The judge who sentenced Lindsay Lohan to 90 days in jail for violating probation attended Southwestern Law School, but she didn’t choose it for love of…
A controversial use of DNA evidence that is expressly permitted by statute in only two states has identified a suspect in at least 10 so-called “Grim Sleeper’ killings over the…
A federal judge in Boston today struck down the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act, saying that the 1996 statute’s prohibition against same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
In the latest chapter of an ongoing saga about trusted employees who allegedly have stolen from law firms throughout the country, a former bookkeeper and office manager for a Chicago…
A Florida judge began reading 100 pages of instructions at 9 a.m. today to the jury trying a now-disbarred real estate attorney in a case involving the alleged misappropriation of…
Stringent new Florida Bar rules on attorney online advertising have ignited a firestorm, attracting criticism from a sweeping array of groups including not only law firms that do business in…
Actress Lindsay Lohan is denying that an obscene message on her fingernails was intended for the judge who sentenced her on Tuesday to 90 days in jail.
A former lawyer in the enforcement division of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission won’t be going to prison for his role in lawyer Marc Dreier’s fraud scheme.
The Securities and Exchange Commission claims in a lawsuit that a Utah money manager promised to place investor money in commercial real estate but instead put the funds into a…
Gregory Evans is leaving a partnership at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy to start a new high-stakes litigation law firm that disdains the BigLaw “profit model.”
A law firm is offering a reward of as much as $1,500 and urging the public to “Burn an Arsonist” in banners displayed outside its two-story building in the aftermath…
A New York attorney has sued a well-known plaintiffs’ class action law firm at which he formerly was employed as a temporary worker, contending that he should have been paid…
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