As the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 approaches its target date for submitting a package of resolutions to the association’s House of Delegates, the nature of the draft proposals it’s…
Paul Sweeney didn’t intend to make any money off a $250 startup incorporation package that Foley Hoag offered on the deal site LevelUp. But the marketing aspect of the email,…
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan decided a few years ago that competition for banking and accounting clients was so intense that it would be better to avoid representing those institutions.
Once a prominent New Hampshire attorney, Thomas J. Tessier was disbarred in 2008. He is serving a four-year federal prison sentence after allegedly funneling some $2.3 million from an estate…
A New Jersey criminal defense lawyer who formerly worked as a Hudson County prosecutor had taken a plea in a tax evasion case and agreed to give up his law…
Finding that “substantial mitigating factors” weighed against disbarring a lawyer who made $144,000 in improper client trust account transfers to help her law firm weather the recession, the Minnesota Supreme…
When Mel M. Immergut first heard the proposal from his Munich-based colleague Norbert Rieger, the methodical chairman of white-shoe law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy did something unusual.
A group of more than a half-dozen lawyers are visiting Northern Kentucky high schools to talk about money management and the importance of good credit scores.
An Iowa real estate lawyer who says he acted in good faith when he helped close nine real estate transactions for a rogue client was found guilty today in a…
Ordered to turn over two diamond rings worth an estimated $1.4 million to a Seattle bankruptcy court, an elderly real estate developer and his wife disappeared over the summer from…