When Betty Roberts attended her first judicial conference, a male judge groped her breast. And that was just one of a number of instances of what a newspaper reviewing an…
After moving in 2006 from Patton Boggs to Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, a six-lawyer public policy group has now shifted its operations to Crowell & Mooring.
The husband of Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been subpoenaed, along with aides who have refused to cooperate in an investigation of whether she improperly…
A California lawyer who has filed hundreds of disability lawsuits against businesses has been accused in an ethics complaint of extorting quick cash settlements and making up injuries.
A federal government office charged with overseeing the collection of some $4 billion in royalty payments by oil companies to the U.S. government allegedly operated more like an out-of-control fraternity…
A Justice Department sentencing memorandum claims disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff defrauded his employer, Greenberg Traurig, by asking clients to pay fees to different organizations.
Plaintiffs securities law firm Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins filed suit against Fannie Mae just one day after its takeover by the government was announced.
The chairman of the House Committee that writes the federal tax code failed to report more than $75,000 in rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic,…
Some corporate whistle-blowers who cooperate in fraud investigations are being rejected for protection from retaliation under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act because they work for a corporate subsidiary.
A former Republican congressman and Department of Homeland Security undersecretary who is now at Venable in Washington, D.C., says he is planning to give up his partnership there in order…
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