Outtakes that the director of the documentary Crude was ordered to produce to Chevron Corp. helped fuel the oil company’s argument that a New York lawyer acting on behalf of…
Corrected: For nearly five hours after Daniel Carlock was accidentally left behind by his charter dive boat, in the Pacific Ocean some 12 miles off the shore of Long Beach,…
Bowing to pressure from federal and state officials, a south Florida town has agreed to dim the lights along its beachfront to protect nesting sea turtles.
Long regarded as a leader in campaign finance reform, Minnesota until this year had some of the nation’s toughest laws on political spending by corporations. With the federal government and…
A bankruptcy trustee has joined a Mississippi family in challenging fees charged by a law firm and other companies involved in a mortgage foreclosure, on behalf of all similarly situated…
A $245 million federal securities class action settlement never would have been achieved but for its work in bringing the initial federal cases on which it was based, a Pennsylvania…
Lloyd’s of London doesn’t have any obligation to cover onetime billionaire R. Allen Stanford’s criminal defense costs under a $100 million policy of directors and officers insurance for his company,…
Updated: A California law firm has agreed to pay $550,000 to the state of New York and refrain from appearing before public pension funds there for the next five years,…
A lawyer and his firm are being paid a reasonable $850,000 per month to oversee the administration of a $20 billion fund set up by BP PLC to compensate victims…
Exceeding the prosecution’s recommendation of a seven-year sentence, a federal judge in South Florida today imposed a 10-year prison term on an aide to ex-attorney Scott Rothstein for her role…
Updated: Saying that consumers got little or nothing for hefty upfront fees and put their homes at greater risk of foreclosure by listening to purported home-rescue schemes marketed by two…
A federal judge in Atlanta yesterday okayed a $375 million settlement of a criminal case by Allergan Inc. concerning the company’s marketing of Botox drug…
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