The fallout from revelations that the one-time King of Torts was involved in a judicial bribery scandal continues this week with news that a Jackson, Miss.,…
An indictment in Guam against Greenberg Traurig that arose from alleged misconduct by the law firm’s former lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, has been resolved with a civil settlement and dismissed.
Ninety lawyers in New York state may have collected tens of millions of dollars in fraudulent pensions from school districts that improperly listed them as employees, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo…
As a hearing before the Detroit City Council that has put a number of lawyers in the hot seat continued for a third day today, observers got an unusually detailed…
In a case that may be something of a signpost pointing to further litigation related to the subprime mortgage crisis, a bankruptcy trustee has filed suit against major investment banks…
An Ohio attorney who disappeared for several days last year while pregnant and later falsely claimed to have been kidnapped at gunpoint, has been sentenced to probation and a $300…
The Justice Department has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years, sparing those companies the cost and stigma of going to trial.
A lawyer who funded a lavish lifestyle by stealing most of the $3.5 million intended to fund a lifetime of care for a paralyzed client has been sentenced to a…
Disgraced plaintiffs lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to reject a petition to have him disbarred, arguing that the effort is premature.
Tort lawyers don’t come any more successful than Mississippi’s Dickie Scruggs. Now that he’s been accused of bribery, there are questions about how he achieved so much.
The federal judge overseeing the unprecedented case against the former Milberg Weiss has declined to dismiss a money-laundering conspiracy charge against the firm even though all the principal targets in…
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