The U.S. Department of Justice has filed suit against a subsidiary of a global oil company, contending that two discharges totaling some 200,000 gallons of crude oil into Prudhoe Bay…
A once-groundbreaking system of helping injured New York workers obtain treatment and reasonable compensation from their employers is now a struggling $5.5-billion-a-year state-run “subbasement of the legal world” in which…
Siding, for now, with a municipality suing over the loss of $42 million from its pension fund, a Connecticut judge has temporarily frozen the assets of Bernard Madoff’s wife, brother,…
Blaming a former company lawyer for the criminal case against her, an executive of Stanford Financial Group has sued the lawyer, Thomas Sjoblom, and Proskauer Rose, the…
A former New York art dealer is now included among an elite group of alleged white-collar master manipulators recently accused of defrauding others of monster sums.
A London-based megafirm has made a second round of associate layoffs in its New York office, and it is pushing back the start date for its incoming class of associates.
In the wake of unprecedented emergency federal spending to deal with the nation’s dismal economy, the Obama administration is now asking financial experts to help figure out how to increase…
A receiver for Stanford Group Co. has asked a federal judge in Dallas to order a law firm that represented an Antigua-based bank at the center of a claimed $8…
Adding to an ongoing trend of looking to the Middle East for new legal business, two major international law firms are establishing a bigger foothold in Dubai.
An investor who says he lost $1.85 million in a claimed $397 million fraud allegedly orchestrated by Arthur Nadel is accusing an international law firm of having helped prepare documents…
Four individuals who say they were tortured while held prisoner at the Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq can sue a U.S. defense contractor whose employees allegedly participated in the…
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