Both a lender and a developer involved in a failed New York City real estate project are pointing fingers at their respective lawyers, blaming a $70 million loan default on…
The city of Holland, Mich., and a former deputy city attorney have settled on undisclosed terms a federal lawsuit filed by a defendant in a drunken-driving case who said she…
Following earlier word that the battling owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers had achieved a settlement of their contentious divorce comes news that Major League Baseball’s commissioner has, in effect,…
As an investigation apparently has stalled concerning what some claim to have been Russian government wrongdoing in a massive tax rebate fraud case related to the Jun 20, 2011 11:25 PM CDT
Weighing in on an ongoing New York Times debate about whether men and women react differently to the conflict between work demands and children, a Manhattan lawyer whose husband is…
Corrected: A New Mexico judge who was open to the possibility of romantic relationship with an assistant public defender to whom he gave a gag sex-book gift during a take-out…
An airline isn’t required to pay a former White House chief of staff, John Sununu, and his business partner a $520,000 “success fee,” a federal judge has ruled.
A visibly irked judge in a high-profile Orlando, Fla., murder trial warned lawyers for both sides that he will consider possible legal ethics sanctions once the case concludes if their…
Disciplined for repeated rudeness to lawyers, court staff and others, a South Dakota judge says he can’t afford the nearly $175,000 that a six-month suspension and subsequent probation could cost…
A United Kingdom law firm ordinarily charges about 600 pounds for a divorce. But Follett Stock Solicitors has hit the headlines by offering them for free this month.
Former ABA President Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte is citing a classic comedy sketch in a lawsuit challenging Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s idea of “supreme executive power.”
A federal judge’s ruling that a copyright troll had no standing to sue for copyright violations has bloggers who already settled lawsuits mulling their next step.
Justice Elena Kagan tried ad-libbing as she announced her opinion yesterday holding that a federal court had no authority to bar a class action in state…
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