Upholding a San Diego Superior Court dismissal of a shareholder derivative suit against a law firm, a state appeals court agreed that the litigation against the law firm, which served…
Both a lender and a developer involved in a failed New York City real estate project are pointing fingers at their respective lawyers, blaming a $70 million loan default on…
A former partner of McGuireWoods has been given home confinement and community service for interfering with Internal Revenue Service efforts to collect more than $110,000 she owed in unpaid income…
A United Kingdom law firm ordinarily charges about 600 pounds for a divorce. But Follett Stock Solicitors has hit the headlines by offering them for free this month.
Twelve Grand Rapids, Mich., law firms signed a pledge this week to boost diversity through a collaborative five-year program that promotes the recruitment, retention and advancement of women and minorities…
Following the lead of at least six other New York-based international law firms in less than two years, Sullivan & Cromwell has added to its attorney roster in Hong Kong.
Briefly banned from practicing bankruptcy law in the Middle District of Florida, after one of its lawyers aggravated a federal judge, an Orlando law firm is now back in the…
In 2006, a Kentucky judge retired rather than face potential discipline for his role in overseeing a $200 million settlement in controversial diet drug litigation that sent two of the…
A federal jury has deadlocked in the mortgage fraud trial of an Iowa attorney accused of participating in a scheme to trick lenders into approving inflated loans that included kickbacks…
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