By voluntarily withdrawing from 77 personal injury cases against a Florida-based cruise line after his law firm was accused of bribing an employee for inside information, attorney Jay Wingate was…
A Texas girl, then 12, who was allegedly accused by Galveston police of being a prostitute and assaulted when she stepped outside her family home has herself escaped conviction on…
Seemingly taken in a routine burglary at an employee’s home, a laptop computer stolen from a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs analyst in 2006—and recovered later that year, apparently without…
There were already hard feelings about Michael Hausfeld’s departure in November, along with 17 antitrust lawyers, from the class action firm he founded.
In a hard-fought municipal ordinance case pitting a Michigan man, supported by local environmental groups, against his township’s governing officials, a local judge has weighed in against the flourishing so-called…
A federal judge is so fed up with what he labeled a prominent defense firm’s history of “vexatious” litigation tactics that he has threatened to bar all 20 partners and…
Already serving a five-year prison term for his role in a scheme to bribe a Mississippi judge concerning a dispute over Hurricane Katrina legal fees, once-renowned trial attorney Richard “Dickie”…
When Chicago attorney Sam Adam was asked recently by a television crew why fellow counsel Ed Genson was planning to leave the legal defense team for now-former Ill. Gov. Rod…
Headed to Berks County Prison last week after a district court judge in Fleetwood, Pa., revoked his $5,000 unsecured bond in an underage drinking case, a 20-year-old defendant allegedly still…
Several municipalities in California seeking ways to trim their budgets are hoping to cut their legal fees, either by replacing their law firms or handing off some legal work to…
Although it’s not yet a final decision, a special panel of federal judges ruled today that California must begin planning to release tens of thousands of state prison inmates over…
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