The layoff tally has now reached 900 at a mortgage foreclosure processing company hard-hit by an onslaught of client departures after questions were raised about the validity of its paperwork.
Kicking off a keenly anticipated BigLaw bonus season in which associates–and partners–at competing firms wait and watch to see how others are doing, Cravath Swaine & Moore has announced end-of-year…
When Anthony Galluccio tested positive for alcohol, three days after being sentenced to six months of home confinement for leaving the scene of an accident in 2009, the former Massachusetts…
Reportedly angered over a protective order taken out by his wife that limited access to his home law office, a suburban Chicago bankruptcy lawyer allegedly began beating her Friday morning…
Prosecutors say a 98-year-old semiretired lawyer was scammed by a purported friend who loaned him office space and then accessed financial records stored there.
A Florida lawyer who’s gotten national publicity as an expert in foreclosure defense has one thing in common with his clients–he’s fighting to keep his home, too.
They aren’t necessarily happy about it. However, over 10,000 plaintiffs who have sought for seven years to hold the city of New York and its contractors responsible for alleged health…
A now-disbarred real estate lawyer and literature scholar has been sentenced to six months in jail for impersonating other academics in what the New York Post…
An Indiana law firm has filed an unusual whistle-blower suit against 78 county prosecutors, contending that they have kept forfeited funds for their own county’s use rather than turning the…
Ohio prison officials say they had no objection to a death-row inmate’s 17-minute prayer before his execution, but they did see the potential for future problems.
A Washington, D.C., law firm that lost $1.6 million in pension money invested with convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff has sued its insurance broker in an effort to recover the…
Eager to put what his lawyer calls a “tough situation” behind him, a federal judge accused of carrying loaded firearms in his car around the time he allegedly purchased drugs…
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