A lawsuit filed by a top genetics research laboratory claims one of its patent applications was denied because a partner at Ropes & Gray lifted language from a patent obtained…
A federal judge in Manhattan has rejected a settlement that would have paid rescue and cleanup workers at the destroyed World Trade Center up to $657.5 million using money from…
An associate who claimed in a lawsuit that he suffered a breakdown partly because of “abusive conduct” by a partner at Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold included “scandalous” and irrelevant…
Corrected: A Harvard Law School graduate accused of setting fire to a Sept. 11 chapel was so drunk he barely remembers being at the site on Halloween morning, his defense…
Although the economy seems to be improving, that may not be much comfort to law students who earned their degrees in 2009 in the midst of a global financial crisis…
A prosecutor trying a credit card theft case in New York City wound up doing double duty after a juror accused another member of the panel of stealing his own…
A former partner of McGuireWoods pleaded guilty today in federal court in New York to one count of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud concerning…
Rescue and cleanup workers at the destroyed World Trade Center site have reached a settlement that creates a compensation system similar to the one established for the families of the…
Critics are taking aim at the $155 million price tag negotiated by the City University of New York for a bigger law school home in Long Island City, Queens.
In the latest version of an all-too-familiar story, a former office manager for two New York law firms has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $500,000 from her ex-employers.
Bloggers who filed suit two years ago against the City of New York to obtain the same press privileges afforded to traditional journalists from brick-and-mortar enterprises are closer to a…
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