A former partner of Winston & Strawn was both arrested today and sued today by the Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations that he had a role in a former…
A neo-Nazi defendant with facial tattoos that many might find disturbing covered them up during his Florida murder trial, with the help of a cosmetologist paid over $100 a day…
Updated: A malpractice suit alleges a high-profile lawyer at Ungaretti & Harris authorized the destruction of documents despite a judge’s order requiring their preservation.
In the latest blow to a once-powerful political figure, former Detroit mayor and former lawyer Kwame Kilpatrick, who is already serving time for probation violation in an unrelated obstruction case,…
In an ongoing legal ethics trial of six attorneys from a prominent Maine law firm, a former secretary there has now given her account of what was said after she…
As civil and criminal investigations continue to determine responsibility for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that began April 20, the U.S. Department of Justice has sued…
A lawsuit by a prominent former client had a silver lining for the husband-and-wife attorneys he accused of abusing his trust to steal some $7 million from him.
A 62-year-old Sioux Falls lawyer being tried on child pornography charges is telling a federal district court jury in South Dakota that he viewed the illicit images in order to…
A lawsuit filed by a bankruptcy administrator blames the demise of Coudert Brothers on a law firm that poached several of its lawyers, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.
By refusing to consider a request by a Muslim school teacher for nearly three weeks of unpaid leave that would allow her to take a pilgrimage to Mecca, a suburban…
Irked by what he says was the theft of his laptop computer somewhere between a shipping store and the destination to which it was being sent for repairs, a California…
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