The founder of the Weather Underground decried his “demonization” in speeches yesterday at Georgetown University Law Center and a Washington D.C. church.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has refused to dismiss a lawsuit by two nonprofit groups seeking recovery of possibly millions of White House e-mails.
Although he was then chairman of the firm, Michael Hausfeld apparently didn’t even know that his fellow partners at Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll were holding a vote Nov. 6…
Chicago-based Winston & Strawn is planning to expand its practice significantly, with the help of attorneys from the dissolving Heller Ehrman law firm.
“Pending local regulatory approval in mainland China…
A Washington, D.C., lawyer who has filed high-profile lawsuits against police departments has been charged with laundering money that had belonged to a drug dealer before his shooting death.
A retired U.S. Navy commander has been criminally charged with allegedly faking a serious injury from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
A juror deliberating in the federal case against Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens reportedly lied when she told the judge that her father died and she needed to be excused.
A housemate of the friends with whom a Northern Virginia attorney was staying when he was stabbed to death in 2006 at their Dupont Circle townhome in Washington, D.C., has…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered prosecutors to turn over documents shedding light on a Guantanamo detainee’s claims of torture in a case that troubled the British High…
A federal judge’s definition of the term “enemy combatant” matches that used by the Pentagon in 2004 and more than 550 tribunals that reviewed the status of detainees at Guantanamo…
Hogan & Hartson is opening two new offices in Northern California with eight veterans from the dissolving Heller Ehrman law firm, including Heller’s former litigation practice…
Despite expectations of more litigation work because of the global financial crisis, the work hasn’t yet materialized. So one of the world’s biggest law firms has laid off 20 U.S.…
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