A growing tsunami of investigations, class actions and bankruptcies resulting from the U.S. mortgage meltdown has created a business boom in some BigLaw practice areas.
Former pro football defensive lineman Dana Stubblefield pleaded guilty in federal court in California today to making false statements to a federal agent about performance-enhancing drugs.
An almost-forgotten law in Kansas that allows citizens to convene grand juries reportedly has become a tool for local conservatives to use to force prosecutors to pursue abortion and pornography…
A Mississippi attorney has been sentenced by a federal judge to 6.5 years in prison and ordered to pay $5.8 million in restitution for pursuing baseless diet drug litigation on…
Actress Lindsay Lohan’s sentence in a recent misdemeanor drunken driving plea deal isn’t just the 84 minutes in jail she already served late last year.
The district attorney in Houston says he will ask a court to dismiss charges against Texas Supreme Court Justice David Medina and his wife, indicted yesterday in connection with an…
Clients of a disbarred Florida lawyer who pleaded no contest today to stealing some $200,000 from them are reportedly likely to seek leniency for the man they thought was representing…
Oops. Somebody apparently got their wires crossed at a business telecommunications firm in an upscale area of northern New Jersey. After offering Anthony Armatys a job in 2002, which he…
A paraplegic man has filed a tort claim against a Southern California hospital, seeking damages for being dumped, without a wheelchair, on a local skid row in a condition in…
The defense lawyer for a Brooklyn man accused in the death of his 7-year-old stepdaughter told jurors yesterday that the slain child was “a little Houdini” who needed to be…
Lawyers for Richard “Dickie” Scruggs are seeking to throw out taped conversations about an alleged attempt to bribe a state judge, arguing that one exchange suggests the judge wanted to…
Advocates for victims targeted during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s by organized crime figures in Northeast who were aided by ties to the local FBI are expressing outrage about…
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