In a week already packed with news about alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball during the past decade, another player has taken center stage.
The litigation over a fatal accident in which a Texas judge’s daughter was convicted of intoxication manslaughter and sentenced to a brief jail term has just gotten a bit more…
Three tech company clients have sued Foley & Lardner, contending that the law firm overbilled them for unnecessary work and didn’t effectively pursue their case as plaintiffs in federal patent…
More than nine years after 14 lawyers leaped from a well-known New Jersey partnership to Lowenstein Sandler, a trial is nearing over claims that the 260-attorney firm went too far…
A mergers and acquisitions partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft describes a hectic four days working on pharmaceutical maker Pfizer’s $68 billion buyout of Wyeth.
A federal appeals court has ruled that Taco Bell—and not its ad agency—is responsible for paying $42 million in damages and interest to two cartoonists who claimed the fast-food giant…
A New York real estate lawyer pleaded not guilty today to two counts of second-degree grand larceny for allegedly pocketing nearly $500,000 in payments while serving as a middleman in…
A Delta Airlines flight attendant who contends she was denied opportunities to travel for free on a rival airline to her job assignments because she wasn’t dressed provocatively enough has…
Tenants have complained about blighted views, possible fire safety issues and, in at least one apparent contract-based claim, an adverse effect on their business. But, at least for now, so-called…
If they go bankrupt, real estate investors who don’t live in the homes they purchase can ask a judge to reduce the principal balances on their mortgage loans.
A former associate of Nixon Peabody has filed an employment discrimination suit against the international law firm, saying that he was fired last year because of his gender, race and…
In a move that is expected to expedite proposed federal legislation permitting bankruptcy judges to reduce the principal balance on troubled mortgages on owner-occupied properties, a major bank is supporting…
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