The Massachusetts Appeals Court has overturned an order by a now-retired probate judge who authorized an abortion for a schizophrenic woman and decided sua sponte that she should be sterilized.
A federal judge in Massachusetts has given a former client of Ropes & Gray the green light to proceed with a malpractice suit over claimed cut-and-paste work done on patent…
Two attorneys have sued a well-known Boston law firm and its managing partner, contending that his alleged affair with one plaintiff’s wife, who is also a lawyer there, cost both…
A growing national labor and employment boutique is expanding into Massachusetts and Tennessee with the additions of well-known senior practitioners from other firms to its attorney roster.
A Dover, Mass., man pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday in connection with a money laundering scheme that allegedly included prominent Boston lawyer Robert A. George.
The highest court in Massachusetts has ruled that a law barring legal immigrants from a subsidized insurance program violated their rights to equal protection under the state constitution.
In at least the third would-be class action filed since technology blogger Trevor Eckhart last month reported that smartphones are providing carriers with private information about individual…
A Massachusetts lawyer has lost his license for a year and a day, pursuant to a stipulated agreement, for charging an elderly woman a contingency fee of nearly $94,000 in…
It appears that a series of alleged omissions and lies on college applications, as well as claimed plagiarism on at least one prestigious scholarship application, has finally caught up with…
A real estate lawyer in Massachusetts has taken a plea concerning his theft of nearly $600,000 in client funds he was supposed to distribute at two closings to pay off…
A bizarre case in which a veteran Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer admitted he took ice cream shop signs after concluding (wrongly, the shop owner says) that she had called the…
What’s a good-faith buyer to do if a foreclosed property purchased from a financial institution turns out to have been seized in a questionable court case?