Haas & Gottlieb had an agreement with its client, David Addison, that one-third of any money recovered in a bankruptcy litigation would go to the law firm.
A BigLaw firm and another well-known partnership face a likely seven-figure sanction for pursuing what a New Jersey judge described as a “ridiculous” frivolous claim on behalf of billionaire Ronald…
Updated: In a new incident among a spate of case-related violent attacks on lawyers in recent weeks, a Minnesota man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing his…
Upated: A 16-year-old girl from California on a solo round-the-world sailing trip who had sent a distress signal to her family and was feared to be lost at sea in…
In a case some might have thought to be a relic of legal history, a 41-year-old woman has been charged with adultery after allegedly having sex on a picnic table…
Accused of beating his attorney wife with a metal flashlight so severely that her mental functioning was impaired, a former White House lawyer charged with attempted murder and first-degree strangulation…
A California mom successfully used Facebook to search for the two children she hadn’t seen in nearly 15 years, after their father allegedly took them and told her she would…
A magistrate judge and a court clerk were shot to death today in Belgium as they were in a courtroom working on a civil case near the Palais de Justice…
An Arkansas mother who posted messages on her 17-year-old son’s Facebook account, making it look as though social networking messages she wrote came from him, has been convicted of harassment…
Angry over the property settlement in his divorce case three years ago, a bank guard shot and killed three judges in a different court in China today as they met…
Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel has fired a longtime real estate partner after questions were raised about his dual role, as an attorney and as a developer, concerning a planned…
After being held for months, an American Baptist missionary accused of attempting to take dozens of Haitian children out of the country illegally after the devastating earthquake in January has…
A judge in Utah has dismissed a protective order giving the state custody of a baby whose Arizona parents are accused of arranging to sell it for $6,000 to a…
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