A former New York art dealer is now included among an elite group of alleged white-collar master manipulators recently accused of defrauding others of monster sums.
In the latest chapter in an ongoing state-court corruption saga in Pennsylvania, a state supreme court ruling today is expected to reverse perhaps as many as 1,200 juvenile court convictions…
After news this week that a former top drug prosecutor in the Detroit area—along with a former local judge and two cops—had been criminally charged for allegedly helping present perjured…
A Pennsylvania prosecutor’s aggressive approach to so-called teenage sexting of explicit messages on cell phones has put him on the American Civil Liberties Union’s litigation list.
In the final chapter of a bizarre case at one point involving counterclaims that read like the plot of a John Grisham novel, a former partner at a Louisiana law…
A 22-year-old student at Brooklyn Law School who says he lost nearly $500,000 in purported assets invested with convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff has persuaded a New York judge to…
Working undercover to investigate whether the federal watchdog charged with enforcing U.S. labor laws is doing its job, agents of the Governmental Accountability Office found that nine of 10 complaints…
A receiver for Stanford Group Co. has asked a federal judge in Dallas to order a law firm that represented an Antigua-based bank at the center of a claimed $8…
When a melee broke out in his Fort Lauderdale, Fla., courtroom yesterday morning, one of Broward County’s newest judges didn’t make a safety play and retreat to chambers.
A Connecticut law firm representing a woman injured in an attack by a pet chimpanzee claims the animal’s owner should be strictly liable for owning a wild animal.
A New York appeals court has ruled e-mails exchanged between a legal recruiter and Blank Rome were not an enforceable contract requiring the law firm to pay a recruiting fee…
A racketeeting suit claims former lawyers from the Milberg law firm colluded with an expert witness in an investor suit against the troubled Stratosphere casino in Las Vegas.
Updated: Following a blistering closing argument by the prosecution on Monday, the defense team representing Phil Spector had its turn the following day and said the prosecution hasn’t proved…
In a filing today, the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denies disciplinary charges of misconduct and incompetence filed against her last month by the Texas Commission…
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