A polygamist sect in Texas won the return of most of the 400 children removed from its ranch last year. But the group’s legal troubles are far from over.
A 200-attorney Boston-based law firm has further expanded its growing New York office by adding a six-lawyer trusts and estates group from Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Nikolas Colton Evans always wanted three sons. So, when he died after being punched and falling in a March 27 street assault in Austin, Texas, his mother, Marissa Evans, decided…
The brother of Bernard Madoff still can’t sell anything. But a judge in Long Island, N.Y., has amended an earlier asset freeze won by a 22-year-old Brooklyn law student so…
Often, the living have no obligation to pay the debts of dead relatives. But a growing legion of sympathetic debt collectors is seeking to persuade them to do so.
A New York judge has ruled that trustees of a fund established under the will of hotel heiress Leona Helmsley have sole discretion to determine how much of her multibillion-dollar…
Hiring—and trusting—a disbarred lawyer known for his 1980s involvement in a bizarre condoms-for-chickens scam was a mistake, a retired Michigan judge says.
“Former Clinton Township district court judge William Cannon…
Former Milberg Weiss partners Melvyn Weiss, David Bershad and Patricia Hynes (who is now senior counsel at Allen & Overy) are among several lawyers who are on a list of…
A New York man who married his longtime same-sex partner in Canada last year is entitled to inherit his estate as his spouse, a New York probate judge has held…
The ABA Journal wants to host and facilitate conversations among lawyers about their profession. We are now accepting thoughtful, non-promotional articles and commentary by unpaid contributors.