A New York lawyer with no prior disciplinary history has been suspended for three years after she repeatedly refused to get a required mental health examination concerning her false claims…
Corrected: Finding that a former legal secretary for his firm failed to establish either a pattern of criminal activity or direct injury, a Florida judge has dismissed two counts of…
A former client has sued the law firm that helped her win a $2,000 settlement in national diet drug litigation, contending that she suffered severe emotional distress because of the…
Exhausted from preparing for a murder trial, a Texas lawyer says, he had an accident en route to court on Tuesday and was charged with driving while intoxicated even though…
A disbarred New Jersey lawyer was sentenced to a 15-year prison term today for stealing about $4 million he was supposed to use for real estate closings and gambling it…
A federal jury in Minneapolis returned a verdict Thursday against a 32-year-old mother of four, saying she owes record companies an astounding $1.92 million for illegally sharing music on the…
James “Jamie” Perdigao didn’t even spend the nearly $30 million he bilked from his law firm and gaming clients there, so it was easy for the former star partner of…
Siding with a Chicago judge who challenged a state law that requires jurists to retire at age 75, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled today ruled today (PDF) that the…
A state court judge in Alabama ruled today that former HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy was responsible for the company’s fraud and ordered him to pay the company $2.87 billion…
Just in time for Father’s Day this weekend, a San Diego lawyer and the Oakland A’s have settled a controversial class-action lawsuit over a Mother’s Day giveaway in 2004.
Finding that United States and Nicaraguan counsel for plaintiff banana workers participated in a fraud on a California court, Judge Victoria Chaney today ordered that all defendants be reimbursed for…
A divided Michigan Supreme Court has approved a much-awaited rule of evidence revision that delineates the power of a courtroom judge to determine witness attire.
A former Florida lawyer has been sentenced to 15 years of probation and an unspecified period of house arrest after pleading guilty to an organized scheme to defraud more than…
A deposition yesterday in a lawsuit filed in an attempt to recover assets from O.J. Simpson to pay a $19.7 million civil wrongful death judgment has reportedly located the “lucky…
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