When attorney Joel Goldman developed tics, a neurological disorder similar to Tourette’s syndrome, and was eventually forced to give up his trial law practice, he made lemonade.
A new survey has found alternative fee arrangements are being discussed more often, but comments by some general counsel indicated there are several sticking points to such arrangements.
Lawyers who worked for a now-shuttered New Hampshire law firm that got into the mortgage modification business told of their ethical qualms in a hearing Thursday into alleged legal violations.
An award-winning, barrier-breaking federal district court judge has been nominated by President Barack Obama for a seat on the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
A former office manager for a West Virginia lawyer has pleaded guilty to one count of perjury concerning an alleged $275,000 scheme to defraud the state public defender’s office for…
After laying off hundreds of employees in the last few months, a law firm and related company known for their mortgage foreclosure work on behalf of lenders are now themselves…
A reported plan, by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, to cut the pay of its associates and counsel, going forward, by 20 percent, if they get more than 10 days behind…
A University of Illinois law professor thinks a change in lawyer regulations could help middle-class defendants who are being targeted in mass foreclosures and debt-collection suits.