The law firm of Michigan trial lawyer Geoffrey Fieger will pay $131,000 to resolve a probe by the Federal Election Commission, an amount that pales in comparison…
A former partner of Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone was sentenced to five years in federal prison today after pleading guilty in April 2008 to one count of conspiring to…
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has sued the lawyer who leaked steamy text messages to a newspaper, touching off a scandal that led to Kilpatrick’s resignation.
Onetime Detroit Red Wings star Sergei Fedorov has filed a federal lawsuit against his former lawyers, claiming their conflict with another client caused him to lose “tens of millions” of…
After earlier fining a Michigan lawyer $500 for naming a police dog as a defendant in a lawsuit over a bite, a state-court judge has now dismissed the claim citing…
A plaintiffs lawyer apparently ignited more of a controversy than he expected when, as he now admits, he provided copies to a local newspaper of steamy text messages between the…
After covering his $2,700 monthly rent on a Texas mansion and another $900 bill for his Cadillac lease, says Detroit’s ex-mayor, he can’t afford to pay another big bill. To…
A much-watched whistle-blower lawsuit by three former faculty members at Ave Maria School of Law is now concluded without ever having the central legal issue publicly addressed.
It sounds like a plot from a Lisa Reardon novel. But this criminal case isn’t fiction, and Reardon, rather than orchestrating the courtroom drama, is the real-life defendant.
The dean of the University of Michigan Law School offered Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. tickets to a football game and a $15,000 honorarium to make an appearance and…
A lawyer accused of violating legal ethics rules while representing then-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in police whistle-blower litigation did nothing wrong, says a former Michigan state bar president.
A white-collar criminal defense partner has resigned from Venable after stepping down in July from her role as an independent monitor of court-mandated Detroit police reforms.
A Michigan woman and an Islamic civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit against a Detroit judge today, contending that he insisted she remove her hijab, a religious head covering,…