After a typical training session for new recruits, corporate paralegal manager Paula Nascimento braces herself for the barrage of phone calls, emails and pop-in visits that always follow. But on…
Updated: Once a New Jersey criminal defense lawyer best-known for his trial work on behalf of major gang figures and rap artists, Paul Bergrin has been jailed since 2009 on…
A Maryland criminal defense lawyer is facing a federal tax evasion case after allegedly hoarding $1.3 million in cash payments from clients over a six-year period in order to conceal…
Despite a hitherto unblemished disciplinary record over a 30-year legal career, a New York attorney appointed as a guardian to an incapacitated person has been disbarred for helping her prepare…
Corrected: An admittedly angry criminal defense attorney has been charged with a misdemeanor concerning an altercation he had with a female prosecutor outside a Pennsylvania district judge’s courtroom.
Twelve years ago, a two-page memo drafted at a breakfast meeting at Chicago’s Ritz-Carlton hotel outlined the visions of two leaders of midsize law firms to build the world’s leading…
The Iowa Supreme Court has rejected a proposal aimed at speeding up the lawyer discipline process by keeping secret the reasons for consent suspensions.
Bratz doll maker MGA has dropped a malpractice claim against O’Melveny & Myers, filed after the law firm sued for $10.2 million in unpaid fees allegedly owed in MGA’s copyright…
Orlando Magic basketball star Gilbert Arenas has failed to obtain a preliminary injunction to block the airing of Basketball Wives Los Angeles, set to air for the first time on…
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