Two corporate partners are leaving the New York office of Clifford Chance for Dechert, adding to an exodus of 18 partners who have departed the London-based megafirm’s Big Apple office…
Authorities are offering a $10,000 reward for help finding a man charged with jury tampering for putting a newspaper article on jurors’ windshields describing evidence banned from his brother-in-law’s arson…
After nearly a week of deliberation, a federal jury in Brooklyn, N.Y., today convicted two lawyers in a witness-tampering case that reportedly could put them in prison for life.
A judge in West Virginia has been disqualified from continuing to hear a case alleging groundwater pollution because he once represented one of the defendants—while still a practicing lawyer and…
A Chicago woman is blaming splashing by dolphins for the slippery floor that caused her fall and injuries at Brookfield Zoo in suburban Chicago last August.
A lawsuit filed against the Pittsburgh Public Schools claims a straight-A student developed anorexia because bullies taunted the girl about her weight and school officials did nothing to stop it.
A 20-year-old Massachusetts man arrested on drug charges has told police that his mother and stepfather, a prominent lawyer and a law professor, were aware he was selling pot from…
Mental health records released today for the gunman who massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in April 2007 before killing himself show that he was never treated by the school’s…
After an attorney for a longtime worker at the University of New Mexico spoke to a local newspaper about her client’s discrimination lawsuit against a well-known football coach and the…
A five-lawyer team of environmental lawyers including the Washington, D.C., practice co-chair has been lured from Patton Boggs to Crowell & Moring. They will be working with two former Patton…
A mall dynasty heir claims in a lawsuit that Chicago law firm Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg is to blame for more than $300 million in her trusts’ investment losses.
A new lawsuit has been filed against Wells Fargo & Co. over its home equity line practices, adding to a growing list of litigation against the mortgage lender for which…
Sonnenschein partner Paul Glad won’t face criminal charges for a March accident in which his car ran into a 7-year-old girl and her mother as they were selling Girl Scout…
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