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.
Following the recent arrest of two members of an online group that promotes practical jokes, fewer onlookers apparently may be finding the Pranknet antics funny.
Saying that DuPont engaged in “a deliberate scheme to interfere” with the court’s rulings during more than a decade of litigation over damage allegedly done to Ecuadorian shrimp beds by…
Rejecting a recommendation that a Minnesota judge should be removed from office for steering matrimonial mediation cases to his own divorce attorney, the state supreme court has suspended him for…
A former employee in the accounting department of a Maryland law firm has pleaded guilty yesterday to wire fraud and arson concerning a fire he allegedly set in order to…
A lab technician was arrested today and charged with the murder of a 24-year-old graduate student whose body was found this weekend in the Yale University building in which both…
A law firm may showcase successful verdicts and settlements on its website, as long as enough information is provided and an “appropriate disclaimer” is included, according to a North Carolina…
A Texas baby sitter who has served nearly seven years in prison after her conviction for shaking a baby to death has filed an appeal citing a medical examiner’s revision…
A Los Angeles federal judge has announced he is resigning because the stagnant salary makes it difficult to support his seven children, all under the age of 18.
A former managing partner of the Atlanta office of Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi is leaving the 250-attorney firm after 23 years there to join a small competitor.
Some 800 people attended the funeral of Finn Caspersen in Morristown, N.J., yesterday, alternately laughing and crying as the 67-year-old philanthropist and heir to the Beneficial Corp. fortune was remembered…
What a difference a year makes. It wasn’t unusual for a BigLaw firm in Texas to make offers to almost all the law students in its summer program as recently…
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