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Politically-Connected
Lawyer Rothstein Accused of Looting Millions in Ponzi Scheme;
Attorney Accused of Helping Crookedest Lawyer Ever Funnel Cash; In Cleanup of Crookedest Lawyer Ever's Mess, Trustee Says G-Men
Playing Dirty; Scott Rothstein's Aide Expected to Face Conspiracy Charge;
Lawyer for Crookedest Attorney Ever Lived Rent-Free for More
Than a Year; Bankruptcy Lawyers: Rothstein Partners Made ``Fraudulent''
Transactions
Everything Must Go: Feds Throw Yard Sale With Lawyer Behind
Billion Dollar Ripoff's Stuff; The Lyin' King: Insurer Says Crooked Lawyer's Life Isn't Worth
What He Claimed; Rothstein's Firm Employees May Have `Criminal Culpability' in
Scandal; Lawyer Set to Plead Guilty in $1.2 Billion Fraud;
Complaint Seeks $4m from Lawyer in Scott Rothstein Firm; Sink's
Deputy Helped Law Firm; The Naughty List: Firm That Fronted for Ponzi Scheme Channeled Millions to Politicians; Feds Pursuing More Lawyers, Campaign Violation Links in
Rothstein Ponzi Case; Fort Lauderdale Police Chief's Ties to
Scott Rothstein Questioned; Baby Steps: Before Allegedly Running
Billion Dollar Scam, Lawyer Lied and Got Fired for It; Much of Scott Rothstein's Ponzi Funds Tied up in Collection of
Businesses; Scott Rothstein
Paid Himself $35 Million Last Year; Army of Lawyers Picking over
Remains of Rothstein Law Firm; Firm Founder
Arrested in Billion Dollar Ponzi Scam; Rothstein `Fraud'
Funded Campaign Donations; Attorneys React to Rothstein Arrest;
Attorneys react to Rothstein arrest; Scott Rothstein
Officially Disbarred; Fort Lauderdale Investment Firm Faces
Scrutiny in Scott Rothstein Probe; Feds: Ponzi Paid Salaries at
Law Firm; Juice Scam' Victim: I Was Lured into Scott Rothstein
Deal; Suit Alleges Massive Fraud by Scott Rothstein, Td Bank and
Others; Hospital Returns $1m Scott Rothstein Donation; Law Firm
Founder at Nexus of Huge Scandal Asks to Be Disbarred; For Firm Looted by
Scam Artist Founder, Bankruptcy May Be Only Option; Alleged
Florida Ponzi Scheme Could Top $1 Billion; Scott Rothstein
Accused of Separate $57 Million Swindle; Scott Rothstein
Accused of Separate $57 Million Swindle; High Life Brought
Low: Ponzi Scheming Partner's Assets Are Seized; Lawyer Scott
Rothstein Drained Pals to Live Life of High Roller; Floridian Firm's
Troubles Good for Lawyers (Except the Ones Who Work There); Tour
of Scott Rothstein's Office Reveals Gallery of Who's Who;
Sources: Lawyer Scott Rothstein Cooperating with Feds; Partners Ask Firm Be Dissolved
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Teen Charges Mom
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04-07-10
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Lawyer's and
Associates Salaries; More Gloomy Legal Job News; Patterns Emerge from Lawyer Layoffs: No One
Is Safe; Formula for Profitability: Cut Pay and
People; We Can Be Heroes, Firm Rescinds Job Offers to 10 Out of 14
New Associates; Another Firm Slashes Associate Pay; Latest Additions to Legal Job Market Face
Grim Math; Nonprofits Flooded With Young Lawyers Whose
Firms Delayed Their Start Dates; Recovering from Law Firm Layoffs; Latest
Layoff Wave Pulls 300 Attorneys, 500 Staff Under; Laid Off
Lawyers Find Themselves Adrift in a Crowd; Axed Associate Starts
Web Site for Dishing on Partners; The Coming Hiring Crisis; Addition by Subtraction?: Axing Associates
and the BigLaw Bottom Line; Punch the Clock, Lawyers for $35 an Hour: Some Small NY Firms Booming in Economic
Crisis; More Associate Layoffs to Dome in New York;
Firms Asks Some Senior Associates and Income Partners to Look
for Other Work; A Glut on the Market; Law
Is Making Its List, Checking It Twice, But Will Clients Be
Naughty or Nice?;
NY BigLaw Firm Axes 35 Associates, 25
Staffers; The New Math: Too Many Associates +
Too Little to Do = ?
