Apparently frightened by her mother’s driving, an unidentified 12-year-old girl in New York reportedly called 911 repeatedly from the car on a cell phone to report her parent as an…
New York attorney general candidates vying for Andrew Cuomo’s job raised $7.65 million in the six-month period ending July 11, and much of the money came from lawyers.
In an apparent effort to extend the frontiers of defamation law where cyberbullying is concerned, a New York law firm sued four former classmates of an Oceanside High School student…
A New York man who has made a business out of playing a guitar in Times Square while seemingly wearing very little except a cowboy hat and his shoes has…
A fashion model who says she was duped into providing evidence to Boies Schiller & Flexner by its promise to represent her individually in a case against modeling agencies can…
A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed a proposed shareholder class action against American Express, calling the allegations “a classic example of fraud by hindsight.”
Two subsidiaries of the Fortress Investment Group LLC hedge fund say they lost $50 million by relying on “false legal opinion letters” that helped now ex-attorney and convicted swindler Marc…
Updated: An individual’s claim to own 84 percent of the popular Facebook Inc. social networking site, based on a years-old two-page “work for hire” website development contract calling for an…
Goldman Sachs agreed to pay a record-breaking $550 million fine as part of a settlement announced last week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of charges that the bank…
Accused of misleading investors when it foresaw the mortgage meltdown and offered toxic mortgage-related securities that hedged against it, Goldman Sachs has agreed, without admitting liability, to a record payment…
When Judith Sheindlin agreed in 1993 to allow a reporter for the Los Angeles Times to sit quietly in the back of the New York courtroom in which she worked…
How competitive is the legal economy right now? Competitive enough that one of the most renowned New York-based corporate law firms has decided it needs to boost its marketing department,…
A federal appeals court is allowing a solo practitioner to avoid arbitration in a lawsuit that claims his student loan company engaged in deceptive practices.
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