Refusing to vacate a landmark ruling in March that is likely to create a lot of work for real estate lawyers, a Massachusetts judge today held banks accountable for failing…
Already dealing with a deluge of mortgage foreclosures, courts in Massachusetts now have a new problem. And, although litigation over the issue is farther along there than in a number…
A former Wal-Mart pharmacist who contended she was fired on a trumped-up disciplinary charge after she complained she was paid less than male counterparts by the giant retailer is entitled…
Attendance was way up yesterday at a Harvard Law School entertainment law class after Tom Cruise made an unexpected appearance along with a celebrity lawyer who was serving as a…
A former Massachusetts real estate lawyer and title company agent has pleaded guilty to criminal charges concerning what a prosecutor says was a “mortgage stacking” scheme in which he obtained…
Massachusetts’ highest court is keeping a former lawyer behind bars for at least another 30 days so a lawyer who listened to his recorded jailhouse conversations to find missing money…
A high-school dropout with two children who went on to get her general educational development certificate, graduate from college and earn a juris doctor degree so that she could represent…
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