A technology company once represented by Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner claims in a lawsuit that the firm helped transfer its intellectual property to another client.
New advertising standards for Louisiana lawyers are slated to go into effect on December 1, but some practitioners feel they could still using a bit of tweaking.
Prominent Los Angeles trial lawyer Pierce O’Donnell is about to be indicted on charges he violated federal campaign finance laws, the Los Angeles Times reports.
A federal judge in Manhattan says a patent holder’s infringement suit was “based on “nothing more than a tissue of lies” and the lawyers who helped him sue should be…
Considerably expanding what some understood to be the scope of permissible malpractice claim against a law firm after the underlying case at issue has settled, a New Jersey appeals court…
When a California appeals court judge sought a $1 million mortgage and a $900,000 credit line to refinance his 8,200-square-foot home in January 2004, a loan officer for Countrywide Financial…
Police have charged a New York tax lawyer who owned the Hot Lap Dance Club with laundering prostitution profits from the club through a voter reform group he founded.
A Justice Department investigation of U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent now includes allegations he failed to report benefits he received from the sale of his Galveston home in a deal…
Two former state-court judges–one of them, until recently, a chief judge–as well as an attorney and a court administrator have been indicted in Georgia, in a federal case over state…
The top deputy to the chief of a government watchdog agency has resigned and accused his boss of putting “political agendas and personal vendettas” ahead of his mission.
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