A New York lawyer has been disqualified from a matrimonial case and will have to pay as much as $42,500 for depositing into his escrow account and then evenly splitting…
Lawyers who refused to defend Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich at his impeachment trial say their decision was made in protest of an unfair proceeding rather than over…
There’s no question that Davis Wright Tremaine won a civil rights victory for a Seattle parents group by fighting all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court the local school…
A former assistant Santa Clara County, Calif., prosecutor is facing six felony charges for allegedly helping a client launder money through attorney fees paid to her trust account.
In what the 2nd Circuit describes in a written opinion as a close case, the appeals court has upheld a lower court decision to award no attorney fee to a…
Evan Chesler isn’t the first prominent lawyer to make the suggestion. But his call, in a January magazine article, to kill the billable hour used by most…
Thomas Mundy isn’t a lawyer. But he says he’s filed 150 lawsuits over the past 18 months, seeking to enforce a federal law that requires businesses to be wheelchair-accessible.
$1.4 billion is the projected amount of fees that lawyers, accountants and other professionals may earn from working on the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.
A former client has sued Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, claiming the law firm failed to advise him of the potential ramifications of a settlement with a former business…
The ABA Journal wants to host and facilitate conversations among lawyers about their profession. We are now accepting thoughtful, non-promotional articles and commentary by unpaid contributors.