Convicted of participating in corrupt practices that sent a number of Illinois judges to prison under the 1980s federal sting operation known as Operation Greylord, Thomas Maloney served more than…
Updated: Under fire last year for his alleged role in imposing unauthorized fees on criminal defendants, the chief judge of the Alapaha Judicial Circuit in Georgia has now reportedly been…
A Pennsylvania judge has ordered a small practitioner to pay a $5.2 million judgment, including $1 million in punitive damages, for charging unlawful attorney fees while collecting delinquent municipal and…
After a stunning loss in the value of Bear Stearns stock that cost employees and investors big bucks over the weekend and led to widespread turmoil in stock markets today,…
Jerome Kerviel says he used his manager’s computer at least one occasion as he racked up more than $7 billion in losses for French bank Société Générale.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a state forensic lab report can be admitted as evidence absent testimony from the expert who prepared it.
When a client of a Silicon Valley law firm balked at the expected seven-figure cost of searching through 100 million files, Fenwick & West found another…
A disabled client of a Texas law firm is reportedly feeling more secure after his counsel won a recusal motion that required the judge in his case to step aside.…
Enron employees who lost their retirement cash when the company collapsed were disappointed a second time when it was revealed that a company distributing a $218 million settlement payout got…
A Minnesota attorney reportedly is livid after Becker County officials admitted that they have been recording his telephone calls with an incarcerated client.
A London lawyer who was harassed and bullied by her colleagues at an asset management firm has won a record judgment of a little over $26 million to cover her…
An 11-year court battle over an excessive force case that could have been settled for $50,000 probably ended yesterday for the city of Palo Alto, Calif., when the state supreme…
West Virginia’s top court heard a dispute between two coal companies, one defunct and the other the nation’s fourth-largest, for a second time yesterday. This time, though, two justices have…
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