Donald Trump is suing to extend a $640 million construction loan on a condominium and condo hotel project in Chicago that will be the nation’s second-tallest building.
Eliot Spitzer, whose law-and-order image was tarnished earlier this year when his reported use of high-class prostitutes made international headlines, won’t be federally prosecuted.
The Wall Street meltdown poses a lot of intriguing questions for law firms. Will their obsession with New York continue? Will the big firms have to lower their billing rates,…
Those who had trouble casting their ballots today due to pre-election cleanup of the list of registered voters apparently included at least one well-known name: Actor Tim Robbins, perhaps best-known…
When attorney Mark Peroff moved to the Manhattan office of Hiscock & Barclay, a 200-lawyer firm headquartered in upstate New York, he persuaded clients to follow him by offering a…
A renowned Buffalo, N.Y., defense attorney died yesterday, along with his wife, after their car was broadsided by another vehicle that ran a red light at a high rate of…
A New York judge has ruled a Long Island divorce lawyer does not have to pay $52,000 a year in maintenance because his estranged wife is living with another man,…
When Natasha Hsieh sought a summer associate position at DLA Piper, she found that her experience growing up in Taiwan, as well as California, was a big advantage for her…
Updated: Three former bankruptcy partners of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, including the co-leader of the firm’s Distressed and Special Situations Lending Group, have departed for Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.
Corrected: Fortress Global Investigations, a New York City-based investigative firm, will officially launch a national investigation company focused on overturning wrongful conviction cases at a press conference today.
Acting New York Supreme Court Justice Paul G. Feinman dismissed a negligence action against the Lawyers Athletic League by a former Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman teammate who was allegedly…
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that American International Group will withhold more than $600 million in compensation due to its former chief and other executives as critics…
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