A former deputy head of the legal department defrauded the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi out of some $12 million (7.4 million in British pounds, at the current exchange rate) by conning…
Lawyers defending five former Blackwater Worldwide contractors in an Iraq manslaughter case are calling for the U.S. government to provide the same kind of security for their work that the…
Citing two unidentified sources, the Washington Post reports that the head of the public integrity unit of the U.S. Department of Justice plans to relinquish his role…
Two excess insurers for Pepper Hamilton don’t have a duty to indemnify the law firm and a partner in a malpractice case. That’s because they didn’t disclose a known risk…
A medical malpractice lawyer at Fulbright & Jaworski wasn’t entitled to a portion of the estate of her late companion, Henry J.N. Taub, a Houston area judge has found.
A New York City court erred by requiring a transgender man to provide medical documentation before permitting him to change his name, a Manhattan state appeals court panel ruled today,…
Cocaine was so prevalent in Bernard Madoff’s office that it was once called the North Pole, according to an expanded lawsuit that alleges a culture of “sexual deviance” and drug…
A perfect storm of political unrest, generational conflict and a biased judge set the stage for a 1969 trial that is still memorable 40 years later for its drama and…
A New York judge cut former prosecutor Paul Bergrin a break today on his sentence for operating a Manhattan brothel, ending the defense lawyer’s probation in the misdemeanor case and…
A New York immigration lawyer has been barred from appearing again before the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals due to missed deadlines that resulted in the…
A former law school roommate of Rod Blagojevich has agreed to help the feds with their corruption case against the ex-Illinois governor, in exchange for a recommended two-year prison term.
Nine Continental Airlines pilots apparently thought they had found a wily way to get around benefits rules when they divorced their wives, which allowed the women to collect pension money…
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