A Pennsylvania lawyer has been freed after spending more than 14 years in jail for refusing to give his ex-wife more than $2.5 million in a divorce settlement.
A Hartford, Conn., lawyer held hostage by her husband for more than nine hours on Tuesday managed to escape by unscrewing an eyebolt on a basement wall to which she…
A Hartford, Conn., medical malpractice defense lawyer managed to escape her home after her ex-husband held her hostage for more than nine hours yesterday. Soon afterward, the home became engulfed…
A law firm in Chattanooga, Tenn., has been sued for $2 million by a man who says one of its lawyers tried to use improperly intercepted e-mail in a divorce…
Complicating a potential legal battle over the custody of Michael Jackson’s children, it appears possible that none of the three may be biologically his.
Updated: Legal experts say Michael Jackson’s ex-wife has a strong legal claim to custody of his two oldest children, but that isn’t stopping the pop star’s mother from waging a…
An alienation of affection lawsuit is a relic of legal history in most states. But not in Illinois, where a well-known automobile dealer has sued a plastic surgeon for allegedly…
Is Randall Kessler, the Atlanta-based celebrity lawyer, the first counsel to be dumped on Twitter? That was the question buzzing around the blogosphere.
Rejecting a recommendation for harsher discipline, the Louisiana Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded attorney Craig Mordock, saying that he violated legal ethics rules by filing a libel suit on behalf…
A Bronx trial judge used a divorce case as an opportunity to warn law firms that they ought to be more careful when sending inexperienced lawyers to do pro bono…
After Walter Forbes sold his Connecticut home to his wife of 27 years for $10, federal prosecutors decided they had to do something about his pending uncontested divorce.
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