A South Florida lawyer reportedly has been disbarred and is now facing criminal forgery charges for allegedly lying to a mortgage-rescue client and falsely claiming to have obtained a dismissal…
As he gave a high-profile defendant in an options-backdating case the probation and home confinement recommended in a presentence investigation, a federal judge in Los Angeles yesterday also offered a…
A California public defender won’t be prosecuted for reportedly issuing an in-court challenge to a deputy district attorney to duke out a dispute over a hearing date in a drug…
In what a Bloomberg columnist is calling the “stupidest lawsuit ever,” government-funded Freddie Mac, which has been shored up by taxpayer bailout money, is suing the feds.
A retired in-house lawyer’s announced intent to rely on claimed legal advice from outside counsel in defending against criminal accusations of wrongdoing concerning her work at GlaxoSmithKline raises tricky privilege…
Cartoonist and graphic novelist John Backderf was excused from jury service in Ohio last week when he offered an unusual answer to the routine query about knowing any convicted criminals.
Seeking to defend itself aggressively in a hard-fought age discrimination suit brought by a former $88,000-a-year paralegal in its Washington, D.C., office, Mayer Brown is seeking to discover portions of…
An Oregon district attorney who has been on paid leave for months since an employee in his office reported him for a claimed sex crime to Pendleton police is now…
Threatened with a six-month jail term after his wife for the third year running sought a contempt order, a New York lawyer has narrowly avoided the slammer and purged a…
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