The Florida Supreme Court ruled last week that Gov. Charlie Crist had no consitutional authority to refuse to seat a new judge because he only had white nominees to choose…
Due to an unexpected deluge of deposit checks from accepted applicants this year, the University of Miami School of Law is urging incoming students to consider deferring their first year…
Well-known Florida trial lawyer Glenn M. Burton died Wednesday, not long after he was tapped by Florida’s governor to serve on the Tampa Sports Authority Board. He was 51.
A South Texas College of Law graduate has filed a $1 million breach of contract suit against prominent Florida criminal defense lawyer Cheney Mason, claiming the lawyer’s statements—on national TV…
Contrary to a recent New York Times report, the U.S. Department of Justice says it has no intention of backing off a high-profile federal lawsuit that seeks to force a…
When an associate in the Miami office of White & Case allegedly began an affair with a married woman, he presumably did not expect angry e-mails from her husband attaching…
Corrected: Finding that a former legal secretary for his firm failed to establish either a pattern of criminal activity or direct injury, a Florida judge has dismissed two counts of…
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to take a case that explores whether police should have to tell suspects that they have a right to have a lawyer present during…
A former Florida lawyer has been sentenced to 15 years of probation and an unspecified period of house arrest after pleading guilty to an organized scheme to defraud more than…
Former Mayer Brown vice-chairman Paul Maher is launching a new London office for Greenberg Traurig that reportedly plans to challenge some BigLaw traditions.
A federal appeals court has upheld a sanction of more than $371,000 against Crowell & Moring partner Peter Ginsberg for “overzealous litigation tactics” and “inflammatory statements” made in the course…
A Miami-Dade prosecutor has been suspended after he was accused of punching a late-arriving Domino’s pizza delivery woman who wasn’t able to gain entrance to his gated Miami Beach community.
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