240 ABA Journal Delaware articles.
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…
Apr 8, 2016 10:30 AM CDT
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…
Mar 16, 2016 11:00 AM CDT
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…
Mar 4, 2016 2:05 PM CST
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…
Feb 19, 2016 10:15 AM CST
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…
Feb 1, 2016 5:00 PM CST
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…
Jan 19, 2016 4:35 PM CST
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,…
Dec 10, 2015 4:10 PM CST
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…
Oct 16, 2015 11:40 AM CDT
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…
Sep 30, 2015 9:10 AM CDT
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…
Sep 16, 2015 12:10 PM CDT
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…
Aug 26, 2015 7:44 AM CDT
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…
Aug 18, 2015 4:10 PM CDT
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…
Aug 18, 2015 5:45 AM CDT
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…
Jul 29, 2015 7:49 AM CDT
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…
Jul 13, 2015 6:15 AM CDT
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