Go Somewhere Else, Young Man!: BigLaw
Firm Asks 30 Associates, Paralegal to "Explore Opportunites
Elsewhere"; Go Somewhere Else, Young Man!: BigLaw Firm Asks 30
Associates, Paralegal to "Explore Opportunites Elsewhere"; Color
Code Your Panic With Our Early Warning Signs of Firm Failure; White & Case Layoffs Cut Deepest at
NY Office; Law Firms Feel Strain of Layoffs and Cutbacks; Another Firm Axes Associates in
Layoff; Survival Tips for Law Firms: Cut and Cuddle; Job
Prospects for Lawyers Left Adrift When Thelen Sank Are Grim;
BigLaw Learns Layoff Lessons; Which Economic News Do You Want
First; Economy, Elections Equal Boon for Employment Lawyers;
Lehman Brothers Owes NY Firm $2.8 Million in Unpaid Bills; It's the End of the World as We Know
It; Corporate Clients Slashing Spending on Outside Lawyers; A
Grim Verdict Awaits Law Grads; Two More BigLaw Firms Lay Off
Lawyers, One for Second Time; Amidst Credit Crash, Firms Face Tough
Time Collecting Fees; Firms Lassoing Clients With Old School
Ties; How to Look Busy When All Your
Clients Have Collapsed; Layoffs Launch Solo Career; Welcome to
the Future: Law After the Boom; Corporate Law Firms See Dark Days
Ahead; BigLaw Storm Warning; Married to Job?; Blood in the Water at the "Shark
Tank": Cadwalader's "Cataclysmic Event" Arrives; The Price of Partnership Is Going Up; Lawyers Fleeing NY Firm Say "It's the
Economy, Stupid!"; Legal Sector Loses Jobs for Third
Straight Month; Layoffs, Headhunters Confirm Bad
Omens: It's a Buyer's Market for Young Lawyers; Firm Cuts Attorneys' Pay by 12
Percent as Downturn Deepens; Get Your Head in the Clouds:
Rainmaking Now a Must for Making Partner; BigLaw Firm Denies Layoffs, But Axed
Associate Says Otherwise; Skadden Posts Huge Capital Gains; NY Firm
Axing Around 50 Associates;
April Is the Cruelest Month: Legal Sector Lost Jobs Again; Banks
Getting Tougher on BigLaw Loans; BigLaw Firm, Partner Settle Suit Over
Shrinking Survey: Women in Large Firms Advance At Same Rate, but
Earn Less Than Men; Pay on Billing GE
Millions; Thousand-Lawyer Firm Hands Operations Over to
Non-Lawyer; Down With Associate Pay! Seriously; More NY Firms Announce Extra Bonuses; Two
Firms Chart Different Courses in Wake of Tidalwave of Associate
Raises; Firm Scrambles to Deal With Lack of Work, Associates
Wrestle With Their Options; Need a Lawyer? Get Ready to Shell out Some
Dough; Simpson Thacher, First to Hike First-Year
Pay to $160,000, Now Billing $1,000 per Hour for Partners; Lawyers Quitting Law Firms
in Droves; Firm Boosts Associate Pay, Raises Bar on
Billable Hours; GCs' New Gold Watch on Fees; About That Huge Salary: It's a Longshot -
Most Law Grads Face Lower Pay and Debt; .Sun Shines on Select Law Firms; Culture Shock: Upstarts Look to Unseat Big
Law Firms; Trouble Brewing?: GCs Steamed About Biglaw
Pay Surge; Firms Feel the Pinch of Voodoo and the Associate
Raise; Summer Big Law Jobs Not Such a Hot Ticket for Some; Salary War Rolls On,
But Some Firms Still Won't Pony Up
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Judges in the News:
After a 16-Month Vacation, Acquitted NY Judge May Resume Bench
by Tomorrow; Manhattan Surrogate Acquitted in Election Law Case; Online Posts on Murder Trial Suspect Traced to Judge in Case's
Computer; Loveseat to Hot Seat?: Online Posts on Murder Trial
