A New York appeals court has ruled e-mails exchanged between a legal recruiter and Blank Rome were not an enforceable contract requiring the law firm to pay a recruiting fee…
A racketeeting suit claims former lawyers from the Milberg law firm colluded with an expert witness in an investor suit against the troubled Stratosphere casino in Las Vegas.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said yesterday that he has persuaded 15 of the top 20 bonus recipients at AIG to return the money, and it may be possible…
An attorney who made $144,070 a year as deputy commissioner and counsel for the New York Division of Human Rights has lost his job over $530 in charges to a…
Acting just one day after oral arguments, a federal appeals court has denied bail for Bernard Madoff, who is awaiting sentencing for operating a $65 billion Ponzi…
A lawyer who represented a tenant in a rent-stabilized apartment in New York City for almost three years initially got nothing for his work. Then, soon after attorney Steven DeCastro…
Seeking to reduce his divorce settlement in a state that still attributes fault between spouses in divorces, a New York lawyer tried to get “liberal discovery” concerning his claim that…
A new indictment against New York lawyer Marc Dreier now alleges he sold $700 million in phony promissory notes to investors, an amount $300 million higher Mar 18, 2009 11:15 AM CDT
The judge overseeing the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy no longer faces misdemeanor charges stemming from accusations that he slapped his wife during a quarrel.
Prosecutors sought dismissal of charges yesterday against…
A year after a judge denied a motion to dismiss, an unusual “libel in fiction” case filed against the popular Law & Order television show by a New York lawyer…
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