Most people may think of debtors’ prisons as a relic of history. But they arguably still exist in this country, where judges in criminal cases routinely employ a strong-arm collection…
Expanding on earlier growth, a 20-year-old minority-owned commercial law firm based in Milwaukee is adding 10 lawyers and opening new offices in Los Angeles and Phoenix.
A more than 500-attorney Indianapolis-based law firm is opening its first office in the Southeast, raiding two partners from the Atlanta office of Bryan Cave Powell Goldstein to establish a…
NOTE:The sanctions described here against Deborah Klar, Teri Pham and the law firm Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstreif & Taylor were vacated, in effect, in…
A decision by the Iowa Supreme Court last week striking down the state’s ban on same-sex marriages will be more difficult to overturn by voters than a similar court decision…
Once a shining star at Rosenman & Colin, where he worked as a white-collar defense litigator, Marc Dreier today is under house arrest in his lavish New York home, accused…
A court-appointed receiver overseeing the wind-up of the Dreier law firm once overseen by New York attorney Marc Dreier says his work essentially is done, now that he and his…
It took two trials, but federal prosecutors have now won a criminal conviction in a case against two disbarred Kentucky lawyers accused of scamming almost $95 million from clients in…
The brother of Bernard Madoff still can’t sell anything. But a judge in Long Island, N.Y., has amended an earlier asset freeze won by a 22-year-old Brooklyn law student so…
The Iowa Supreme Court has struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriages in an opinion that notes other state rulings at the forefront of civil rights.
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