The National Organization for Women is asking supporters to call or write the judge presiding over the bench trial of a state senator accused of domestic violence.
The former chief legal officer at collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers jumped to a new law firm and taught a class this summer at Columbia Business School.
The Senate confirmed Gerard Lynch for the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the first federal circuit court nominee by President Obama to win approval.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff’s refusal to approve a $33 million settlement between Bank of America and the Securities and Exchange Commission has put two law firms into the spotlight.
Joining a small number of law schools nationwide that offer alternative start dates for first-year students, Pace University will be admitting its first midyear class in January of next year.
Remember Gordon Gekko? Famous for his philosophy that greed is good, the once-mighty corporate raider played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 movie Wall Street has been released from prison…
Growing up in a working-class ethnic neighborhood in New York City, Michael Corriero seemed a lot likelier to wind up standing in front of a judge than sitting on the…
A federal judge has declared a mistrial in a suit against the makers of Fosamax after jury deliberations turned contentious, resulting in shouting and a deadlock.
Confirming earlier news that former Yahoo Inc. vice president and associate general counsel of global patents Duane Valz would be joining Chadbourne & Parke, the law firm today announced his…
The Manhattan judge overseeing the first Fosamax federal product liability trial has ordered a cooling-off period after one lawyer reported hearing shouting from the jury room and a juror reportedly…
Four days after the Bank of America’s shareholders approved a merger with Merrill Lynch, the bank’s general counsel, Timothy Mayopoulos, was suddenly fired and escorted from the building without being…
Stymied in his efforts to determine whether the Bank of America and executives complied with disclosure requirements concerning its merger with Merrill Lynch by what he terms an “indiscriminate” use…
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