Vinson & Elkins has agreed to pay $4.35 million to settle a lawsuit by the city of San Diego that contended the law firm’s probe into pension problems was incompetent.
Updated: As 10 legal ethics experts today protested the planned execution of a murderer convicted in a trial in which the judge allegedly was having a Jun 17, 2008 12:13 AM CDT
Although the White House Office of Administration has for decades considered itself subject to the Freedom of Information Act, in fact FOIA doesn’t apply to White House e-mails held there…
DNA evidence isn’t just helpful in violent crimes. It can also help police identify more burglary suspects (who often are involved in violent crimes, too), a new study finds.
The pet dog of deceased Leona Helmsley is losing $10 million of the $12 million that the 87-year-old hotel heiress left him in her will when she died last year,…
Clients in Collier County reportedly are complaining about several Florida law firms that have given money-back guarantees in traffic cases and then fought losing court battles on behalf of their…
A federal district court judge in Tennessee has been named a recipient of an inaugural ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section Liberty Achievement Award.
After years of nagging by nagging by Al Gentry, authorities in North Carolina agreed to take another look at the 1986 cold-case shooting death of his brother, Harold.
Updated: Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has declared a mistrial today in the high-profile obscenity case of Ira Isaacs.
Apparent plans by many London law firms to increase the billable rates they charge corporate clients this year by an amount exceeding inflation, in order to fund pay raises for…
A Minneapolis attorney has won $1.6 million from his former law firm, in a Hennepin County jury verdict over the division of $103 million in legal fees in a federal…
After news reports that he has posted sexually explicit materials online, Alex Kozinski, the chief judge of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has initiated a potential…
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