Just when it might seem that the saga of the $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme ex-attorney Scott Rothstein allegedly orchestrated under the guise of a South Florida law firm couldn’t get…
A former partner of McGuireWoods pleaded guilty today in federal court in New York to one count of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud concerning…
A prosecutor who was earlier exonerated in a legal ethics case concerning his possible personal relationship with a South Florida judge around the time he presented a death-penalty case in…
It isn’t just in Texas that a judge is accused of having presided over a capital murder trial while simultaneously having an inappropriate relationship with the prosecutor.
Angry over tickets he received for driving the wrong way in a parking lot and lacking proof of insurance, a Florida judge and former federal prosecutor got out of his…
Although ex-attorney Scott Rothstein reportedly made some $36 million in 2008 while both serving as managing partner of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler and operating a Ponzi scheme, he apparently may not…
Although a 40-year-old trainer drowned by a 12,000-pound dominant male orca whale at SeaWorld this week is the third human death linked to this individual animal, experts are debating whether…
A judge overseeing the bankruptcy of the dissolving South Florida law firm at the center of a claimed $7 billion Ponzi scheme says he will order two former partners to…
Life hasn’t been going well for attorney D. Howard Stitzel III in recent years, as he struggled with six-figure debt and health problems and got pushed out of his law…
The first city in the country to ban the declawing of cats has enacted another groundbreaking animal rights ordinance. West Hollywood, Calif., this week prohibited “companion animal” stores from selling…
A federal magistrate judge in Florida has given the green light to a former high school student’s lawsuit against her principal, not only ruling against Peter Bayer’s motion to dismiss…
Little known in BigLaw circles, a 16-attorney South Florida law firm has hired the managing partner of Greenberg Traurig’s office in Washington, D.C., to open its new…
In the latest blow to U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors pursuing high-profile charges, a federal judge today dismissed the obstruction and conspiracy case against two men accused of ordering the…
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