The law firm of Bickel & Brewer won’t be allowed to represent one of the heirs of oilman H.L. Hunt in a squabble over control of two multibillion-dollar family trusts.
A will disinheriting descendants who marry outside the Jewish faith is at the center of a legal fight in Illinois that has produced an appeals court ruling and an appeal…
Lawyers from two of the most prominent firms in Dallas squared off in a federal courtroom packed with other distinguished attorneys today in a high-profile client conflict argument that could…
When higher-ups at a Long Island elder law and estate planning firm realized that more than half the firm’s staff didn’t have their own affairs in order, managers took action.
In a long-running dispute involving claims that the federal government has swindled American Indians under a trust account system created more than 100 years ago, a federal judge has sided,…
When members of the board of trustees of Randolph College needed to shore up the school’s endowment last fall, they turned to the school’s Maier Museum of Art.
A central California woman who has been without food or water since July 14 is now back on life support again, after a state judge ordered that a feeding tube…
If it holds up in court, hotel magnate Leona Helmsley has left in trust a staggering sum to help care for the nation’s dogs after her death—somewhere between $5 and…
The pet dog of deceased Leona Helmsley is losing $10 million of the $12 million that the 87-year-old hotel heiress left him in her will when she died last year,…
A prominent Texas law firm reportedly may have to repay up to $1 million in legal fees in a trust litigation matter, even though they were authorized by a state…
Prosecutors are expected to issue a subpoena seeking the names of wealthy U.S. clients using the services of Swiss bank UBS AG to avoid income taxes. Ultimately the probe could…
A New York appeals court has reinstated a $20 million malpractice and fraud suit brought by a grandson of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst against the grandson’s wife and the…
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