A federal judge in Colorado has ordered Seyfarth Shaw and its client, a subsidiary of the Stryker Corp., to pay nearly $275,000 as an additional sanction for improper discovery tactics.
Updated: Fenwick & West was the only law firm “entrusted with a bird's-eye view” of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading, according to a report by an independent court-appointed examiner in the bankruptcy of FTX and affiliated entities.
Legal malpractice is costing law firms big bucks, and it’s expected to fetch even more soon. Multimillion-dollar payouts increased year over year, according a 2023 report comparing 2022 numbers with the prior year report by Ames & Gough, a business insurance and risk management consultancy.
Former President Donald Trump said this weekend he “would actually” consider Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for U.S. attorney general if he returns to the White House.
The smoke is finally clearing on decades of stigma. On Thursday, the White House Office of Management and Budget signed off on a proposal for the reclassification of marijuana, puffing the way forward from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug.
Sullivan & Cromwell is seeking dismissal of a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that it aided and abetted fraud when it provided legal services at cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
A federal law authorizing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to draw funding from the Federal Reserve System does not violate the appropriations clause, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the U.S. government from trying to limit credit card late fees, siding with banks and other business lobbyists that had challenged the policy as unconstitutional.
A federal judge has allowed a disappointed pistachio ice cream consumer to proceed with her deceptive-practices case against the corporation that owns Cold Stone Creamery.
After more than two years of fighting against return-to-office mandates, workers are fed up with their bosses’ inflexible policies and are taking their battle to court.
Updated: A May 1 lawsuit alleges that two pro-Palestinian groups are Hamas propagandists that are involved in campus protests in an effort to justify violence against Israel and Zionists.
A Massachusetts businessman has filed a $300 million racketeering lawsuit against Dentons and Boies Schiller Flexner alleging that the law firms failed to inform him that his contract to develop a power plant in Senegal, a country in West Africa, was invalid.
An emergency slide that detached from a Boeing 767 plane on Friday washed up on the beach near the New York home of a lawyer whose law firm has sued the aerospace company.
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