Shervin Lalezary is a 30-year-old Beverly Hills real estate lawyer and something of a hero for his arrest of a man suspected in a Los Angeles arson spree.
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider an Idaho property rights case that has generated landowner sympathy among conservatives, libertarians and developers.
Despite widespread evidence of fraud and other wrongdoing, federal prosecutions related to the reckless mortgage lending that nearly brought down the nation’s banking system in recent years are few and…
A retirement community in Leesburg, Fla., now has a 6½-foot-tall menorah inside its social hall as a result of a lawsuit filed by a resident who is a rabbi and…
Updated: Bank of America Corp. has agreed to pay a $335 million to settle claims that the Countrywide Financial unit it purchased discriminated against minorities by giving them mortgages with…
A pecan theft crime wave is sweeping across Georgia, thanks to a rough economy and a major Texas drought has driven up the wholesale price of the nut to $1.50…
A number of individuals who bought homes in big Las Vegas condominium complexes during the last decade or so were looking for a quiet life in retirement.
A New York judge has dismissed a mortgage foreclosure case, with prejudice, because of a well-known law firm’s delay in submitting to the court verifications that it took reasonable steps…
Updated: A Colorado real estate lawyer who disappeared nearly five years ago after allegedly stealing up to $1 million in client funds has been arrested in California as he was…
Another New York law firm is moving in to fill in at least part of the upstate foreclosure practice gap left by the downfall of Steven J. Baum’s legal shop
The owner of a West Virginia mine that exploded in 2010, killing 29 men, will pay a record $209 million to resolve its criminal and civil liability concerning the disaster…
Accused in September of mishandling millions in client trust money, a now-former counsel of Crowell & Moring traveled to Hong Kong and, at last report, was awaiting extradition back to…
Sheriff’s deputies and movers sent to evict a 103-year-old Atlanta woman and her 83-year-old daughter on Tuesday refused to do the job after television crews arrived.
Bad judgment about Halloween costumes worn last year by some employees of the Steven J. Baum law firm has come back to haunt New York’s largest mortgage foreclosure practice.
A Louisiana hearing committee has recommended a fully deferred 60-day suspension for an attorney who failed to detect that a lawyer he employed in his high-volume real estate practice oversaw…
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