Overruling a professional disciplinary board, the Delaware Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded an attorney over the language he used in a legal brief.
Among other questionable language, the brief said…
When Royal “Scoop” Daniels disappeared from Breckenridge, Colo., late last month, friends feared foul play. But now police say the 61-year-old real estate lawyer may have left voluntarily.
A controversial billboard put up by a small matrimonial law firm in Chicago has been removed, a week after it went up, allegedly because it lacked a proper permit. Featuring…
Becker & Poliakoff doesn’t actually have an office at the city hall in Hollywood, Fla. But a couple of the firm’s lawyers reportedly are there so much that it might…
Often a target itself of claims by big business that it promotes frivolous litigation, a well-known American trial lawyer group is now pointing the finger at someone else.
In the latest chapter of an ongoing post-Katrina battle that has pitted a local prosecutor against a local judge, private lawyers are now being drafted to help deal with a…
Even before graduating from law school, summer associates at some Atlanta law firms, on an annualized basis, are earning more than seasoned jurists sitting on the state court bench.
Once upon a time, when a lawyer sent a demand letter to an alleged copyright infringer, demanding that he or she straighten up and fly right, that might well occur.…
This hasn’t been a great week for former Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson. Now a well-known lawyer at a prominent Chicago law firm, he spent several days this week testifying…
A small Chicago firm is merging with a larger St. Louis law shop, creating a new midsize firm in Chicago and strengthening the St. Louis firm’s hand against a competitor…
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