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…
A proposed $33 million settlement by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve allegations that the Bank of America didn’t disclose to investors that it was to pay $3…
Unhappy about brutal budget cuts being made to help California eliminate a $25 billion deficit, officials are turning to the ultimate lobbying powerhouse. Litigators.
A lawyer who hired the South Carolina law firm Motley Rice to represent him in a suit against the law firm that handled his divorce has turned around and sued…
Supporters of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya plan to ask the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to pursue those responsible for her murder, after a Moscow court refused…
A law firm is suing a former KPMG partner, saying that he hasn’t paid $1.3 million of the legal bill that Kostelanetz & Fink racked up while successfully defending him…
As Michael Jackson geared up earlier this summer for a series of planned London concerts, a $17.5 million Lloyd’s policy insured promoter AEG Live against his non-appearance “resulting from accident.”
A federal judge has refused to approve an agreement by Bank of America to pay $33 million to settle allegations by the Securities and Exchange Commission that the bank misled…
Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the former CEO of the American International Group, has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a complaint by the Securities and Exchange Commission accusing him of…
After an Oregon state-court judge ruled in June that a Portland ordinance banning individuals from sitting or lying on the sidewalk was unconstitutional, authorities are reportedly trying new tactics to…
An attorney working as a legal secretary at McGuireWoods lost at trial and has now lost again on appeal in a case alleging that the law firm retaliated against her…
Evidence unsealed last month in a complex federal case against a drug manufacturer shows that Wyeth paid for at least 40 ghostwritten articles in medical journals promoting the use of…
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