A Massachusetts lawyer accused of serving as a closing attorney on multiple deals in a Boston-area mortgage fraud case has been charged with a total of 27 counts of wire…
In the latest penalty assessed in an ongoing series attorney discipline cases resulting from a controversial secret settlement in a Detroit police whistleblower case, the lawyer who represented then-Mayor Kwame…
When Julia Morris started work at O’Connell, Flaherty & Attmore in 1994, there were 16 lawyers at the Hartford, Conn., firm. But she was the only woman among them.
Updated: A Philadelphia lawyer has been federally indicted for tax evasion, wire fraud and obstruction of justice, after allegedly diverting $380,000 from his clients that should have gone to his…
A federal judge has revived a once-dismissed claim by a former staff attorney at Covington & Burling that the law firm’s policies are discriminatory because they have a disparate impact…
A school district lawyer in North Carolina has been suspended, with pay, amidst allegations that he may have played a key role in the district’s reported failure to notify law…
Updated: Spurred by dreams of big-bucks awards under a new federal whistle-blower law, would-be claimants are flooding plaintiff’s firms with tips about alleged fraud at public companies.
Boston-based law firm Nutter McClennen & Fish has been top-ranked in an American Lawyer associates survey for three years in a row, and a culture of openness…
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