A former fish market worker who was paralyzed in the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash really liked his lawyer—and doesn’t mind giving him an extra $2.5 million.
A New York appeals court has ordered state legislators to give judges a pay increase of about 30 percent to reflect the increased cost of living since their last raise…
Just in case associates might be thinking of rolling into work a bit belatedly over the summer, the managing partner of the New York City office of Morrison & Foerster…
The former Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer who represented both Brooke Astor and her son testified yesterday that he was “enraged” to learn he had been fired and the son designated…
The “all business” bankruptcy judge overseeing the reorganization of General Motors had little patience for a lawyer who offered a joke during a hearing yesterday.
After earlier news that some BigLaw firms are shrinking their summer programs by as much as 49 percent, or even, in a few cases, eliminating their summer programs entirely this…
Thanks to a Texas law firm, two new graduates of New York University School of Law getting ready to start public interest jobs don’t have to worry about dealing with…
The son of lawyer Marc Dreier claims in a $1 million lawsuit that he dropped out of college because of verbal abuse, physical assault and defamatory comments by his former…
Today show weatherman Al Roker got caught in the middle of a media storm when he took pictures of potential jurors on his iPhone yesterday and posted them to Twitter…
A beloved actor perhaps best known for hiding his keen detective skills under a bumbling police persona in the Columbo television series is now reportedly more than absent-minded in real…
A New York appeals court has stayed a malpractice suit against Greenberg Traurig and the chairman of its New York office to allow the facts to be developed first in…
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