Some borrowers who say their lenders hid the true terms of their onerous loans are suing for fraud. One law firm that is eager to help is the Affirmative Defense…
In what is surely a record for any one U.S. city, five former Miami criminal judges are now holding court on reality television shows, and two were nominated for Emmy…
A real estate listing service that focuses on for-sale-by-owner properties is now offering to home sellers what it says is a nationwide first—an opportunity to purchase prepaid legal services for…
Updated: Cynthia Rodriguez, the wife of famed New York Yankees third baseman Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez filed for divorce in Florida today, alleging infidelity and emotional abandonment of his family.
Recent testimony by an ex-attorney in Florida and her former paralegal, office manager and best friend sheds considerable light on why their law firm had trouble managing its money and…
Banned from the main Broward County, Fla., courthouse and reassigned to work on traffic cases after a reported verbal altercation with another judge, Judge Jay Spechler resigned earlier this year.
The attorney general of Florida has sued Countrywide Financial Corp. over its mortgage lending practices, contending that they were deceptive and unfair and not properly disclosed in securities filings.
A complaint by a Miami lawyer to the Florida bar has prompted an investigation of a New York judge for possible violation of a registration rule in the Sunshine State.
A construction boom has had an unexpected cost to banks in Florida and other high-growth areas. Thieves are stealing heavy equipment and using it to make away with ATM machines,…
A Florida man facing a burglary charge is once again free on bond, after his lawyer persuaded a judge that he had seemingly violated the terms of his bond unintentionally,…
The law school at Florida A&M University says there is “no objective evidence” that a fen-phen lawyer’s $1 million gift to the school in 2002 came from tainted money.
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