The former general counsel of investment bank UBS AG has rejoined Williams & Connolly, despite something of a blemish on his record—an agreement to pay $6.5 million to resolve an…
Used by some Republican senators as a rallying cry against the confirmation of new U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, her controversial “wise Latina” comment is now being proclaimed by…
After pleading guilty in federal court last year to transporting prostitutes across state lines to a meeting of a national men’s fraternal club of which he is…
Jessica Sparacino was still a law student when she landed a job as a paralegal at the Jackson Lewis office in Melville, N.Y. She worked there for a year after…
A 2004 codicil to Brooke Astor’s will was forged, a handwriting expert testified today in the 15th week of a high-profile Manhattan criminal trial against the deceased New York society…
When attorney Joseph Santo pointed at him in a Brooklyn courtroom, 17-year-old Victor Hernandez says, he didn’t think much about it as he went up to stand beside the lawyer.
Criminal defense lawyer Robert Simels testified Tuesday that his talk of needing to “neutralize” or “eliminate” a witness shouldn’t be taken as a threat to do physical harm.
The New York law firm Anderson Kill & Olick has raised more than $15,000 for charity by charging lawyers and staffers to wear jeans to work on Fridays.
Saying that an attorney’s representation of an 11-year-old client in a family law matter did not comply with court administrative and legal ethics rules, a New York appellate court fired…
A New York lawyer is among four upper-middle-class individuals who forged a bond via New York University, where three of them studied, and then allegedly went on to collaborate in…
Although a federal judge decided this month that a number of tape-recorded conversations between criminal defense attorney Robert Simels and a high-profile client would not be heard at trial, jurors…
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