Ten former partners of the bankrupt law firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and the two new firms they joined are facing lawsuits by a bankruptcy trustee.
Updated: President Bush’s use of executive privilege to prevent two top aides from testifying before Congress last year about the firing of nine U.S. attorneys is the most sweeping since…
More securities class actions, as well as increased efforts to obtain redress abroad, were predicted today by experts from the PricewaterhouseCoopers accounting firm. They also said that the growing presence…
Updated: A state court judge in Manhattan today dismissed four of seven counts brought by former 60 Minutes reporter and newscasting star Dan Rather against CBS.
In a deal meant to prevent further lawsuits, families of the victims in the Virginia Tech shootings have reportedly reached a $11 million settlement with the state.
Plaintiffs lawyers are expressing interest in 15,000 videos of Wal-Mart internal meetings being offered by a production company that recorded the company’s events for nearly 30 years.
A federal judge has awarded $412 million in additional fees to lawyers who sued the maker of the fen-phen diet-drug on behalf of thousands of plaintiffs.
As efforts to conduct military trials of terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison inch forward, some suspects and their counsel are not optimistic about the process.
A Christian group that includes lawyers and doctors says it will sue to try to overturn licenses granted to academics at two United Kingdom institutions to create human-animal hybrid embryos…
The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled against the state’s Judicial Tenure Commission, holding that Steven Servaas, a judge the commission had sought to remove from the state’s 63rd District bench…
As the countdown continues toward controversial military trials starting next month for terrorism suspects being detained by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay, two prominent law professors at major universities are…
A truck driver who has accumulated more than a 100 parking tickets in a years-long battle with Milwaukee over where he can park his rig when at home will be…
In a case that may be something of a signpost pointing to further litigation related to the subprime mortgage crisis, a bankruptcy trustee has filed suit against major investment banks…
An Ohio attorney who disappeared for several days last year while pregnant and later falsely claimed to have been kidnapped at gunpoint, has been sentenced to probation and a $300…
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