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…
Thirty-six delivery workers at a Vietnamese restaurant with two locations in Manhattan were awarded $4.6 million for wage and overtime violations in a suit handled pro bono by Davis Polk…
A federal magistrate in Brooklyn is recommending a default judgment against defendants who sought to destroy evidence by secretly replacing his computer.
If the recommendation is adopted, the sanction would…
Apparently unhappy that the mayor of village in New York’s Lower Hudson Valley was able to get a traffic ticket dismissed, the police officer rang the mayor’s doorbell and issued…
A lawyer from a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y., has been charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident in a hit-and-run that killed a college student over the weekend.
Nassau County, N.Y., public officials have decided to restrict a controversial Web-based “Wall of Shame” after a pretrial defendant complained that the posting of her name, photo and charges, violated…
A federal appeals court has refused to vacate a trial judge’s sanctions against three lawyers found to have filed a meritless lawsuit. The court also criticized their attempt to remove…
New York divorce lawyer Raoul Felder has sued his investment firm, saying it lured him to invest in a risky hedge fund that lost $200,000 of his money.
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