How is it that a student can be bullied at school, for years, without officials taking effective action to end the situation? A lengthy article in today’s New York Times…
In a case accepted for review today, the U.S. Supreme Court has asked lawyers to address whether the justices should overrule a 2001 decision involving government officials’ qualified immunity from…
Zach Scruggs, the son and law partner of famed Mississippi plaintiffs attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in a judicial bribery case that also brought…
In what may be the first such investigation in the nation, prosecutors in New Jersey reportedly are investigating a controversial no-holds-barred college campus gossip website for possible consumer law violations.
A lawyer who won a $1.7 million settlement for two brothers in a high-profile Texas civil rights case that brought down the local DA is now seeking $4.4 million in…
A Pennsylvania judge has ordered a small practitioner to pay a $5.2 million judgment, including $1 million in punitive damages, for charging unlawful attorney fees while collecting delinquent municipal and…
After a stunning loss in the value of Bear Stearns stock that cost employees and investors big bucks over the weekend and led to widespread turmoil in stock markets today,…
Two lawyers have filed defamation lawsuits against a blogger who called himself Patent Troll Tracker and the company that employed him, Cisco Systems Inc.
A London lawyer who was harassed and bullied by her colleagues at an asset management firm has won a record judgment of a little over $26 million to cover her…
An 11-year court battle over an excessive force case that could have been settled for $50,000 probably ended yesterday for the city of Palo Alto, Calif., when the state supreme…
West Virginia’s top court heard a dispute between two coal companies, one defunct and the other the nation’s fourth-largest, for a second time yesterday. This time, though, two justices have…
A French client says he wired $3.8 million to a Miami Beach, Fla., real estate attorney’s trust account, with instructions to form six corporations and buy six condos by 2006.
Questions are being raised about a law firm’s representation of both the Detroit mayor and a top aide in an ongoing scandal over an $8.4 million city settlement. But the…
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