Actress Kirsten Dunst was the star witness today in a New York trial of a mechanic accused of stealing a $13,000 Balenciaga handbag from her swanky Soho Grand penthouse suite…
Attorney Howard Stern is facing new charges in a case against him and two physicians concerning their alleged involvement in the drug overdose death in 2007 of his former girlfriend,…
A dermatologist to former King of Pop Michael Jackson has sued a rival California physician for libel, contending that the doctor’s comments to a British tabloid newspaper has harmed his…
Updated: Wrestling star Hulk Hogan has sued two Florida attorneys, contending that they charged more than $1 million to defend his son in an auto accident case and related matters…
It sounds like a plot from a Lisa Reardon novel. But this criminal case isn’t fiction, and Reardon, rather than orchestrating the courtroom drama, is the real-life defendant.
When a criminal defendant dies while his conviction is being appealed, the federal courts dismiss the charges, as happened in the case of Enron executive Kenneth Lay.
Seeing a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company create an animated desk-lamp character on the silver screen that apparently was based on its own actual lamp design didn’t bother a…
Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, was the victim of identity theft after his wife’s purse was stolen from the back of her chair at a Starbucks coffee…
Just hours after a Los Angeles judge yesterday sentenced Chris Brown to five years of probation for assaulting his ex-girlfriend and fellow pop star, Rihanna, the 20-year-old singer was reportedly…
A slew of expensive estate litigation following the death of founding partner Ed Masry in 2005 has helped drive the law firm that made its former paralegal, Aug 26, 2009 6:54 PM CDT
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