Dechert has agreed to pay $429,000 to settle a class action claiming it required or allowed non-exempt staffers to sign waivers so they could work through meal breaks.
A police dog on a training exercise found real evidence of a crime on New York’s Long Island last month—the skeletal remains of what turned out to be a young…
A New Jersey lawyer has been reprimanded for forging two clients’ signatures on releases for an unauthorized settlement, appending his own signature as a “witness” and then attesting in the…
Updated: In the latest sign of the dismal legal market for new law graduates, the editor-in-chief of the Chicago-Kent Law Review for 2009-2010 is still looking for work. Interviewing, volunteering,…
You might think the Secret Service agents would have been a giveaway, let alone the phalanx of staff and extra security that poured in through a side door at the…
An Oklahoma judge and her husband are facing multiple perjury and fraudulent claims charges after accepting money from the state for the care of twins they initially took in as…
A woman who raised a baby kidnapped from a New York hospital in 1987 has been criminally charged and the FBI says she confessed, reports the Associated…
Updated: After two lower-level wins, a former top aide to President Barack Obama was booted from the ballot for the upcoming Chicago mayor’s race, as a divided Illinois appellate court…
A federal judge has given a green light to a lawsuit against a bank utilized by then-attorney Scott Rothstein in the $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme he ran from his South…
An aide to Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords doesn’t remember Chief Arizona U.S. District Judge John Roll pushing him out of the way during a gunman’s attack in a Tucson supermarket, but…
Texas lawyer Jack Borden was so devoted to work that his law partner, a nephew, had to persuade him to leave the job last Monday to seek treatment for fluid…
A former California prosecutor has been arrested on charges of child pornography and secret filming based on accusations he secretly taped a 15-year-old girl and six other women at a…
A former Texas judge says his 2009 warnings about “Obamacare,” now circulating widely on the Internet and via e-mail, were based in part on provisions of the health care bill…
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