an undressed mannequin in a store window, Beatrice, Neb., police first covered that part of the window with paper and then, when store owner…
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