Delaware Supreme Court Rejects Motion for Re-argument on Record Attorney Fees
The record $305 million awarded in attorney fees by the Delaware Chancery Court earlier this year in the...
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Paralegal Fernando Goncalves Pleads Guilty To Fraud
On September 19, 2012, United States Attorney, David B. Fein declared that Fernando Goncalves, a paralegal who...
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Threat Of Spittle No Cause of Action against Opponent Counsel
In Okoli v. Paul Hastings, New York State Supreme Court, 152536/2012, the issues discussed while dismissing...
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''Sandusky'' Cover-up Charges: Schultz Wants a Separate Trial from Curley
On Monday, one of the two Pennsylvania State University administrators charged with failing to report...
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Oakland Lawyer Reprimanded for Sleeping with Client
Though the ruling is still appealable, as of last Wednesday, prominent Oakland County attorney Henry Baskin...
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Former Las Vegas Lawyer Who Fled the Country Sentenced to Prison
On Monday, Lawrence Davidson of Las Vegas, an attorney disbarred following the famous “Operation G-Sting”...
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Court Permanently Blocks a Section of Military Detention Law
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan made permanent her order blocking the...
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Spies Make Ardent Plea for Renewal of Surveillance Law, Legislators Act Deaf
On Tuesday, on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 attacks, U.S. intelligence officials publicly raised a plea for...
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U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore Rules for Education
K. Michael Moore is a United States District Judge who serves the Southern District of Florida. He was born to...
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Question Over 9/11 Double-dipping May Go to Jury
In a curious turn of events, a compensation case for additional damages, after the plaintiff has been fully...
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Did O.J. Simpson Get the Benefit of the ‘Glove?’
The ‘gloves’ incident that happened in the O.J. Simpson case and the subsequent assertion made by the...
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Bar Groups of New York City Challenge NY Indigent Defense Plan
Six bar groups have challenged the legality of the indigent defense plan of New York City, which was adopted...
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Minnesota Law on Corporate Political Spending Blocked by Appeals Court
On Wednesday, a split 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, temporarily blocked the law regulating corporate...
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Conviction Vacated on Presumption of Psychological Stress in Identification
On Tuesday, a divided Appellate Division, First Department, New York, vacated a 2008 robbery conviction,...
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Cyber Warfare Now Has a Manual
While treaties, pacts, and agreements like the Geneva Convention exist between countries with respect to...
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Three Law Students Sign Up With LawMeets
Law students don’t have to intern at big law firms over the summer to gain reasonable legal training before...
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The RICO Act and Nabbing School-Sex Abusers
In sex-abuse cases of minors and school cover-ups, while there’s no dearth of sympathizers and honestly...
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Supreme Court Agrees to Consider Question of Law Regarding Class-action
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider the constitutionality of a legal tactic that can...
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Federal Judge Bars Delaware Chancery Court from Hearing Private Arbitrations
On Thursday, a federal judge, Mary McLaughlin of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that arbitration...
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LegalZoom Proceeds Against North Carolina State Bar
On Monday, LegalZoom Inc received approval from court to proceed against the North Carolina State Bar in a...
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Lawyers Claim ‘Conflict of Interest’ over Law Firm Opposing $7.2 bln Settlement
A law firm retained by a group of retailers post to the $ 7.2 billion proposed settlement between retailers...
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Comedy of Errors Compels Court to Unseal ‘John Doe’ Docket
It’s a curious story of e-age media circulation and slips where a court is compelled to unseal ‘John...
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The Scandal That Shocked America
Jerry Sandusky was born on January 26, 1944, in Southwestern Pennsylvania. His father, Arthur Sandusky, is of...
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First Execution in Five Years Ordered in South Dakota
On Friday, South Dakota officials said that an inmate, who killed a prison guard while trying to escape, has...
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New York Objects to Plaintiffs' Lawyers Seeking $8 Million Fees in FDNY Discrimination Case
According to papers filed in the Brooklyn federal court on Thursday, the attorneys from Levy Ratner and Scott...
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Expert Reports Cannot Claim Automatic Privilege
On Tuesday, the Appellate Division, First Department found that an analyst’s reports that had been prepared...
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EPA Pollution Rule Overturned by D.C. Court of Appeals
On Tuesday, in a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit said that the EPA had exceeded its...
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NY Bill for ‘Notice of Claim’ Drawing Criticism
The New York State Bar Association and the Trial Lawyers Association, hold that the current process of filing...
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An Issue over the Application of New York’s Champerty Law
On Thursday, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Shirley Kornreich stayed the dismissal of a case upon champerty...
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Drama Heightens Over Next Chief Justice for Louisiana Supreme Court
On Thursday, the lawyers for Bernette Johnson, the first African-American on the bench of the Louisiana...
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