A South Florida attorney has been temporarily disbarred, by consent, after allegedly using obscene language, groping a flight attendant and carrying a 7-year-old child down the aisle while the plane…
Neighbors of a 7,000-square-foot house in a well-to-do California community were steamed when they realized that the homeowner apparently was renting it out for wedding receptions this summer.
Two lawyers in a Washington, D.C., firm already were facing a $10 million malpractice claim over a tax shelter matter when their situation changed for the worse.
After a history of progressive discipline over his aggressive litigation and courtroom tactics–which allegedly included, at one point, choking a 74-year-old judge after an adverse arbitration ruling, attorney Allen Feingold…
Judge Scott Stephens oversees a lot of divorce cases. But because the parties routinely represent themselves and are simply seeking a legal end to the relationship in his Tampa, Fla.,…
Lawyers challenging the California referendum that banned gay marriage in the state are seeking access to e-mails and other internal documents of referendum backers in a quest to show discriminatory…
The general counsel for Citigroup says his in-house legal department has been battered by the economic downturn, leaving him with little sympathy for law firm arguments for premium fees.
A court-appointed trustee in charge of recovering assets for those victimized by Bernard Madoff’s record-breaking $65-billion Ponzi scheme reportedly plans to sue the convicted swindler’s two sons, Andrew and Mark,…
In a sealed decision last week that was declassified today, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., orders the release of a 50-year-old Kuwait Airlines engineer and slammed the United States…
A Florida judge has awarded $750,000 in legal fees to the attorneys who pursued a hard-fought and much-watched citizen case that sought to hold officials in the town of Venice…
After years of alleged bad behavior that allegedly includes a history of biting, a “vicious” dog has been banned from Aspen, Colo., by a municipal court judge.
On Sept. 29, 2006, Joe Sharkey survived a midair collision 37,000 feet over the Amazon between a Brazilian 737 and a business jet. All 154 aboard the 737 died when…
An Illinois mom has filed a defamation suit over a fake Facebook profile in her teenage son’s name that included his photograph and real cell phone number.
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