Federal prosecutors lost their bid to seek control of a California biker gang’s name and logo, featuring a Genghis Khan-like figure riding a motorcycle.
Joseph Stiglitz, an economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner, is suing his former lawyer for $1 million for professional negligence, on the basis that had she been quicker filing his…
James “Whitey” Bulger, the 81-year-old fugitive and alleged killer recently captured by the FBI, was expected to ask for a court-appointed lawyer today, despite reports that $820,000 in cash was…
A man who mistakenly believed he was HIV positive for five years because of a mistaken diagnosis may sue for negligent infliction of emotional distress, an appeals court has ruled.
Corrected: If the proposed $8.5 billion New York state court settlement between Bank of America Corp. and mortgage bondholders is approved, the small Houston law firm representing the plaintiffs will…
A Texas appeals court has overturned an arbitrator’s $22 million award because of his social contacts with the Fish & Richardson lawyer whose client won the case.
A prosecutor slated to become president of the North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys has filed an alienation of affection suit against another lawyer who is the godmother to her…
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