A federal judge in New Hampshire has given the green light to a lawsuit accusing New Jersey’s Drew University of stealing a competing college’s graduate-level poetry program and many of…
Corrected: A Tennessee judge has ruled that a husband and wife who operate a real estate business and a halfway house for recovering drug abusers may unmask an anonymous blogger…
While at least arguably participating in the protests of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh in September, Elliott Madison was arrested and spent some time in a local jail.
Once upon a time, New York estate practitioners only had to worry about potential civil litigation if there was a problem with a will they drafted. But after the high-profile…
Adding another jurisdiction to those in which defense lawyers have previously accused officials of improperly recording inmate phone calls to their legal counsel, Federal Public Defender Lisa Freeland says in…
A nearly 100-year-old Ohio based law firm has let 16 attorneys and staff members go and appointed a new executive committee and managing partner, as part of a restructuring effort…
A California man accused of setting a massive 2003 forest fire by throwing a lighted road flare from his vehicle in the San Bernardino Mountains has also been charged with…
An Iowa attorney’s law license has been suspended for at least six months after he was convicted for the third time of driving while intoxicated, even though there was no…
An attorney discipline count has been filed against an Illinois immigration lawyer for allegedly lying about an ad for a legal secretary that he posted in the “Adult Gigs” section…
Three partners and an associate are leaving Otten Johnson Robinson Neff & Ragonetti to form their own four-lawyer litigation boutique. It will focus on commercial litigation, eminent domain and construction…
A major Pacific Northwest-based law firm has agreed to settle for $30 million securities fraud and legal malpractice claims brought by investors in a failed company that oversaw dozens of…
When a Washington state jury came back into the courtroom with a not guilty verdict in a vehicular assault case on Monday morning, defendant Patricia Sylvester cried tears of joy.
Children aren’t allowed to live in houses in the Lakes Homeowners Association in Pinellas County, Fla., which is designated a 55-and-older community in accord with federal fair housing law.
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