Wachovia Federal Savings Bank filed suit yesterday against a 57-year-old New York attorney, contending that he pocketed $1.8 million as part of an alleged mortgage fraud scheme concerning his deceased…
A North Carolina man arrested on Albany, N.Y., assault charges after the victim identified him from a photo on the MySpace social networking site has suddenly been cleared as his…
Updated: A second-year student at Florida Coastal law school in Jacksonville has been identified as among 50 people killed in a plane crash in Buffalo, N.Y.
A jury reached a verdict yesterday in the trial of two tenants accused of illegally creating extra rooms that doomed two New York firefighters in the so-called Black Sunday blaze…
A former member of the Suffolk County Legislature says the county’s district attorney seized virtually every file in his Long Island law office this week.
A former New York madam says her client list included Wall Street lawyers and other high-profile people, but the Manhattan District Attorney’s office wasn’t interested in prosecuting her customers.
A partner at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison is seeking to reopen his $6.6 million divorce settlement with his wife of more than 30 years, saying that he paid…
Two soldiers have been charged in the armed robbery and wounding of a New York judge who reportedly suffered puncture wounds to his hand and face as he resisted an…
A New York man who married his longtime same-sex partner in Canada last year is entitled to inherit his estate as his spouse, a New York probate judge has held…
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