A federal investigation is under way concerning an Internet security breach that reportedly exposed the e-mail addresses of some 114,000 Apple iPad users.
A fire alarm activated a year ago on the third floor of Parker McCay’s offices has left the New Jersey law firm still dealing with a super-heated situation.
Banks have made it harder to get a mortgage in recent years, after a national lending spree to buyers with dubious qualifications that contributed to an ongoing foreclosure crisis.
Ordinarily, workers’ compensation provides the remedy for an employee who is injured or killed at work. But attorney Barry Cohen says he expects tort law to trump workers’ comp immunity…
A famous former basketball player for the Chicago Bulls says he lost money because an Illinois law firm didn’t do enough due diligence on the trusted adviser who allegedly cost…
Government investigators, lawsuits and a law firm’s internal investigation have reportedly alleged an ongoing series of issues with maintenance and noncompliance with regulatory requirements at BP facilities in various United…
As summer associate classes shrink at a number of major New York law firms this year, law students lucky enough to have made the cut have an enhanced opportunity for…
In a lawsuit that could eventually include some 180,000 plaintiffs, current and former workers at the Bank of America are seeking compensation for allegedly unpaid wages and overtime.
Martin Powelson paid off his delinquent Detroit mortgage. But after a law firm that handles a high-volume foreclosure practice mistakenly said told the lender that the redemption period had expired…
A willingness to be flexible about hourly billing rates and an eat-what-you-kill compensation structure has proven profitable for former BigLaw attorneys now practicing in the “Philadelphia” office of Chamberlain Hrdlicka.
More than 25 years after 7,000 people died from a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide Corp. pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, and many more were injured, a court…
More than six years before a record-breaking gender-based employment discrimination suit was filed against Wal-Mart Stores in 2001, a law firm warned in a confidential report that the goliath retailer…
You might think Indiana officials would have learned a lawsuit lesson from the Dillinger Museum. After a seven-year litigation saga, tourism officials in Hammond…
A leading Chinese law firm has opened a Silicon Valley office staffed by the former managing partners of the Perkins Coie law offices in Beijing and Shanghai.
A judge blasted a Staten Island, N.Y., lawyer in a small claims court ruling ordering him to pay a client an arbitration award that was more than a year overdue.
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