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…
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…
In the past five months, Virginia-based law firm Dunlap, Grubb, & Weaver has filed suits against thousands of individuals accused of illegally downloading independent films—an operation that could yield the…
What happens when a high-powered New York City lawyer who represents the New York Yankees, a bar mitzvah boy who loves the Bronx Bombers and a boxing promoter all want…
A former lead singer for Talking Heads has sued Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, contending that he used the group’s 1985 “Road to Nowhere” song in an online attack ad against…
A federal judge’s unusual order requiring the filmmaker who created the Crude documentary to turn over some 600 feet of raw footage to Chevron has been temporarily suspended.
The U.S. Supreme is allowing an Illinois company to bring an antitrust challenge to the National Football League’s exclusive marketing agreement with Reebok for caps with trademarked isignias.
A lawyer who filed a $184 million suit against the New England Patriots for secretly videotaping the New York Jets hopes the U.S. Supreme Court will hear his case after…
A playwright has canceled her upcoming production examining the morality of Bernard Madoff, saying her decision was based on a complaint by human rights activist Elie Wiesel.
It’s official: NBC announced today that it is canceling the long-running Law & Order legal drama, following unconfirmed reports yesterday that it intended to do so.
A now-former general counsel of World Wrestling Entertainment and a law firm paralegal reportedly have suffered job repercussions over unrelated situations concerning, respectively, a party after a WrestleMania 26 event…
Two years ago, Cliff Lovette was doing legal work for Usher. Now the 54-year-old Atlanta entertainment attorney is practicing law out of his basement and collecting food stamps.
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