The city attorney for Brea, Calif., apologized Tuesday for muttered remarks picked up by a microphone broadcasting a city council meeting live on cable TV.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will allow mortgage servicers to choose their own foreclosure law firms after some firms in the mortgage giants’ discounted attorney networks were caught up in…
A plan by the Department of Justice to close regional antitrust offices in Atlanta, Cleveland, Dallas and Philadelphia likely will result in de facto layoffs of veteran antitrust attorneys.
Lawyer Alisha Smith says she has quit her job at the New York Attorney General’s office after her employer didn’t give her a chance to respond to a New York…
A law firm has fired an employee accused of stealing a little over $13,000 from an elderly couple he apparently met while going door-to-door collecting past-due taxes for the city…
A Utah district court judge yesterday dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit brought against the state by the parents of a 12-year old boy who was attacked by a bear while…
Six civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit against South Carolina today, seeking to block a recently passed law that calls for law enforcement agents to check the immigration status…
Faced with state takeover, the Harrisburg, Pa., city council yesterday evening voted to seek Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. According to Bloomberg News, the state’s capital city…
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati says it built an “ethical wall” around a lawyer married to an energy department official who pushed for a loan to Solyndra before its collapse.
With as much as $100 million in unpaid filing fees at issue, another Texas county is pondering possible litigation against those responsible for an electronic system that circumvented the traditional…
After a partial defeat in its effort to block enforcement of a contraversial new immigration law in Alabama at the federal district court level, the U.S. Department of Justice is…
The Indiana Supreme Court yesterday ordered the interim suspension of a lawyer accused last year of kicking in a door, committing a battery on her boyfriend and carrying a knife…
A Muslim woman who reportedly was jailed for contempt of court after she refused to remove her religious head covering when she tried to accompany a nephew to a Georgia…
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