Following a court hearing yesterday, a Milberg partner defended the law firm’s agreement to pay former firm leader Melvyn Weiss possibly tens of millions of dollars in unpaid fees.
A former lawyer plans to contribute the earnings from an ABA book about his downfall to help repay clients whose trust accounts he raided to support a gambling addiction.
Melvyn Weiss, a former lead partner at Milberg, stands to collect possibly tens of millions of dollars in unpaid fees from the law firm under an October 2007 agreement.
A 40-year-old Wisconsin woman who admittedly had sex with a 16-year-old high school classmate of her daughter, while she was serving as his tutor, has been sentenced to a one-year…
A former municipal judge in Schererville, Ind., who funneled defendants’ fees to a driving school she secretly owned and demanded kickbacks from a counseling firm that worked with her court,…
Eight foster children, aged 5 to 12, who were sexually abused for an additional 18 months because of delayed follow-up by authorities are to get an $11 million settlement from…
In a case that lawyers hope will have a happier ending than that of another Florida 12-year-old convicted of murdering a much smaller child, a boy accused of beating a…
Attorney General Michael Mukasey told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that the Justice Department will no longer require corporations to waive attorney-client privilege to show their cooperation with the government.
Sentenced to a 30-year prison term in a 1981 plea bargain for murdering two hikers on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia after sharing a meal with them in May of…
A split Georgia Supreme Court has overturned a controversial system of secretive post-conviction review panels that since its inception has reduced sentences for hundreds of prisoners in the state.
Judges and anti-drunken-driving activists are applauding a year-old experimental program in New York state to outfit DWI offenders with ankle bracelets that detect alcohol use through the skin.
The son of legendary lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for failing to report a judge bribery plot that involved his father.
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