A former bartender and waitress at a Houston’s restaurant in Hackensack, N.J., will square off against their one-time employer in a June 9 trial of their claims that they were…
A professor at New York Law School has won a Pulitzer Prize for her book exploring the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings.
Both Bruce Springsteen and a New Jersey woman who knows him because they have patronized the same health club deny that the legendary 59-year-old rocker is the “other man” in…
In a trial that begins today, New Jersey law firm Lowenstein Sandler is fighting a tort claim that it caused the collapse of another, smaller law firm.
A New Jersey lawyer, who by day practices entertainment law and by night plays guitar and tours the country with one of his two rock bands, has helped win a…
An appeals court in New Jersey has affirmed an $84,850 verdict against a lawyer who claimed his status as a contract partner meant he didn’t have a fiduciary duty to…
A New Jersey judge erred when he gave a plaintiff a “Sophie’s Choice” between pursuing her sex discrimination case against a former employer and caring for her mortally ill 89-year-old…
Apparently unhappy about his lawyer’s handling of a federal national-origin discrimination case in which he won an $80,000 jury verdict on a retaliation count, a tenured assistant professor of economics…
After a hostile takeover of a direct marketing firm in 2003, corporate counsel William Wachtel reportedly said in a management meeting that the best way to avoid paying severance to…
A major international bank has filed an unusual federal civil racketeering lawsuit in Seattle against a mortgage broker, an escrow agent–and 10 couples.
A disbarred lawyer who lives in Montvale, N.J., and his son, as well as four other licensed attorneys have been accused of participating in an $18 million mortgage racketeering scam…
A New Jersey lawyer who was disbarred for misappropriating mortgage settlement funds can’t be criminally convicted for the same conduct, a state appeals court ruled today.
The oldest federal prosecutor in the country celebrated her 80th birthday last week with an office party and birthday greetings from President Barack Obama.
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