Lawyers are used to being adversarial, but two lawyers in the Portland, Ore., area apparently elevated their conflict to an actual fistfight in front of a crowd of courthouse spectators…
A judicial ethics commission has recommended a $25,000 fine and 30-day suspension for a judge who sent two “bizarre” and “threatening” letters to the publisher of the Boston Herald.
Lawyers representing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. could be on the hot seat under a federal judge’s order allowing them to be questioned about deposition testimony in a case that…
Disgraced plaintiffs lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to reject a petition to have him disbarred, arguing that the effort is premature.
Tort lawyers don’t come any more successful than Mississippi’s Dickie Scruggs. Now that he’s been accused of bribery, there are questions about how he achieved so much.
The trustee and liquidators for Sphinx Funds have sued Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, claiming the law firm contributed to the funds’ $263 million loss when commodities firm Refco Inc. collapsed.
The federal judge overseeing the unprecedented case against the former Milberg Weiss has declined to dismiss a money-laundering conspiracy charge against the firm even though all the principal targets in…
A former Iowa judge, after a second conviction for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, is being barred from practicing law for three months partly because he criticized the judge presiding…
A federal judge has ordered Houston’s former district attorney Charles Rosenthal to pay almost $19,000 for his “venomous” deletion of thousands of e-mails.
Mississippi’s Commission on Judicial Performance has recommended an interim suspension for a trial judge under investigation in connection with plaintiffs lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs.
Nearly two dozen school districts on Long Island improperly reported private attorneys as employees, helping them earn public pensions totaling more than $342,082 a year, Newsday reported today.
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