Suspect Traced to Judge in Case's Computer; House Votes to Impeach Federal Judge from
Louisiana; Prosecutor Faces Renewed Probe Over Cozyness With Judge in Death Case; What Again?: Texas Ex-Judge Convicted in Sex-Bribe Case; Rookie Judge Filmed Taking Cash (Could Have Been
Worse - FBI Says He Also Traded Sex to Fix Cases); Did They Play Mafia Wars?: Judge Steps Down Over Facebook
Relationship With Defendant; Judge Whose High-Flying Career Crashed and Burned Over Affair
With Stripper Avoids Jail; Civil Rights Group and Daughter of Executed Man Want
Court-Closing Judge Back on Trial; Ex-Judge Acquitted in Spanking Case Could Have to Wait Months to
Resume Practice; Judge Gets a (Metaphoric, of Course) Spanking From Appeals
Court; Panel Probing Removal Ask, Were Sibling Judges Sloppy or
Dishonest?; Moonlight Becomes You; His Honor, The Pimp: Ex-NY Judge Gets
Prison for Recruiting Prostitutes; Judge Suspended for Using Court Worker to
Run His Landlord Business; Tale of the Judge and the Mob Bagman Adds Ugly New Chapter to
Scandal; A Case for Impeachment of Fed Judge Kent; Colleagues Say Federal Judge
Kent Should Be Impeached and He Should
Forget About That Pension; Judge Discloses $2.4 Million Previously Unreported; Ex-Judge Pleads Not Guilty to Courthouse Kidnappings and Sexual
Assaults; Judge Accused of Routinely Leaving Work Early Agrees
to Resign; Judge Says Bribe Was Meaningless; Overexposed:
Stripper Strips Judge of His Career; Charges dropped against
Broward County Judge Terri Ann Miller; Lazy Judge Agrees to Resign As Soon as He gets His Pension So He
Can Get Paid for Doing Even Less; Judge Ralph Eriksson Was Mean, Wrongfully Jailed a Man; NY Judge, 55, Resigns From Bench After Giving False Testimony in
Companion's DUI CaseFiling in Court Scandal Claims Judge Met
with Mob Boss on Regular Basis; NY Judge Admonished for Soliciting Political Support of Attorney
in Her Court; Federal Judge Pleads Not Guilty to New Criminal
Charges; Not Guilty by Reason of You Are Insanely Hot!: No-Show Job: High
Court Suspends Newly Elected Manhattan Judge With Pay; Randy
Judge Jerked From Bench; Newly-Elected Manhattan Surrogate Pleads Not Guilty to Campaign
Charges; Former In-Law Alleges Judge Used Influence to Have Him Fired; NY
Judge Ousted From Bench; Judges Scuffle Over Office Equipment, Cops Called In; Judge
Accused of Offering Leniency for Sex Should Be Fired, Commission
Finds; Accused of Viewing Porn and Using Handicapped Parking,
Judge Quits;
Accused of Viewing
Porn and Using Handicapped Parking, Judge Quits;
Foul-Mouthed Judge Disciplined for Harangues From Bench; Federal Judge Slammed by 5th Circuit in Disciplinary Action; Former NY Judge Admits Providing Prostitutes for Pals; One NY
Judge Resigns, Another Disciplined Over Misconduct; Judge Again
Accused of Rudeness, Belligerence Towards Lawyers, Litigants; Phony Court Order; Sexual Harassment Probe of Federal Judge Widens to Look at
Gifts, Purchase of His Home; Who's Laughing Now?: Judge's "Joke" Gets Her Convicted of
Perjury; Ethics Flap Surrounds Judge Who Presided Over Politician ExPartner's Divorce; Editorial: How Do We Rebuild Trust in the Justice System?; Drunk-Driving, Cross Dressing Federal Judge Quits for Real;
Family Court Judge Slammed By Third Appellate District Court;
Family Court Judge Abused Contempt Power; Judge Disciplined for Ruling in Cases of Hubby's Bank; Judge's Pre-Retirement Ruling for Firm He Planned To Join Irks
