Accused of embezzling at least $2.2 million from clients over a two-year period, a former lawyer was found dead in his Indiana home early Sunday, hours before he was scheduled…
Two lawyers with offices in Kansas and Missouri didn’t want to meet with clients in courthouse stairwells, so they decided to take their office with them.
Two partners from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius who managed to win an acquittal on retrial for their death row client racked up another success this month in a related ruling…
Despite a highly publicized conviction concerning a dogfighting operation that elicited much public criticism, football star Michael Vick soon found another job with the Philadelphia Eagles after his release from…
A patent holding company has sued Foley & Lardner, claiming that the law firm disclosed confidential patent information learned during settlement talks.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is blaming two law firms for Bank of America’s failure to disclose $3.6 billion in executive bonuses it planned to pay to executives at Merrill…
A Houston personal injury lawyer listened to opening statements Monday in his kickback trial for paying $3 million to two Hartford Insurance Co. managers and treating them to new cars…
A nationally known expert has concluded that a fire was not arson, a finding that contradicted trial testimony that led to the conviction and execution of a Texas man.
A 47-year-old New York real estate lawyer who has been working since 2002 at Excelsior Title has been criminally charged for allegedly stealing at least $400,000 from clients.
After a federal judge in Scranton refused to reconsider his earlier decision to reject their guilty pleas, two former Luzerne County, Pa., judges withdrew them today.
A credulous paralegal is facing a potential two-and-a-half-year federal prison term after apparently being duped by a convicted child molester into participating in a bizarre alleged civil litigation scheme. Its…
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