The Obama administration has reversed course and decided it will oppose releasing photos of claimed prisoner abuses at U.S. prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Anonymous officials told several publications that…
Madoff bankruptcy trustee Irving Picard has filed a suit seeking $5.1 billion from a Florida lawyer who ran trust funds and partnerships that invested with Bernard Madoff as well as…
An apparent New York State Police practice of using GPS tracking devices on suspects’ vehicles for extended periods is a violation of their constitutional privacy rights unless a search warrant…
Brooklyn Law School’s ranking by U.S. News & World Report is in doubt after rival schools pointed out that the school was notably absent in the magazine’s first-ever inclusion of…
The Kaye Scholer bankruptcy partner who made headlines when she kicked her squabbling kids out of the car probably won’t be charged with child endangerment.
A disbarred New York lawyer who lost her gambling addiction lawsuit has been sentenced to three to nine years in prison for stealing from her client escrow account to support…
Despite discrepancies between Allan Patricof’s sign-in book and other time records, the New York City parking judge was properly paid the $110,472 he earned in 2006.
When a 43-year-old legal secretary was raped in her home in Los Angeles a decade ago, a Los Angeles police detective had a gut feeling that a repeat offender was…
The bankruptcy judge overseeing the Chrysler case is a marathon runner with experience handling the high-profile reorganizations of Enron and WorldCom.
The experience will likely well serve the 62-year-old judge,…
FBI agents yesterday raided the office of a New York lawyer who apparently killed his family and himself after people who invested with him began demanding their money back.
A name partner and an associate of a five-attorney personal injury firm in Buffalo, N.Y., died in Ohio yesterday when their small plane crashed shortly after taking off from Cuyahoga…
Prosecutors have accused the son of a famous New York socialite and her lawyer of siphoning $60 million from her estate by taking advantage of her diminished mental capacity to…
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