After nearly two weeks of deliberations, two former partners of Jenkens & Gilchrist were convicted today by a federal jury in Manhattan on multiple counts in a tax-shelter case.
A former client has lost a legal battle to recoup a $6.3 million settlement stolen by his then-legal counsel Marc Dreier after it was wired to his attorney trust account.
Married, a father and a name partner in a Colorado law firm, Carl McGuire seemingly had his life structure set. Then he got the news that he was headed to…
Two years after the FBI raided his home, a now-disbarred Baltimore attorney has been charged with downloading images of children involved in “explicit” activity from a website controlled by an…
The New Jersey Supreme Court in a 3-2 ruling has ordered the state schools to spend additional money on public education in poor school districts, an amount estimated to be…
A homeless nonlawyer in Washington State offered his legal services through a parental alienation group and a website, taking fees from at least two would-be clients, prosecutors say.
A former office manager for a Santa Ana, Calif., law firm was sentenced today to four years in prison for skimming $502,000 from the accounts of Tustin Rinos and Martin…
An 83-year-old New York defense lawyer has been indicted on a felony count of promoting criminal contraband after he allegedly smuggled a cellphone into the Monroe County jail that helped…
Apparently angry about being awakened by a noisy Arizona State University student, bankruptcy attorney and former prosecutor Daniel Gukeisen got into an argument with Garrett Hohn that escalated into a…
A former cheerleader for the Indianapolis Colts has sued the team alleging that it discriminated against her by firing her after she posed in racy photographs when it had not…
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