Greenberg Traurig has ousted a Los Angeles partner accused of altering offering documents requested in an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Faced with a $4.2 million claim by a deceased name partner’s widow, a Florida-based asbestos law firm has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy seeking respite.
Faced with a lawsuit over a “profit” of nearly $48 million purportedly earned on a $523 million investment with record-breaking Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, the owners of the New York…
Mark Frost has been through some hard times since the breakup of his New Jersey law firm, so he sought a reduction in the $9,500 per month alimony he is…
A divorce lawyer’s retainer agreement that included an optional “success bonus” isn’t unethical, a judge has ruled in an ethics case filed by Connecticut disciplinary officials.
Capping an action-packed appellate week for the Illinois courts, Chicago election officials and a well-known city mayoral candidate, the state’s top court has just ruled—little more than 48 hours after…
Slapping a teenage child isn’t admirable. But it also falls short of establishing a basis for removing the girl from her home, even when that home has a broken furnace…
Detailed information about former Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas’ household finances is now public knowledge after a law firm apparently inadvertently filed in Los Angeles Superior Court typewritten notes of…
After persuading a federal judge that a plaintiff’s lawyer waived privilege by operating as a “political operative” in conjunction with the making of a documentary film, a corporate defendant in…
As police in St. Petersburg, Fla., mourn two fallen officers who were slain as they tried to arrest a violent suspect and rescue a colleague who had already been shot…
A former Chicago police commander who is accused of having played a leading role in widespread torture of minority suspects decades ago will be able to keep his $3,000-a-month pension.
When South Jersey Legal Services had to lay off 30 employees last year due to funding cuts, four former workers there saw an opportunity to “bridge the justice gap.”
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