A woman who sued her employer claiming discrimination can’t shield her lawyer e-mails in the litigation because they were sent from her work e-mail account, a California appeals court has…
A onetime lawyer who was disbarred in 1992 cannot use the initials “JD” after his name because his apparent intent was to convince others that he was a licensed attorney,…
A contract lawyer for Liberty Mutual is accused in a civil suit of threatening to expose an insurance executive’s sexual liaisons if he wasn’t paid millions of dollars and given…
News that intellectual property rainmaker Henry Bunsow is leaving Howrey for Dewey & LeBoeuf could prove to be a significant crack in Howrey’s foundation, reports the Jan 20, 2011 12:02 AM CST
Saying that defendant Matthew Riskin Bean and others need to understand that cyberbullying is a crime, a federal judge in Philadelphia yesterday sentenced the 20-year-old New Jersey man to a…
Kidnapped as a 19-day-old infant from a New York hospital in 1987, after her mother took her in to be treated for 104-degree fever, the now 23-year-old victim has been…
Faced with the embarrassing realization that a trusted staffer has stolen a significant sum of money, a lot of law firms opt to keep quiet, observers say.
In a case from Oregon and another from California, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that criminal defense lawyers provided adequate assistance of counsel and that their onetime clients were…
Attorney Bobby Pearlman was handing what seemed like a somewhat routine probate matter in Charleston, S.C., until his client’s brother was arrested for allegedly trying to put a contract hit…
While Delvonte Tisdale didn’t make a good decision when he reportedly stowed away in the wheel well of a USAirways plane at the Charlotte, N.C., airport, the 16-year-old high school…
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