Asbestos maker W.R. Grace is pursuing an unusual strategy in an effort to emerge from bankruptcy. The company wants the judge overseeing its reorganization to declare invalid many of the…
A well-known furrier in Portland, Ore., has been ordered by a federal judge to pay nearly $100,000 in legal fees to protesters who demonstrated aggressively outside its downtown store for…
Once a record rogue trader fraud of $7 billion is announced by a major bank, a high-profile new representation is clearly on the horizon for some lucky law firm.
A Miami plaintiffs lawyer has withdrawn from 77 injury cases against a cruise line following allegations that two investigators for his law firm paid for inside information.
Blackwater Security has filed a $30 million malpractice suit against Wiley Rein that claims the law firm botched pleadings to remove a wrongful death suit from state to federal court.
More than 100 federal agents raided four Southern California museums and a Los Angeles art gallery this morning after a five-year investigation of an alleged foreign art-smuggling scheme.
Contending that one of the nation’s mortgage finance giants is responsible for a massive national housing fraud, the Ohio attorney general has filed a federal securities class action suit against…
News of an apparent $400 million settlement that concludes a potential criminal case against the project manager of a controversial Boston tunnel project has sparked anger among Massachusetts residents.
It wasn’t just Enron Corp. that was responsible for the massive fraud that wiped out the once-mighty energy trader, creditors contend. Nearly a dozen banks also participated, they argue. And,…
A Chicago lawyer who is being criticized, along with his law firm, in an anonymous Internet blog supposedly authored by a fellow attorney has offered a $10,000 reward to anyone…
The former head of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman’s intellectual property practice group reportedly didn’t jump ship to accept a job at a 52-lawyer New York City intellectual property boutique.
Attorneys overseeing a proposed $4.85 billion settlement with Merck & Co. over its withdrawn Vioxx drug have reportedly amended a controversial provision that could have required some plaintiffs’ lawyers to…
A growing tsunami of investigations, class actions and bankruptcies resulting from the U.S. mortgage meltdown has created a business boom in some BigLaw practice areas.
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