Martin Powelson paid off his delinquent Detroit mortgage. But after a law firm that handles a high-volume foreclosure practice mistakenly said told the lender that the redemption period had expired…
A former South Florida lawyer awaiting sentencing for running a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme tells a judge in a 12-page letter that he feels “overwhelming remorse and self-loathing” for harming…
A Florida appellate panel found a lower court didn’t abuse its discretion when it held a defense lawyer in criminal contempt after contacting a juror excused for a medical reason.
Forced to choose between her job and speaking on radio talk shows and at Tea Party events, a Florida prosecutor was fired this week after she refused to give up…
A Florida ethics opinion says a judge may speak about the foreclosure crisis at a high school rally on economic recovery, even though it’s possible President Obama will also appear…
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is defending the state’s payment of more than $120,000 for expert witness testimony by an anti-gay psychologist now caught up in the so-called Rentboy scandal.
As the Daily Pulp blog of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times reports a lawyer’s claim that disgraced ex-attorney Scott Rothstein stole $168 million of his $1.4 billion…
Last month, when a Florida judge delayed sentencing ex-attorney Jessica Miller in a client theft case, he offered a hint about what she might do in the meantime to win…
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