A lawyer and a prosecutor in Alabama were reportedly arrested at a law office Wednesday as they were accepting a check for $1 million allegedly obtained in a civil case…
Orlando lawyer Gary Elvin Doane is a solo practitioner—not that there’s anything wrong with that. He is not certified as a specialist by The Florida Bar in all areas of…
An Illinois attorney has had his law license suspended for two years over a combination of admitted misconduct, including two drunken-driving arrests and videotaping five women in sexual activities at…
Two lawyers who themselves were victims of a former partner’s $17 million fraud have been suspended for failing to do enough to catch Anthony Bellettieri in wrongdoing as he stole…
News of a law firm that charged nearly $6,000, including $60 for an eight-word e-mail, for a review of an office sublease, got a lot of reader response.
As potential layoffs loomed last year, three BigLaw associates in Southern California decided to form their own corporate and investor-side bankruptcy firm, even though they didn’t yet have a book…
Two years ago, Cliff Lovette was doing legal work for Usher. Now the 54-year-old Atlanta entertainment attorney is practicing law out of his basement and collecting food stamps.
Last month, when a Florida judge delayed sentencing ex-attorney Jessica Miller in a client theft case, he offered a hint about what she might do in the meantime to win…
Chicago solo practitioner Edmund Benedict Moran Jr. says he breathed a sigh of a relief when a federal appeals court ruled Monday that a typographical error leading to a technical…
When a Utah lawyer needed to persuade a jury that an Ogden City golf cart path had been negligently designed, he found his MacIntosh iPad a handy tool.
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