After pleading guilty in a $1 billion federal securities fraud conspiracy case last year, Florida attorney Stephen Ziegler was sentenced to a five-year prison term and had his law license…
Updated: Visibly frustrated by the way that Internet technology has outpaced traditional law, a federal judge today nonetheless acceded to First Amendment arguments and said Wikileaks could have its Web…
Weighing in on a contested plea bargain in a criminal case over a deadly 2005 explosion at a Texas City refinery owned by petroleum giant BP, the New Orleans-based 5th…
The former general counsel of Covad Communications says he feels partly vindicated by a $5 million settlement of his derivative suit against the telecommunications company, even though he won’t receive…
Updated: An executive arm of the European Union has fined Microsoft Corp. a record $1.35 billion for failing to cooperate with a 2004 antitrust decision. It required the company to…
Former McAfee general counsel Kent Roberts’ quest for notes of a law firm’s corporate backdating probe appeared to run into a roadblock Monday in the form…
A Florida law firm helps retailers discourage shoplifting by sending civil recovery letters to those who are caught, prompting criticism and complaints to the Florida bar.
A New York appeals court has ruled attorney-client privilege does not protect documents requested by two former executives for American International Group Inc.
A traditional taboo against suing banks among big-league United Kingdom law firms is rapidly losing its power as legal eagles there and abroad rev their engines in anticipation of a…
In a recent discussion of leading plaintiffs firms filing class actions related to the subprime mortgage crisis, what Wall Street Journal Law Blog described as “San Diego-based…
Updated: A lawyer who was reported as simultaneously working as a full-time employee for five different Long Island school districts in order to qualify for a government pension and other…
A well-known Chicago-based firm is establishing a West Coast presence, raiding two San Diego law offices to open a six-attorney outpost there. (It will also be staffed from the outset…
When opinion letters apparently written by a prominent New Jersey lawyer were sent to Merrill Lynch Business Financial Services in 2004 along with alleged fake financial statements, the bank reportedly…
