A lawyer for 800 investors defrauded in Bernie Madoff’s stunning Ponzi scheme complains that trustee Irving Picard will be “richer than Madoff” once his law firm’s legal bills are paid.
After nearly two weeks of deliberations, two former partners of Jenkens & Gilchrist were convicted today by a federal jury in Manhattan on multiple counts in a tax-shelter case.
A former client has lost a legal battle to recoup a $6.3 million settlement stolen by his then-legal counsel Marc Dreier after it was wired to his attorney trust account.
Married, a father and a name partner in a Colorado law firm, Carl McGuire seemingly had his life structure set. Then he got the news that he was headed to…
A former office manager for a Santa Ana, Calif., law firm was sentenced today to four years in prison for skimming $502,000 from the accounts of Tustin Rinos and Martin…
An 83-year-old New York defense lawyer has been indicted on a felony count of promoting criminal contraband after he allegedly smuggled a cellphone into the Monroe County jail that helped…
Last month, we reported some of the digital tricks and interesting websites that lawyers should know, ones shared by panelists at the popular ABA Techshow sessions titled May 23, 2011 9:34 PM CDT
Saying that allowing an alleged Mexican drug kingpin to be represented by the lead lawyer of his choice could create significant distraction and delay during trial, a federal judge in…
An Arizona judge last week gave a green light to a lawsuit seeking to force a well-known law firm to turn over copies of its bills for representing the Maricopa…
Updated: A California lawyer who made headlines by advising clients to break into their foreclosed homes to repossess them is now a defendant himself on multiple related criminal charges.