Updated: A New York lawyer who reportedly was simultaneously listed as a full-time employee of five Long Island school districts for which he worked as legal counsel is seeing some…
Arguing her position pro se, a woman has persuaded a Suffolk County, N.Y., judge not to allow a Manhattan law firm to bow of out her ongoing medical malpractice case.
A San Francisco attorney is facing potential disbarment because while serving on a jury in 2004, he reportedly cast the deciding vote to end a deadlock simply so that he…
The former general counsel for KLA-Tencor Corp. argues that a memo she wrote to a name partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati shows the law firm either approved or…
Embattled Houston District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal has agreed to resign to stop an investigation into improper use of office computers. His resignation letter says his judgment was…
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker is seeking to settle a lawsuit that contends the law firm should have been aware that the billboard company it was advising was selling investments…
In a recent discussion of leading plaintiffs firms filing class actions related to the subprime mortgage crisis, what Wall Street Journal Law Blog described as “San Diego-based…
Updated: A lawyer who was reported as simultaneously working as a full-time employee for five different Long Island school districts in order to qualify for a government pension and other…
Following criticism last year over his lavish spending of city money on municipal legal perks, Miami’s city attorney has agreed to resign and plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of…
The State Bar of Georgia is checking out complaints that lawyers personally solicited business from victims of last week’s explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery.
The Florida Supreme Court criticized television’s “Judge Alex” in an opinion released yesterday, saying he should not have testified for a Miami man who survived torture and kidnapping.
In a highly unusual move, six members of a 12-person grand jury that indicted a Texas Supreme Court justice are suing the county prosecutor and the state for permission to…
Duane Morris has won a $1.6 million malpractice suit that accused it of failing to provide security in a settlement agreement negotiated for a former client.
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