A 56-year-old Georgia securities law practitioner and another man have been criminally charged in federal court in North Carolina concerning an alleged interstate investment fraud.
When constitutional law scholar Ron Rotunda and his wife departed George Mason University School of Law last year for new jobs at Chapman University School of Law in California they…
A federal appeals court has cited the First Amendment in a decision that overturns a $5 million judgment against members of an anti-gay church who protested at a soldier’s Maryland…
A former employee in the accounting department of a Maryland law firm has pleaded guilty yesterday to wire fraud and arson concerning a fire he allegedly set in order to…
A federal judge in West Virginia has dismissed a lawsuit against the founding partner of a Pittsburgh, Pa., law firm accused of conspiring with others to file fraudulent asbestos claims…
A New York-based intellectual property boutique allegedly agreed that Raj Davé would be repaid the $92,000 in “working capital” he gave Darby & Darby while practicing there as a nonequity…
An attorney working as a legal secretary at McGuireWoods lost at trial and has now lost again on appeal in a case alleging that the law firm retaliated against her…
Washington, D.C., patent lawyer Matthew Pequignot did some investigating after spotting patent markings on the lid to his daily cup of coffee and discovered that the patent had actually expired…
Even as 43-year-old Anna Howell pleaded guilty to money laundering and mail fraud in federal court in Virginia yesterday, the former secretary and bookkeeper for Jessee & Read appeared upbeat.
A third North Carolina real estate attorney has reportedly agreed to plead guilty in a federal mortgage fraud conspiracy case that allegedly involved selling homes at inflated values in upscale…
A federal judge in South Carolina has granted an injunction sought by Craigslist Inc. in a declaratory judgment action against the state’s attorney general.
A lawsuit filed by the son of former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani over his dismissal from Duke University’s varsity golf team last year is in the rough, reports the…
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