An Arizona Republic columnist has chronicled the case of Marie Long, who was worth $1.3 million when she suffered a stroke and came under protection of a Maricopa County, Ariz.,…
After 40 years of marriage, the wife of attorney Allen Schwartz thought she knew her husband. So she was stunned when he came home one summer day in 2001 and…
An Ohio judge is developing local rules for attorney guardians after hearing the case of a retired city worker who alleged his guardian’s actions cost his estate more than $400,000…
The estate of the deceased author of a children’s book has accused the author of the stunningly successful “Harry Potter” books of plagiarizing concepts and themes from Adrian Jacobs’ The…
When real estate investor Max Sakow died in 1956, his handwritten will left one-third of his estate to his wife and said the other two-thirds should be divided equally between…
A K&L Gates bill for $710,322 in legal fees and $95,868 in costs for defending a contested $1.2 million estate sparked objections from lawyers for family members arguing over a…
Within 10 years of earning a law degree from the University of Virginia and starting practice at Sullivan & Cromwell, attorney Louis Auchincloss was successful enough as an author to…
Allegedly making use of an attorney trust account that remained open for four years after he was disbarred as a Pennsylvania lawyer in 2004, former practitioner George Guyer Young III…
A Savannah lawyer and her husband have been declared dead by a Georgia judge, more than a year after they disappeared following a meeting with a bookkeeper they suspected of…
Celebrity Anna Nicole Smith’s former boyfriend and lawyer, Howard K. Stern, 40, will face trial on felony drug charges along with a psychiatrist and a physician for the onetime Playboy…
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