A Pakistani neuroscientist being held without bail in Brooklyn, N.Y., had documents suggesting possible plans for a U.S. attack when she was arrested in Afghanistan, according to an indictment announced…
Now 41, Robert Chambers Jr. became notorious decades ago. His murder trial and manslaughter plea, for what he claimed was the accidental strangulation of a young woman in 1986 during…
Updated: The New York lawyer whose multiple employment sparked a statewide pension probe has been ordered to repay nearly $84,000 in benefits. Meanwhile, another New York lawyer has been told…
A New York judge has approved a deal that allows former securities class action lawyer Melvyn Weiss to keep future fees from some cases he worked on at his former…
The lawyers seeking to exonerate Joseph P. Collins, a Mayer Brown partner indicted for his role in an alleged financial fraud at failed commodities brokerage Refco, want results of a…
A jury has awarded about $720,000 in damages to an associate and paralegal who claimed they were forced out of their New York law firm because of their pregnancies.
A federal judge has refused to reconsider his decision to sanction a Manhattan lawyer and ordered him to pay more than $12,000 in attorney fees for trying to “hijack” the…
As the economic downturn hit Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft this year, its managing partner has also had to deal with problems at home—or more specifically, with his home.
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