Two lawyers who themselves were victims of a former partner’s $17 million fraud have been suspended for failing to do enough to catch Anthony Bellettieri in wrongdoing as he stole…
It’s official: NBC announced today that it is canceling the long-running Law & Order legal drama, following unconfirmed reports yesterday that it intended to do so.
A Manhattan judge is requiring two securities class action lawyers and their law firms to pay defense costs for filing a complaint based partly on a mistaken reading of a…
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is reportedly investigating eight banks to determine whether they gave misleading information to ratings agencies, resulting in ratings for mortgage products that they knew…
A recording industry trade group has scored a significant victory in the battle against illegal downloading of copyrighted material, winning a summary judgment in federal court in New York yesterday…
Developers of a New York condo project claim in a federal lawsuit that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo violated their due process rights when he ordered them to return…
Remember the furor over the famous $2.9 million jury verdict in 1994 concerning McDonald’s serving too-hot coffee? It seems that Starbucks may have brewed up a sequel.
Saying that the filmmaker had not met his burden of establishing that some 600 hours of raw footage from the documentary Crude is confidential and hence arguably protected by an…
The state attorney general has sued a New York attorney for fraud and violation of the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, contending that John Nicolia sold his name for…
A New York lawyer has lost his bid to introduce brain scan evidence in an employee retaliation trial to support a claim that a plaintiff’s co-worker was telling the truth…
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