Sen. John McCain has apologized for his campaign’s unauthorized use of Jackson Browne’s signature 1977 hit Running on Empty in a settlement of a lawsuit filed by the singer-songwriter.
Actor Warren Beatty has lost his bid to avoid having to give a deposition on videotape in a dispute over television and film rights to the Dick Tracy comic strip…
Lawyers discussed competing settlement offers last week in an employee suit against Wal-Mart, leading the lawyer for the two named plaintiffs to accuse the company of “counsel shopping.”
A federal judge is mulling possible sanctions for multiple Central Intelligence Agency lawyers and two other CIA employees including a former director after finding that the agency committed fraud while…
Offered a suggested deal in a federal corruption case that would, at one point, have required him to plead guilty to one fraud count in exchange for a prison term…
A New Jersey appeals court has refused to toss a lawsuit claiming Duane Morris failed to explain the full economic ramifications of a case settlement to a client.
A libel suit brought by billionaire—or is that mere millionaire?—Donald Trump over an author’s claim that the real estate mogul’s net worth is only about $200 million has been dismissed…
The first of a series of legal ethics hearings has begun concerning five attorneys involved in a controversial $8.4 million settlement by the city of Detroit over police whistle-blower litigation…
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