Upholding a small company’s stunning patent-infringement win against the world’s biggest software seller, a federal appeals court today not only upheld a $290 million verdict in favor of I4i LP…
Contending Dechert issued a “false” opinion letter used by then-practicing attorney Marc Dreier to defraud Fortress Investment Group, the private equity and hedge fund firm sued the legal partnership today…
Applauding the introduction of a bill in the House of Representatives yesterday that would restrict federal agencies from pressuring organizations and their employees to waive legal protections when they are…
Responding to a Pennsylvania malpractice suit contending that a major law firm should have detected an alleged fraud by executives during its internal investigation of a now-bankrupt beverage maker, K&L…
Granting a motion filed by insurer Lloyd’s of London, a federal judge in Dallas today found billionaire and accused swindler R. Allen Stanford and his counsel in contempt.
Citing prosecutorial misconduct, a federal judge in Southern California has axed a stock options backdating case against two Broadcom Corp. executives.
U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney found that the government…
A prominent Minnesota lawyer slated to become president of the state bar association in another two years was jailed over the weekend in a teen sex case and is reportedly…
A California lawyer who was apparently murdered last week outside his upscale Los Angeles home had gotten a restraining order in 2005 against a litigant who made comments that he…
A Los Angeles lawyer has pleaded guilty and agreed to accept up to a five-year prison term in a tax shelter scheme that involved a $35 million offshore account.
After an investigation into the sudden death last month of a 37-year-old Russian lawyer jailed on tax evasion charges after pointing the finger at claimed government corruption, the Kremlin has…
Amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, a federal judge in California is considering whether to acquit Broadcom’s former chief financial officer.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney to consider…
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