A former South Dakota lawmaker has copyrighted his own name and is forbidding newspapers to use it without advance permission, threatening a penalty of $500,000 or more if they violate…
Approached by a stranger business suit who wanted to teach prison inmates in Missouri to meditate, “I thought he was crazy at first,” state Circuit Judge David Mason tells the…
Regarding “No More Kabuki Confirmations,” October, about U.S. Supreme Court nominees and better ways of handling this challenge, I offer my view as one recently…
An arbitrator, rather than a judge, will hear claims by a former Toyota in-house lawyer that the automaker destroyed evidence in more than 300 rollover suits.
After casting the swing vote in an arbitration that upped the ante on New York City transit worker pay by 11.3 percent over three years, a Weil Gotshal & Manges…
An initial public offering for the Burford Capital litigation-financing fund has raised $130 million through the sale of 80 million shares on London’s junior exchange.
As 7,500 Americans came forward to reveal, before a partial amnesty deadline today, undeclared accounts in 70 countries, the Internal Revenue Service is gearing up for an enhanced effort to…
Once a dominant method of resolving credit card disputes between consumers and banks, mandatory arbitration of such cases could eventually be eliminated throughout the industry if Congress acts to prohibit…
An influential non-profit that promotes alternative dispute resolution is partnering with a little-known small company to promote an arbitrator rating service.
The ratings, which will be made anonymously by lawyers…
Rejecting a recommendation that a Minnesota judge should be removed from office for steering matrimonial mediation cases to his own divorce attorney, the state supreme court has suspended him for…
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