Attendance was way up yesterday at a Harvard Law School entertainment law class after Tom Cruise made an unexpected appearance along with a celebrity lawyer who was serving as a…
A former Massachusetts real estate lawyer and title company agent has pleaded guilty to criminal charges concerning what a prosecutor says was a “mortgage stacking” scheme in which he obtained…
Massachusetts’ highest court is keeping a former lawyer behind bars for at least another 30 days so a lawyer who listened to his recorded jailhouse conversations to find missing money…
A high-school dropout with two children who went on to get her general educational development certificate, graduate from college and earn a juris doctor degree so that she could represent…
A lawyer for a former priest convicted of child molestation raised questions about the validity of recovered memories in oral arguments yesterday before Massachusetts’ highest court.
Boston law firm Donovan Hatem has been ordered to pay $3 million to nine former partners who claimed a name partner engaged in abusive behavior and manipulated profit numbers.
Fairfield Greenwich Group has agreed to pay $8 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the Massachusetts Secretary of State over serving as a feeder fund to Bernard Madoff’s massive…
A divided state retirement board voted 3-2 today to reject a former Massachusetts judge’s request for a disability pension because of diagnosed post-traumatic stress that he says is related to…
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