106 ABA Journal Transportation & Energy Issues articles.
Some BigLaw firms will earn big bucks in retail bankruptcies
Several large law firms will likely earn millions of dollars representing retailers such as Neiman Marcus, J. Crew and J.C.…
Jul 7, 2020 4:27 PM CDT
Traditionally relegated to the statutory realm of environmental and administrative law, a cadre of attorneys and legal scholars has given the climate change issue a creative facelift that may change the legal landscape—and, they say, could determine the fate of humanity.
Nov 1, 2019 12:00 AM CDT
Audit concludes financial wrongdoing cost law school $1.6M
The University of Texas School of Law has tightened its financial controls after an internal audit concluded that a former employee’s improprieties…
Sep 18, 2019 4:32 PM CDT
• A daughter of former FBI Director James Comey is one of the lead prosecutors in the federal sex trafficking case against billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Maurene Comey is an assistant…
Jul 11, 2019 4:30 PM CDT
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is no longer welcome on the Pine Ridge Reservation because of her support for anti-rioting laws passed in response to protests of the Keystone XL…
May 3, 2019 3:20 PM CDT
A lawyer who fled after pleading guilty in a $550 million disability fraud scheme has been sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison, the maximum.
The lawyer, Eric…
Jul 18, 2017 12:18 PM CDT
Natalie Barefoot might be one of the few lawyers who enthusiastically describes her work as fun. As executive director of Cet Law, Barefoot has channeled her passion for cetaceans—which include…
Mar 1, 2017 4:20 AM CST
Arrested in Florida in January 2015 after several years on the lam, deep-sea treasure hunter Tommy Thompson pleaded guilty a few months later to contempt of court for failing to…
Mar 14, 2016 3:50 PM CDT
Although the parent company of a sunken ocean liner is based in Miami and five plaintiffs are U.S. residents, a Florida appeals court last week nixed a U.S. lawsuit over…
Feb 2, 2016 1:50 PM CST
A Massachusetts lawyer who specializes in defense of operating-under-the-influence cases was indicted Wednesday, along with a former law student intern, in a Boston Harbor boating accident in which alcohol allegedly…
Jul 2, 2015 10:50 AM CDT
An unidentified man got a $5,000 ticket from the U.S. Coast Guard after jumping off a charter fishing vessel into California waters last week on a dare.
Although the boat’s…
Jul 1, 2015 3:05 PM CDT
Jul 1, 2015 6:10 AM CDT
A Louisiana-based international maritime boutique has acquired two Miami law firms and has opened another office in Tampa, Florida.
Fowler Rodriguez announced Thursday that Hayden Milliken & Boeringer, which…
Feb 26, 2015 3:10 PM CST
The captain of a cruise liner that capsized in 2012, resulting in the drowning deaths of 32 people, was sentenced Wednesday in an Italian manslaughter trial to 16 years in…
Feb 11, 2015 3:45 PM CST
The captain of the Costa Concordia caused a 2012 shipwreck of the massive ocean liner by steering it too close to the small Italian island of Giglio, in the nautical…
Feb 10, 2015 12:40 PM CST
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