A special master has recommended a $25,000 sanction against a San Francisco plaintiffs lawyer for mishandling a fee request in litigation against FedEx.
Special Master Edward Swanson said lawyer Waukeen…
Wiley Rein has won dismissal of a $30 million malpractice suit that claimed the law firm botched pleadings to remove a wrongful-death suit from state to federal court.
For more than 20 years, Texas Justice of the Peace Gary Geick got in the holiday spirit by refusing to accept eviction filings from landlords during the Christmas holidays.
A Wisconsin Supreme Court justice has received a reprimand from her colleagues for presiding over cases on a trial court involving a bank where her husband served as a paid…
A beer brewer in a small California town named after a founding citizen and state senator, Abner Weed, has incurred the wrath of federal regulators by his tongue-in-cheek use of…
California lawmakers took a step in the right direction when they prohibited drivers from talking on handheld cell phones under a new law that takes effect July 1.
The governor of Ohio is replacing the state’s former attorney general, Marc Dann, with Nancy Hardin Rogers, the dean of Ohio State University’s law school.
A staff lawyer who had criticized her boss, Minnesota attorney general Lori Swanson, over claimed ethics issues related to the filing of two lawsuits against mortgage foreclosure rescue companies has…
George Mason University law professor Ronald Rotunda is joining Chapman law school along with his wife, Kyndra, an expert on military personnel and disability law.
The general counsel of a California-based genetic products manufacturer is leaving, along with three in-house Affymetrix patent lawyers, to join Dewey & LeBoeuf.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against a junior high school in Harper Lee’s hometown of Monroeville, Ala.
Government filings in the Northern District of California indicate that four child pornography suspects, including a lawyer, committed suicide during a nine-month period, the Recorder reports.
The managing partner at Mayer Brown’s Washington, D.C., office is leaving to become vice president in charge of global government affairs for JPMorgan Chase.
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