A new general counsel for Duane Reade Inc. may have thought he was saving his employer money when he allegedly settled a contract dispute with an ATM operator in 2009…
A New Jersey-based solo practitioner may proceed with her claim that New York law discriminates against out-of-state lawyers because it requires practitioners to maintain an office in the state, a…
For nine months, Supervising Judge Edwina G. Richardson-Mendelson has overseen the New York City judges who detain juveniles, many of whom suffer from some sort of mental illness.
A math class dispute among middle-schoolers in upstate New York led to a felony charge against an 11-year-old boy after he allegedly attacked with a sharp pencil a classmate who…
Asserting a claim for breach of contract, a graduate of New York University’s master’s in business administration program has filed suit in Manhattan federal court over his revoked MBA degree.
When real estate investor Max Sakow died in 1956, his handwritten will left one-third of his estate to his wife and said the other two-thirds should be divided equally between…
Police and education authorities have acknowledged they may have used bad judgment Monday when they arrested and cuffed a 12-year-old Queens girl who’d been caught doodling on her desk with…
The Bank of America today settled two Securities and Exchange Commission regulatory complaints over its handling of Merrill Lynch & Co. losses and bonuses by agreeing to pay a $150…
A closing attorney and a bank lawyer say they had nothing to do with alleged misrepresentations on loan documents that helped a New York woman obtain a home mortgage that…
A six-partner real estate group has left Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker and joined Haynes and Boone in what their new firm trumpets in a press release…
Eight more partners at White & Case are moving to Latham & Watkins offices in New York City; London; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
In an action that is sure to make other well-known law firms sit up and take notice, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Kelley Drye & Warren over…
A Manhattan judge has ordered personal injury law firm Morelli Ratner to pay a $6,000 sanction for bringing a “spiteful” and “wasteful” suit against a former client.
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