Colleagues; New Traffic Judge Accused of Hitting Up Bikers for Cash; Judge Claims "Diminished Capacity" in Judicial Ethics Probe;
NY Lawyers Debate Judge's Ouster Over Courtroom Meltdown; Panel Seeks Reprimand for Judge Cheryl Aleman; No Stay of Complaint Proceedings for Judge Accused of Improper
Conduct; I Object! I Sustain Me!: Local Judge Suspended for Dual Role as
Jurist and Lawyer in Three Cases; Federal Judge Should Be Impeached, Peers Says; Federal Judge Lawyers Up, Requests Meeting With FBI Over Sexual
Harassment Allegations; Judge Refuses Recusal Over Associate Son's Job at Accused Firm; Judge Accused of Moonlighting, Faces Disciplinary Charges; Libeled Judge Faces Ethics Charges; Fire at Texas Supreme Court Justice Medina's Home Ignites
Mystery; Two Judges Charged With Taking Bribes From Bail Bondsman; Ousted
Judge Sues, Says He Was Cheated on His Pension; Ala. Judge Resigns amid Spanking Allegations; Irate Judge Asks
Jurors, "Anybody Else Want to Mess With Me?," Faces Ethics
Complaints;
NY Jurist Admits
Faux Pas, Says She'll Never Judge Again; NY Judges Bench
Colleague Over Math Homework;
Judge Indicted on
Federal Perjury Charge; Firm Lures Judge From Bench With Partnership; Ousted NY Judge Loses Again in Court Fight to Get His Job Back; Bx. Judge Is a Real @S$ Act; NY Judge Takes Fight With Ethics
Watchdog Public; Judge, Accused of Buying Seat on Bench, Sees
Libel Claims Against NY Post Trimmed; NY Judge Faces Removal From Bench Over Anti-Semitic Slurs From
Bench; NY Judge Refuses to Recuse Herself in Suit Over Co-op in Her Own
Building; Ex-NY Judge Admits He Quit Bench Over Ethics Gaffes; Mass. Panel Files Ethics Charges Against Judge Who Won $2M Libel
Award; FBI Raids Judge's Chambers, Questions Arise Over
"Self-Funding" Court; NY Judge Abruptly Resigns Amid Reports of Ethics Probe; Happy Father's Day: Deadbeat Dad Ex-NY Judge Ordered to Stay in
Jail; Fl. Judge Gerald Klein Abruptly Exits; FBI Reportedly Investigating Judge Over Car Crash Claims; Justice Apologizes, Admits Actions Had Appearance of
Impropriety; Hon. Deadbeat Dad: Ex-NY Judge Jailed Over $250,000 in Unpaid
Child Support; Bully Pulpit: Local Judge Accused of Misusing Office to Aid
Picked-On Son NY Judge, Facing Ethics Probe, Quits After Just 18 Months On the
Bench; NY Judge Disciplined for Stiffing Former Clients on Old
Debt; Deadbeat Ex-judge Gets Break in Court; Jury Finds Prominent Attorney, Two Ex-Judges Guilty of Bribery; Jogging Cops: We Saw Judge with Pot; Panel Drops Charges Against Former Judge; Judge's Firing Cited in Motion; Court Rips Deadbeat Ex-judge - Owes $230g in Child Support;
Wacky Judge: Who Needs Jury? - Makes Bizarre Statements
Discounting Need for Death-penalty Phase in Trial of Notorious
Thug; Threat' by Judge; NY Judge's Misplaced Papers Leave State
on the Hook; Orange Circuit Judge's Conduct under Scrutiny;
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Greenburg -
$100 Million NY Malpractice Claim Proceeds Against BigLaw Firm; Traurig: Fax Could Be Stake Through the Heart of Big Law
Partner's Career; Was Lawyer's Conduct Reckless in Hamilton Bank
Scandal?; Attorney's Trial Tied to Hamilton Bank Fraud Case; Ex-Partner Accused of Cover-Up Bid in Bank
Execs' Fraud
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Attorney Who
