Despite the dismal economy, there’s been quite a bit of work lately for lawyers who specialize in recovering assets held by convicted swindlers. But it isn’t an easy gig.
A Manhattan judge has tossed another New York judge’s $10 million defamation claim against a lawyer thought to be the source of two critical newspaper columns in the New York…
Lawyer Marc Dreier is scheduled to be sentenced today in Manhattan federal court for bilking investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars in a scheme involving fake promissory notes.
Mayer Brown partner Joseph Collins was convicted Friday of securities fraud and four other charges for his role in hiding financial problems from investors in the trading firm Refco Inc.
Mayer Brown partner Joseph Collins, accused of misleading investors in the public offering for Refco Inc., won’t get a mistrial over an unusual juror feud.
The former mergers and acquisitions lawyer with Cravath, Swaine & Moore accused of paying a woman to have sex with her teenage daughters is weighing yet another lawsuit.
A federal judge has enjoined publication of a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye, saying the new book is an unauthorized infringement of the copyright held by the original…
Robert Bowman managed to pass the New York bar exam after the fourth try, but there is one more obstacle keeping him from getting a license to practice law: about…
In a sad day for a former partner at Latham & Watkins and his family, he has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison after expressing contrition for bilking…
That would be the one in Chicago that’s been serving up frankfurters since 1948 on the city’s northwest side. And this Superdawg—a food TV favorite easily…
A 71-year-old songwriter and movie director known for his Oscar-winning 1977 pop tune You Light Up My Life has been charged with sexually assaulting 11 young women he allegedly lured…
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