A federal judge has approved an apparent $4.25 million settlement by Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in a lawsuit by a bankruptcy receiver. The suit had targeted the law firm…
It isn’t just Australia and the United Kingdom where investors are making inroads into litigation-funding practices that once were the exclusive province of lawyers and, in individual cases, their clients.
After pleading guilty to a manslaughter charge and serving a prison term of more than three years for a punch that allegedly caused a neighbor’s death, a Connecticut man is…
For years, two small law firms with adjacent offices in Lexington, N.C., have been friendly competitors with multiple social connections between their respective attorneys. But now they are going to…
A lawsuit loan company that advanced $25,000 to an Atlanta lawyer and his law firm in exchange for a stake in the litigation has filed a lawsuit that shines a…
A critical report by a lawyer and former SEC official breaks new ground by blaming a Big Four accountant for a failed subprime mortgage lender’s “improper and imprudent practices,” and…
Although an upcoming merger at the end of the month will put more than 100 lawyers at Charlotte, N.C.-based Helms Mullis & Wicker into one of the nation’s largest law…
In a reinvention of the AmLaw 100, a United Kingdom legal publication has compiled a list of the top 50 U.S. law firms based on revenue. Atop the list is…
Legal tongues are wagging over a report that raised questions about whether lawyers at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz made a mistake in JPMorgan’s original contract offer to buy Bear…
In a repeat of abuses that led Congress to enact a special legislative exemption for defense lawyers a decade ago, over-aggressive federal prosecutors are pursuing a respected Miami attorney for,…
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