Hit hard by the recession and the crash of the real estate market, a South Florida law firm made layoffs, saw mass defections in some offices and instituted an 18…
Even if it seems like a nice idea, juvenile court judges should not go jogging with adolescent offenders, says the Florida Supreme Court, in a recent ethics advisory opinion.
The layoff tally has now reached 900 at a mortgage foreclosure processing company hard-hit by an onslaught of client departures after questions were raised about the validity of its paperwork.
A Florida lawyer who’s gotten national publicity as an expert in foreclosure defense has one thing in common with his clients–he’s fighting to keep his home, too.
American Express tentatively agreed to pay $50,000 plus 65 percent of the illegitimate business expenses of high-profile lawyer Scott Rothstein today in an effort to return cash to victims of…
Following a Rolling Stone expose about how a judge in one Florida court handled foreclosure cases on Jacksonville’s “rocket docket,” officials swiftly made changes to improve public…
In what the law school dean at the University of Miami is billing as a groundbreaking program to help jobless grads, it has established a new program that will pay…
Charged with vehicular homicide after a 28-year-old Iraq war veteran died in a Florida car crash, Andrew Gaudioso, who reportedly had drugs in his system at the time and allegedly…
A Florida Bar grievance committee has dismissed a complaint against a court-appointed criminal defense lawyer accused of billing the state for more than 24 hours on 41 different days.
Talk of a possible posthumous pardon for former Doors front man Jim Morrison in a 40-year-old Florida indecent exposure case has put his sole surviving defense…
A South Florida lawyer reportedly has been disbarred and is now facing criminal forgery charges for allegedly lying to a mortgage-rescue client and falsely claiming to have obtained a dismissal…
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