Last week, Gerald Cowles was one of more than a dozen alleged drug dealers who attended an invitation-only meeting with Seattle authorities at which they were given an unusual choice:…
Law firm Dorsey & Whitney decided it didn’t need the huge expense of a corporate hospitality tent this year at the PGA championship outside Minneapolis.
The former chairman of Heller Ehrman is denying allegations by unsecured creditors that the firm distributed $9 million to partners above and beyond profits for 2007.
An 83-year-old woman can take her 87-year-old sister to trial over an alleged 1995 oral agreement that they would split the winnings if either one ever hit the jackpot, the…
Lawyer Ivan Bates is seeking $13 million in damages from the Baltimore Sun and two of its journalists in a suit that claims the newspaper’s articles falsely accused him of…
After getting a guilty verdict this morning from a jury hearing a second-degree murder case against rapper Corey “C-Murder” Miller, a Louisiana judge told the panel in the Jefferson Parish…
Updated: A North Carolina lawyer has been criminally charged with altering court documents, obstruction of justice, forgery and uttering concerning a plea deal she allegedly changed in a speeding case.
Thirty candidates have applied to be a federal magistrate judge hearing mostly misdemeanor cases while serving in a small courthouse that is nothing more than a gray clapboard structure.
Updated: Partners in the failed law firm Heller Ehrman will have to cough up $106 million in money distributed to partners in 2007 and 2008 if unsecured creditors in the…
Following news of a $60 million deal to make a feature-length film of hundreds of hours of Michael Jackson concert rehearsal footage, a Los Angeles judge said today that he…
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