Jan Douglas Atlas, the managing partner of the Fort Lauderdale office of Yoss is poised to depart with “several” other lawyers from the firm, reports the Mar 10, 2011 10:06 PM CST
Courts that oversee the thousands of foreclosure cases being pursued by the Law Offices of David J. Stern are reportedly in chaos, following news this week that the firm is…
A cash-strapped Florida school district is expected to consider tomorrow whether to pay $490,000 to a former senior associate general counsel who reported that his supervisor had allegedly made threatening…
A Florida law firm and an affiliated processing company that were grossing $260 million annually and employing some 1,200 workers as recently as 2009 may both be on their last…
A former general counsel of WellCare is among five ex-executives of the Florida-based company who were indicted by a federal grand jury in an alleged Medicaid fraud that is claimed…
A Florida law firm that has been struggling since the suspension last year of founding partner Henry “Hank” Adorno was reported earlier this week to be closing its West Palm…
At Cobb Cole—where five attorneys were laid off or left of their own accord last year—the attorney roster decreased to 24, and there were staff layoffs as well.
Pay freezes, staff layoffs and reduced billing rates, as well as other signs of economic stress, are becoming commonplace in law practice, respondents to the latest Florida Bar survey say.…
A former partner of the now-defunct Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm has agreed to pay up to $500,000 to settle a bankruptcy trustee’s claim that he received excess compensation while…
A disbarred South Florida lawyer has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for mail fraud and ordered to pay $3.9 million in restitution after pleading guilty to the…
Reviewing a tragic crime scene in which two St. Petersburg police officers were killed and a deputy United States marshal was injured by an armed man hiding in the attic…
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