Updated: The mood is somber today at the Orlando law firm Miller, South & Milhausen. One Friday, the firm went on lockdown while police sought a man who shot six…
A default judgment that required PepsiCo to pay $1.26B to two men who claimed the soft-drink giant stole their idea for bottled water was overturned today by a Wisconsin court.
Faced with a shortage of two judges, in the wake of misconduct charges, and a backlog of 1,382 cases that are supposed to be tried by January, a Pennsylvania court…
As supervisors increasingly make objectionable comments to employees via text messages, resulting harassment cases over after-hours comments no longer are based simply on “he said, she said” evidence.
For 9 years, colleagues of legal secretary Joanie Kissell thought she was optimistic, to say the least, as she saved hole-punchings in a large container labeled New York Yankees.
Despite an effort by partner and president Stuart Rosenfeldt to create a new law firm out of the apparent ashes of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, the well-known Fort Lauderdale, Fla., law…
A former associate in the New York office of Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold has filed a disability discrimination suit against the firm and an a partner he alleges was…
Contending that a top Texas appellate judge misled a federal appeals court that dismissed a wrongful death claim by the wife and daughter of an executed inmate, a civil rights…
An undercover journalist researching the “shadowy underworld” of ghostwritten term papers says a senior staff attorney with the Massachusetts Appeals Court offered to write a term paper on physician-assisted suicide…
Southern New England law school dean Robert Ward is preparing for battle over his school’s plan to merge with the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and become the state’s first…
The New Jersey Supreme Court has changed the ethics rules to allow lawyers to tout their designation as among the “Super Lawyers” and “Best Lawyers in America.”
A trader who formerly worked as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell was among the 14 defendants charged today in the Galleon Group hedge fund insider-trading case.
Two Oklahoma lawyers, one of whom is no longer licensed, have been accused of racketeering and conspiracy in an alleged $1.1 million client embezzlement scheme carried out over a five-year…
After what reportedly could be as much as a decade or more of alleged unauthorized practice in Nevada on the part of disbarred attorney Charles Radosevich, authorities have apparently mounted…
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