A default on debt tied to Boston’s John Hancock Tower highlights the kind of legal fights that will likely break out among investors who have varying rights to repayment after…
As in Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme, Bradford Bleidt stole $32.6 million by persuading those with social ties to give him money to “invest.” In Bleidt’s case, his…
A former FBI agent was sentenced today to 40 years in prison after being convicted last year of second-degree murder for telling gangsters about an agency tipster who was subsequently…
Adding to an ever-lengthening list of law firm layoffs, Boston-based Foley Hoag has announced that it is giving pink slips to about 32 associates and staff members.
A federal judge in Boston who has testified before a House committee on the merits of cameras in federal courtrooms has agreed to allow a live Internet broadcast of a…
A federal appeals court has refused to order the recusal of U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner based on the defendant’s claims she displayed a “deep-seated favoritism and antagonism.”
A veteran police chief of the Massachusetts town where an 8-year-old boy fatally shot himself while holding a machine gun at a weapons expo was indicted today along with three…
Massachusetts inmate Nick George Montos committed his first offense as a teenager and the last at the age of 78. The oldest prisoner in the state, he died Sunday at…
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has waived the usual requirement that all takers of the state bar examination must be graduates of an ABA-accredited law school for a licensed…
A Miami jury has convicted a retired FBI agent accused of cooperating with Boston’s Winter Hill Gang and providing information to gangsters that led to a South Florida murder in…
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