A defamation lawsuit brought by a gal pal of actress Lindsay Lohan against a well-known celebrity blogger didn’t turn out the way either the plaintiff or her counsel had hoped.
Law firms working on mergers and acquisitions typically get paid when and if a deal closes. That’s bad news for law firms working on deals that got delayed or fell…
Nearly 71 percent of large law firms surveyed hiked billing rates this year, with one firm charging rates of more than $1,200 an hour. The average partner rate, however, was…
Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht was fined $29,000 today after the Texas Ethics Commission determined he broke campaign finance laws by accepting, then failing to report what amounted to…
A public hearing is set for tomorrow to examine an allegation that Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht accepted an illegal contribution from a law firm.
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research released a report today advocating for a “loser pays” rule to help staunch the exorbitant litigation costs that arise from nuisance lawsuits…
Most on the in-house lawyers at large companies responding to an informal survey say they expect to cut back on the number of outside law firms they use over the…
Over the past 25 years, Cravath, Swaine & Moore has been representing plaintiffs in an employment discrimination case against government agencies in Jefferson County, Ala.
A losing party in a business dispute is suing its opponent’s law firm for offering a job to a New Jersey judge before he had distributed his final ruling in…
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