A Florida appeals court today reversed the child pornography conviction of a former elementary school principal serving a five-year prison term after finding that the face photos of 11- and…
The family of a 5-year-old boy who, at his teacher’s suggestion, was voted out of his kindergarten class by the other children has won a $350,000 settlement of a federal…
After laying off hundreds of employees in the last few months, a law firm and related company known for their mortgage foreclosure work on behalf of lenders are now themselves…
Hit hard by the recession and the crash of the real estate market, a South Florida law firm made layoffs, saw mass defections in some offices and instituted an 18…
Even if it seems like a nice idea, juvenile court judges should not go jogging with adolescent offenders, says the Florida Supreme Court, in a recent ethics advisory opinion.
The layoff tally has now reached 900 at a mortgage foreclosure processing company hard-hit by an onslaught of client departures after questions were raised about the validity of its paperwork.
A Florida lawyer who’s gotten national publicity as an expert in foreclosure defense has one thing in common with his clients–he’s fighting to keep his home, too.
American Express tentatively agreed to pay $50,000 plus 65 percent of the illegitimate business expenses of high-profile lawyer Scott Rothstein today in an effort to return cash to victims of…
Following a Rolling Stone expose about how a judge in one Florida court handled foreclosure cases on Jacksonville’s “rocket docket,” officials swiftly made changes to improve public…
In what the law school dean at the University of Miami is billing as a groundbreaking program to help jobless grads, it has established a new program that will pay…
Charged with vehicular homicide after a 28-year-old Iraq war veteran died in a Florida car crash, Andrew Gaudioso, who reportedly had drugs in his system at the time and allegedly…
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