After covering his $2,700 monthly rent on a Texas mansion and another $900 bill for his Cadillac lease, says Detroit’s ex-mayor, he can’t afford to pay another big bill. To…
A much-watched whistle-blower lawsuit by three former faculty members at Ave Maria School of Law is now concluded without ever having the central legal issue publicly addressed.
Corrected: A Shakespeare-quoting federal judge has ordered a feuding lawyer to take a CLE civility class and to eat a meal with the opponent he labeled an —hole during a…
Microsoft filed suit in Washington state court yesterday, in an effort to unmask the individuals behind five companies that allegedly have been distributing “malvertising” to users of its personal computers…
A high-school dropout with two children who went on to get her general educational development certificate, graduate from college and earn a juris doctor degree so that she could represent…
A 58-year-old South Carolina criminal defense attorney has been charged with solicitation of a felony for allegedly trying to hire a hit man to kill another attorney with whom he…
A Florida billionaire’s secret non-prosecution deal with the feds in an investigation of conduct that eventually resulted in his plea to state-court prostitution-related felonies was unsealed today. And it revealed…
The dissolved law firm Thelen has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, saying its lender Citigroup is no longer willing to advance funds to wind down its operations or to fund…
The National Organization for Women is asking supporters to call or write the judge presiding over the bench trial of a state senator accused of domestic violence.
McAfee’s former general counsel alleges the company tried to use him as a scapegoat in a backdating probe with the help of two outside law firms, according to new details…
The former chief legal officer at collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers jumped to a new law firm and taught a class this summer at Columbia Business School.
A former client has won a $4.5 million malpractice judgment against Florida law firm Becker & Poliakoff for waiting too long to inform her that her employment bias case had…
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