Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines claims in a lawsuit that Miami lawyer Jay Wingate should give up about $1 million in attorney fees earned in worker-injury settlements based on confidential company…
In what the American Civil Liberties Union is billing as a first-in-the-nation lawsuit, the civil rights organization has filed a complaint against a South Florida school district contending that it…
Although authorities earlier said that a Florida lawyer found dead in a canal near her home last week might have been a random robbery and abduction target, they now believe…
A French client says he wired $3.8 million to a Miami Beach, Fla., real estate attorney’s trust account, with instructions to form six corporations and buy six condos by 2006.
Defense Department officials told the New York Times that a review has turned up 50 videotapes of interrogations at military facilities that show interrogations of two…
A government lawyer argued yesterday that a former partner at Greenberg Traurig covered up crimes at a Miami bank that was eventually shut down for fraud.
A stripper who is a longtime friend of a Florida appellate court judge says he helped her shield her assets from judgment creditors, but now owes her money.
The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that Florida trial lawyer Willie Gary isn’t responsible for $462,000 in back child support and he can’t be held in contempt for failing to…
A Florida attorney whose body reportedly was found in a canal near her home last week may have been abducted from her own garage as she pulled in one night…
Updated: Apparently irritated by the noisy call of a red-shouldered hawk as he was trying to tape an instructional video in Florida last year, National Tour pro Tripp Isenhour started…
Two Florida lawyers and their affiliated firms are accused in a lawsuit of making “sham” claims on behalf of consumers seeking to avoid payment of credit card debt.
After pleading guilty in a $1 billion federal securities fraud conspiracy case last year, Florida attorney Stephen Ziegler was sentenced to a five-year prison term and had his law license…
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