The Center for Reproductive Rights and the state of Kansas have agreed to a $475,000 settlement of a lawsuit prompted by a sweeping 2003 attorney general opinion that required health…
A Pennsylvania nonprofit that claims it was overbilled by Reed Smith in a routine employment discrimination defense that was originally estimated at $50,000 and eventually racked up…
Adding another lawsuit to the mortgage foreclosure that entertainer Ed McMahon is facing, two New York law firms have reportedly sued the former sidekick to late-night television host Johnny Carson,…
At least 14 New York special districts that provide government services such as fire protection and garbage collection have private lawyers on the payrolls.
A federal judge in New York has blasted a Baltimore law firm for seeking “windfall” fees of 25 percent in four Sept. 11 settlements, which he also deemed to be…
A judge has tossed a lawsuit that had claimed WilmerHale “churned the representation” of the former chief financial officer of McAfee Inc. to inflate his legal fees.
Trial lawyer Willie Gary had sought $10 billion in a suit that claimed Motorola stole his client’s idea for a vehicle tracking system, but he has settled for considerably less.
A federal judge in Manhattan says a patent holder’s infringement suit was “based on “nothing more than a tissue of lies” and the lawyers who helped him sue should be…
The Arizona legislature is scrambling for a way to pay Kenneth Starr’s $910 an hour fee to defend the state’s spending on students who speak another language.
A small practitioner in Claremont, Calif., will reportedly be bringing in $50,000 per month for the next five years, under a five-year contract approved Tuesday by the Rialto city council.…
A hearing-impaired Nebraska woman who can’t hear what is being said through a speaker has filed a discrimination suit against a McDonald’s in Lincoln, contending that the fast-food restaurant wouldn’t…
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