Cell phone service providers reportedly are negotiating with the Federal Communications Commission to reduce future cancellation fees for unhappy customers in exchange for the federal regulatory agency’s agreement to eliminate…
Only a few of Chelsea Gorman’s closest friends knew she had been raped one night as the freshman was walking back to Vanderbilt University. Yet, months after the attack, the…
A part-time actress and elementary school teacher will get to remain anonymous for now as she seeks a $5 million claim against a jewelry company she claims violated her rights…
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.
Updated: It almost had to happen. Targeted in an ongoing investigated by the New York attorney general’s office as well as other state and federal agencies over possible public benefits…
Now that many states have laws in place to try to prevent payday lenders from bankrupting consumers with short-term loans at extraordinarily high interest rates, it turns out that a…
Updated: “Hundreds and hundreds” of New York lawyers will be implicated in a statewide scheme in which non-employees have improperly been enrolled in the public pension system, the state attorney…
As housing price declines steepen and mortgage default rates rise, Congress is considering legislation to give struggling homeowners an alternative to foreclosure in what many are calling the worst real…
Instead of providing the expected financial cushion in tough economic times, home equity lines are disappearing just when some owners—including attorneys—were relying on being able to use them.
Call them foreclosure factories, if you will. But two Minnesota law firms handle nearly half of the mortgage foreclosure work in the state—earning, one partner says, as little as $50…
The mortgage meltdown continues, as foreclosure statistics released yesterday by RealtyTrac make clear. Filings nationwide have more than doubled, compared to the first quarter of 2007, and are up 23…
The mortgage meltdown includes even some homeowners in the nation’s most affluent communities. But the rich, as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, are different than the rest of us. They have…
Updated: At least a dozen present and former attorneys at an Albany, N.Y., law firm are now reportedly being investigated by the state attorney general as part of an ongoing…
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