An Alaska mother who sought help from a national television show in disciplining a difficult child has now been charged with abusing a 7-year-old boy she and her husband adopted…
A Florida lawyer with a clean disciplinary record has been criminally charged based on allegations she forged a staffer’s signature on power-of-attorney documents in 2009.
It wasn’t merely $48 million that a bankruptcy trustee winding up the affairs of convicted swindler Bernard Madoff was seeking in a lawsuit filed in December…
A storm is gathering over a Florida judge’s order banning distribution of jury “education” material outside Orange and Osceola courthouses by a national nonprofit group.
Lawyers facing increasing pressure to “value engineer” their services have adopted a “better-faster-cheaper ethic,” leading to burnout and increased economic burdens for law firms.
Bratz doll maker MGA Entertainment has filed a new legal volley in the doll wars with a $3 billion antitrust lawsuit claiming Mattel, the Barbie doll company, engaged in anti-competitive…
Unsealed today in federal bankruptcy court, a $6.4 billion lawsuit filed late last year against JPMorgan Chase & Co. details the theories under which a trustee liquidating the business of…
A defense lawyer who moonlights as a screenwriter was among the recent attendees at a Los Angeles workshop hosted by the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
Unhappy about a judge’s jail sentence or fine in a misdemeanor harassment case, a defendant recovering from a broken hip with a cast on his leg reportedly began swinging his…
As foreclosures have surged in Florida and nationwide in recent years, even reverse mortgages that do not require any monthly payment and instead funnel money to the homeowner could soon…
A magistrate judge’s remarks about “institutionalized racism” and the potential for intolerance after the Sept. 11 attacks don’t violate the judicial conduct code, according to the chief judge for the…
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