A federal judge in Kentucky today sentenced to ex-lawyers to 20- and 25-year prison terms for bilking their former clients out of $94 million in fen-phen settlement money.
Kenneth Loewinger has written a treatise on landlord-tenant law in Washington, D.C., that is relied on by judges. But the veteran practitioner, who has been a lawyer since 1971, was…
Initially, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., filed suit against the county’s Board of Supervisors to attempt to gain control over computers in another county office containing criminal justice…
A Florida judge who declared a mistrial earlier this year after a company CEO texted an executive about his testimony during a brief trial break has now imposed additional sanctions…
A federal appeals court has revived a whistle-blower suit against a major pharmaceutical company concerning the marketing of its anti-anemia drug Procrit.
After Microsoft lost two big jury verdicts in patent infringement cases this spring, many observers expressed doubt that the computer goliath would ever have to ante up.
Thousands of juvenile convictions tainted by the work of a corrupt Pennsylvania judge should be dismissed and not retried, a judge appointed by the state supreme court recommended today.
Partners of a Tennessee law firm apparently didn’t immediately notice that a bookkeeper allegedly was issuing herself five-figure checks from an escrow account.
A federal judge in San Francisco gave preliminary approval today to a plan by the Social Security Administration to pay $500 million to settle a class action brought on behalf…
After Frank DiPascali pleaded guilty today to carrying out one of the biggest frauds on Wall Street with the help of unidentified “other people” who put together its fictitious books…
An 83-year-old woman can take her 87-year-old sister to trial over an alleged 1995 oral agreement that they would split the winnings if either one ever hit the jackpot, the…
After getting a guilty verdict this morning from a jury hearing a second-degree murder case against rapper Corey “C-Murder” Miller, a Louisiana judge told the panel in the Jefferson Parish…
Updated: A North Carolina lawyer has been criminally charged with altering court documents, obstruction of justice, forgery and uttering concerning a plea deal she allegedly changed in a speeding case.
Following news of a $60 million deal to make a feature-length film of hundreds of hours of Michael Jackson concert rehearsal footage, a Los Angeles judge said today that he…
A proposed $33 million settlement by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve allegations that the Bank of America didn’t disclose to investors that it was to pay $3…
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