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240 ABA Journal Delaware articles.

Corporate lawyer with ‘spotless record’ faces RICO case over client’s payday loan business

Wheeler K. Neff, 67, is a corporate and banking lawyer with “a spotless record with the Delaware bar” during his 40-year legal career, his lawyer tells a local newspaper.

Yet…

Delaware Chancery Court voids ‘unconscionable’ payday loan, awards borrower damages

Calling the terms of a $200 payday loan “unconscionable,” Delaware’s influential Court of Chancery voided it Monday and awarded the borrower $3,240 in damages, plus attorney fees.

Since plaintiff Gloria…

From loaded pistols to garden shears and Sharpie pens, court security officers have seen it all

Most people bring weapons and other contraband into Delaware courthouses by mistake, security officers say.

“They truly do not remember the extra-large pair of gardening shears”—or loaded pistols or other…

Widow, son and daughter of courthouse shooter get life terms in cyberstalking case

The widow, son and daughter of a man who fatally shot two women at a Delaware courthouse in 2013 have been sentenced to life terms in a first-of-its-kind federal cyberstalking…

Delaware puts capital cases on hold while death-penalty issues are mulled by state supreme court

After a U.S. Supreme Court decision in January that struck down a Florida death-penalty sentencing scheme similar to Delaware’s, the state’s top court has agreed to review questions about whether…

Shareholder suit asks why Viacom chair Sumner Redstone was paid millions, questions his competency

Board members of CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc. should have put their duty to the companies and shareholders ahead of loyalty to 92-year-old chairman and controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone.

But…

Authorities say paralegal stole nearly $440K, created fake real estate parties to cover up

A paralegal at an unidentified southern Delaware law firm stole nearly $440,000 from her employer’s trust account over a period of five years or more, authorities say.

Penni Enama, 50,…

More than 30 lawyers exit as law firm splits

Due to differing “strategic visions” and “philosophical beliefs,” a Mississippi law firm has undergone what at least one exiting partner describes as an amicable split.

More than 30 attorneys have…

Kramer Levin is sanctioned $135K for deposition conduct

A Delaware judge has ordered Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel to pay $135,000 for a deposition in which its lawyer repeatedly instructed a witness not to answer questions.

Chancellor Andre…

Temple law grad is charged with fatally shooting classmate during claimed drug deal

A Temple University law graduate found shot to death in his car last month near his family’s Delaware home was murdered by a classmate during an apparent drug deal, police…

Law grad is shot and killed; his body is found in parked car

A Temple University law graduate was found dead in his car in a nursing home parking lot in Delaware on Monday.

Police found the victim, 27-year-old Shazim Uppal, in the…

LeClairRyan opens in Delaware, its 3rd new office this year

LeClairRyan has opened a Delaware office, its third new location this year.

The office will be headed by Andrew Cole, a bankruptcy and corporate practitioner who previously worked for Franklin…

Lawyer’s repeated instructions to not answer deposition questions draws sanction for Kramer Levin

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel will have to pay attorney fees covering an opponent’s deposition costs because one of its lawyers repeatedly instructed a witness not to answer questions.

Delaware’s…

Former prosecutor is suspended for demeaning remarks, false denial about snitch threat

A former Delaware prosecutor has been suspended from law practice for his conduct during a death penalty trial that included disparaging and demeaning remarks about the pro se defendant.

The…

Suit claims sapphire purchased by lawyer for $9,000 is actually worth about $30

A lawyer in Wilmington, Delaware, says he paid $12,000 in 1999 to surprise his wife with a 4-carat pink sapphire ring on her birthday.

Lawyer Sam Frabizzio says the sapphire…

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