Ambulance-chasing lawyers can be forced to pay a $10,000 penalty to each client they sign up in violation of the rules on attorney solicitation, under a new anti-barratry law that…
Imposing a more severe sanction than sought by the Missouri Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, the state supreme court has indefinitely suspended a lawyer convicted of his fourth drunken-driving offense…
Former Solicitor General Paul Clement, who made headlines two months ago when he resigned his BigLaw partnership on principle and moved to a small firm, says he has no regrets…
A Minnesota criminal defense lawyer is now representing, in a first-degree murder case, a man who is accused of killing a former client of the attorney.
Starting on its home turf in Arkansas, but with plans to expand the program, Wal-Mart’s legal department is providing free legal services for patients at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
Ogier has tapped Kristy Calvert, who previously headed mining giant Rio Tinto’s legal department, to launch an office in Shanghai, making it the first offshore firm to secure a formal…
Although it shed the legal consultancy Hildebrandt Baker Robbins, Thomson Reuters acquired the Australian online legal document company Cleardocs this week—a move that may signify the information giant’s confidence in…
On June 2, Epsilon general counsel Jeanette Fitzgerald sat before a congressional panel gathered to address the future of data-security legislation in the wake of a security breach that potentially…
A few law bloggers managed to score invites and field test Google+, the company’s new Facebook-style social network—and most liked what they saw. “Google+ appears to…
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