A Calgary attorney says he is entitled to $30 million from Merchant Law Group and the Canadian government for his work on one of the country’s biggest personal injury cases.
A prominent South Florida criminal defense lawyer federally indicted in a controversial case concerning opinion letters he wrote approving attorney fees paid by a convicted Colombian drug kingpin to another…
After a scathing report from a special master reviewing his judicial discipline case, a longtime Michigan jurist is digging in for a longer-term battle to retain his seat on the…
Saying that the sanction was on the lenient side, a federal appeals court has upheld a $30,000 penalty against Jones Day for filing a frivolous counterclaim and,…
A recent law grad working on a massive diet drug case got a $3 million bonus and a Porsche when the civil fen-phen litigation settled for $200 million in 2001.
Updated: A Philadelphia jury has ruled a lawyer who helped a client negotiate a $4.9 million post-nuptial settlement must repay half of a $200,000 bonus she paid him.
Individuals can’t constitutionally be imprisoned in Texas for failing to pay a debt. But because a legal fee represents more than mere money, a state appeals court has upheld a…
A report released today by the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy takes aim at a “business model” in asbestos cases that relies on “flimsy medical diagnoses” and seeks to…
A magistrate judge in New York has refused to impose a sanction on JetBlue for destroying a document in a passenger’s lawsuit against the airline for failing to protect her…
A Florida judge has awarded almost $3 million plus interest to three law firms that claimed they were cheated out of fees by lawyers who hired them for settlement negotiations…
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