A New York lawyer who first made a major name for himself prosecuting congressmen in the Abscam trials of the 1980s and then represented big-name defendants has died of leukemia.
Chicago lawyer Jeff Nowak used Stephen Colbert’s recent absence from taping his Comedy Central program, The Colbert Report, to explain “a little-used, often forgotten rule under the…
A law professor at Chapman University in California who was known for gay rights advocacy died Friday in a fall from a six-story parking structure in Irvine.
When a 32-year-old associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom was found dead at her California home in June, blogs reported she was putting in long hours and appeared…
Peter Mullen, a New York lawyer who worked with Joseph H. Flom for many years to build Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom into a powerhouse megafirm, died Saturday of…
A New York attorney in a troubled marriage reportedly beat his wife to death with a furniture leg and then fatally shot their two children in bed before committing suicide…
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