A decision by Proskauer Rose to back out of a tentative agreement to occupy about half the space in a new building on the west side of Midtown Manhattan has…
A former client of a Pennsylvania law firm filed suit yesterday in Bucks County for malpractice, contending that his lawyer, Debbie Carlitz, didn’t tell him about a $100,000 settlement in…
Two Texas lawyers conspired with others to defraud clients who asked the attorneys to help them deal with credit card and other unsecured debt, contends a federal class action filed…
“Exhausted” from overwork and thinking that layoffs might be imminent, an attorney has written to the Dear Abby of the legal profession, asking whether this might be a good time…
Kenneth Loewinger has written a treatise on landlord-tenant law in Washington, D.C., that is relied on by judges. But the veteran practitioner, who has been a lawyer since 1971, was…
Under traditional legal standards, a pet owner entitled to damages over the death of an animal gets only what it would cost to buy another pet from a breeder.
Hoping to show that Heller Ehrman was insolvent as early as 2007, creditors of the dissolving law firm are arguing that some $24 million in pension contributions were fraudulent transfers…
Upping the ante in a rash of admitted or alleged embezzlements by law firm administrators recently, a former bookkeeper has been accused of stealing $150,000 from a Virginia Beach legal…
Over the past five years, megafirm Baker & McKenzie almost doubled its revenue. But last year didn’t go as well for the Chicago-based international goliath, which earns about two-thirds of…
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