An appeals court in New Jersey has affirmed an $84,850 verdict against a lawyer who claimed his status as a contract partner meant he didn’t have a fiduciary duty to…
Opening a new chapter in the ongoing debacle over the federal government’s stunningly unsuccessful prosecution of then-Sen. Ted Stevens for corruption, the legislature of his home state of Alaska today…
“Juror Johnathan” may have been a bit of a twit, as the N.Y. Daily News said in a headline, for posting tweets on Twitter.com while awarding a $12.6 million verdict…
Despite his earlier tearful testimony, a former legal eagle in Cincinnati was sentenced today to two years in prison in a federal drug conspiracy case, following a hearing that lasted…
There won’t be many parties at Schiff Hardin this year. But, due to its diversified practice and lack of long-term debt, the 400-attorney Chicago-based national law firm…
Nikolas Colton Evans always wanted three sons. So, when he died after being punched and falling in a March 27 street assault in Austin, Texas, his mother, Marissa Evans, decided…
Whether you’ve registered for a free Twitter account, are actively engaged in the microblogging community or simply at a browsing stage, Oklahoma legal technology guru Jim Calloway advises lawyers of…
The economy is so dismal that one of the biggest and best-known law firms in Florida, 1,150-attorney Holland & Knight, cut 70 attorneys and 243 staff members in two rounds…
Adding a new episode to a saga of unsolved crimes in Boston’s Public Garden, another one of the eight bronze ducklings replicating a famous contingent raised by Mrs. Mallard in…
Decades ago, the groundbreaking Tarasoff decision made the tort law casebooks after the California Supreme Court found that a treating psychotherapist had a duty to warn a third party of…
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