After several years of negotiation, Verizon Communications Inc. has agreed to pay a record $20 million to resolve a complaint that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by applying…
A few law bloggers managed to score invites and field test Google+, the company’s new Facebook-style social network—and most liked what they saw. “Google+ appears to…
A pleasing personality and a sympathetic judge helped former GlaxoSmithKline in-house counsel Lauren Stevens win acquittal on all six counts during a federal obstruction trial last month.
Two years after the FBI raided his home, a now-disbarred Baltimore attorney has been charged with downloading images of children involved in “explicit” activity from a website controlled by an…
Saying that the government couldn’t prove its case, a federal judge in Greenbelt, Md., has dismissed midway through trial an obstruction prosecution against a former in-house lawyer for GlaxoSmithKline.
A Maryland lawyer who was accused of helping drug traffickers launder their illegal profits and using tens of thousands of dollars in proceeds for real estate investments has taken a…
Arguing that personnel at a Nordstrom in Bethesda, Md., didn’t do enough to protect shoppers from a deranged woman armed with knives in the eight minutes she was in the…
A chemist for the Food and Drug Administration and his son are accused of reaping $2.27 million in illegal profits from an insider-trading scheme that allegedly used information from a…
At an action-packed pretrial hearing yesterday, a federal judge indicated that he may be considering dismissing the indictment (PDF) in an obstruction case against a former in-house counsel…
A former adjunct law professor at George Washington University is facing six felony charges in Florida based on allegations he attempted to seduce two “girls” online.
A paralegal who formerly worked at the Maryland offices of Shapiro & Burson has alleged that more than 1,000 “attorney” signatures on deeds in foreclosure cases were actually scribed by…
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