An Iowa judge has certified a class action filed on behalf of about 300 current and former residents of two Des Moines apartment buildings who say their landlord failed to…
It’s often hard to tell whether a multitude of unauthorized no-parking signs posted on roads near California’s best public beaches are legitimate or not.
A Florida judge says he plans to schedule a contempt hearing after a lawyer handling civil litigation went with a locksmith to $1 million home in Lakeland that his client,…
A real estate lawyer in Massachusetts has taken a plea concerning his theft of nearly $600,000 in client funds he was supposed to distribute at two closings to pay off…
A New York real estate lawyer has been convicted of bank fraud and money laundering for closing purchases in pricey Westchester County in which mortgages were allegedly obtained by the…
A well-known Georgia real estate lawyer has temporarily closed his Columbus office amidst an audit, and a local bank has asked a Muscogee County court to determine who should get…
The chief judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has sued a prominent Philadelphia law firm and a former lawyer there for malpractice, contending that the state paid millions more than…
A New York Times columnist is expressing outrage over Halloween costumes worn by some employees of a law firm previously in the news because of a probe into its foreclosure…
In the midst of a terrible real estate market, the owners of the 117 units at the Dophin Tower condominium in Sarasota, Fla., have a bigger problem to worry about…
In an apparent new wrinkle among a growing wave of government litigation over a national electronic registry that circumvented the traditional system of recording mortgage assignments in county offices, the…
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