A book by former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gringrich used her copyrighted pictures of religious images in government buildings without permission, a photographer claims in a federal lawsuit.
Two lawyers in a Washington, D.C., firm already were facing a $10 million malpractice claim over a tax shelter matter when their situation changed for the worse.
In a sealed decision last week that was declassified today, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., orders the release of a 50-year-old Kuwait Airlines engineer and slammed the United States…
Within 15 minutes of when Melissa Mahler was asked by a client company’s CEO to draft a letter of intent concerning a potential merger in 2004, the then-Nixon Peabody technology…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has dismissed former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales from a lawsuit alleging that the U.S. Department of Justice illegally blacklisted job applicants based on…
Detainees at the American-run Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan will be allowed to challenge their detention under new Pentagon guidelines, but they won’t be represented by assigned lawyers.
Perhaps seeing the handwriting on the wall, the U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge to dismiss a major drug case with prejudice, and the judge has agreed.
The now-former Washington, D.C., administrative law judge who made international headlines after he filed a $54 million lawsuit against his dry cleaner over a missing pair of trousers is back…
A credulous paralegal is facing a potential two-and-a-half-year federal prison term after apparently being duped by a convicted child molester into participating in a bizarre alleged civil litigation scheme. Its…
Kenneth Loewinger has written a treatise on landlord-tenant law in Washington, D.C., that is relied on by judges. But the veteran practitioner, who has been a lawyer since 1971, was…
Joining in a call by private defense lawyers representing Zhenli Ye Gon to dismiss the federal drug conspiracy indictment against him with prejudice, two Washington, D.C., public defender agencies say…
It appears that much-publicized litigation brought by an administrative law judge in Washington, D.C., over a dry cleaner’s alleged loss of his suit trousers and the jurist’s subsequent loss of…
A high-profile former staff lawyer at Covington & Burling who accused the law firm of discrimination is back in the ballgame again with a federal lawsuit she filed against the…