With a glut of attorney jobs to fill before its fiscal year comes to an end in September, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has turned to a recruiter for…
Married, a father and a name partner in a Colorado law firm, Carl McGuire seemingly had his life structure set. Then he got the news that he was headed to…
The New Jersey Supreme Court in a 3-2 ruling has ordered the state schools to spend additional money on public education in poor school districts, an amount estimated to be…
Internal corporate investigations are a big business for the lawyers who conduct them—often former employees of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Over a decade ago, John Joe Gray got involved in an altercation with Henderson County sheriff’s deputies after a traffic stop, leading to a warrant for his arrest after he…
An Arizona judge last week gave a green light to a lawsuit seeking to force a well-known law firm to turn over copies of its bills for representing the Maricopa…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that neither the government nor two defense contractors can pursue billion-dollar claims in a contract dispute because of the possibility that state secrets will…
Sheila Birnbaum, who heads the mass torts and insurance litigation group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, has been selected to lead the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, the…
Chicago’s new mayor Rahm Emanuel has been talking about significant budget cuts, but his assistant corporation counsels’ jobs may be safe—the administration’s top lawyer, Stephen Patton, told the May 17, 2011 4:20 PM CDT
Whistle-blowers hoping to recover money by suing government contractors for alleged fraud can’t base their suits on information collected in freedom of information requests, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program by five men who claimed they were sent to other countries to be tortured.
Thousands of people told that they won U.S. immigrant visas through a worldwide lottery recently received disappointing news after a computer problem in the State Department program was discovered, and…
Judicial Watch, which describes itself as a conservative education foundation, filed a lawsuit today seeking the release of Osama bin Laden’s death photos and videos. It is one of many…
Updated: A federal judge in Utah has asked the FBI to explain why it hasn’t searched all possible databases and evidence rooms for surveillance tapes related to the 1995 bombing…
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