Blew the Whistle on Weepy Judge Gets Spanked, Cries Foul
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Lawyers in the News: Missing
Local Lawyer Turns Up In Attorney Focused Florida Rehab; NY
Lawyer Disbarred for Giving Gal Pal Inside Trading Dope; Pimp
Daddy, Attorney at Law: NY Lawyer Admits Running Bordello; "A
Little Nervous," Ousted NY BigLaw Partner Admits Swindling
Clients for $10 Million; Lawyer Busted for Insurance Scam, All
Kinds of Drugs; NY
Lawyer Faces Bribery Charge; NY Lawyer Who Admitted Ripping Off
His Clients for Millions Wants Them to Pay His Fees;
Execution-Style Murder of NY Lawyer, His Wife Blows Lid Off
Alleged $1 Million Conspiracy; Two
NY Lawyers, One Ex-Lawyer Arrested in Mortgage Fraud Probes; NY
Lawyer Busted in Bribery Scheme; Disbarred Attorney, Partners
Busted for Scamming Struggling Homeowners; Ex-BigLaw Partner
Charged in Corruption Probe; The Attorney and the Jailhouse
Lawyer: NY Man Disbarred for Having Convict Do His Lawyering; FTC
Seeks Contempt Charges Against Lawyer Who Won't Turn Over Fees; Reject NY Attorney's Bid to Resign "Gracefully," Disbar
Him; Closing Bell: Lawyer Admits Losing Million of Clients' Cash
Playing the Stock Market; Disbarred NYer and Ponzi Scheme Embroil BigLaw Firm in
Malpractice Fight; NY Mainstay Firm, Partner Accused of Role in
$7 Billion Fraud; Attorney Indicted for Taking Bribe to Coach
Client to Lie; Attorney Indicted for Taking Bribe to Coach
Client to Lie; Lawyer Run Out of Town in Banking Scandal Gets Partnership at
Major Firm; Lawyer Gets Trashed, Disbarred NY Lawyer Busted for Forging
Ruling in Case He Never Filed; Winds Up Canned;Ex-NY BigLaw Partner Really
Going to Prison for Faking Expense Reports; Lawyers Stealing
From Lawyers - He Done a Bad, Bad Thing; Foreign Trusts Allege N.Y. Lawyer 'Shamelessly Looted' Millions
From Bank Accounts; Ex-Partner Gets 15 Years for Ripping Off Millions From His Firm; Lawyer Convicted of Mortgage Fraud; Attorney's Office Shut Down for Alleged Illegal Practice of Law; Famed Civil Rights Lawyer Faces Bar Charges; NY Lawyer Indicted
for Ripping Off $735,000 in Real Estate Deal; Lawyers Who Made Job Offer to the Judge on Their Case Sued by
Opposing Party; Divorce lawyer Raoul Felder Sues Alliance Bernstein Over Lost
$200,000; NY Lawyer Clashing With Judge May Face Sanctions Over
Accusations; NY Lawyer Suspended for Forgery; Lawyer Suspended for Accepting Nude Dances; Lawyer Who Stole $300,000 for Nestegg Going to Prison; NY Lawyer
Accused of Stealing More Than $5 Million; Charges Stand Against
NY Lawyer in Benefits Fraud Case; Lawyer Caught Up in Internet Scam Faces $200,000 Suit From Bank; NY Firm Sees Fees Bid Slashed in Fight Over Rejected Will; Imprisoned Pol Surrenders His Law License for Five Years; Flip-NY Firm Ruled Liable for Florida Firm's Foulup;
Prominent Lawyer Is a "Sexual Predator" and a Cheat, Fired
Staffer Claims;
Disbarred Lawyer Pleads Guilty, Headed to Prison; GC Apologizes for Saying Judges Were "Paid Off," Accepts
Reprimand; Disbarred NY Lawyer Admits Ripping Off His Grandparents; New Kind of Jailhouse Lawyer: BigLaw Partner Should Face
Criminal Charges, Bankruptcy Counsel Tell Judge; Pol-Turned-Felon
Gets to Keep His Law License; Witness's "Amnesia:" $500,000; Getting Away With $1.9 Billion
Fraud: Priceless; Lawyer for One Month Convicted of Extortion
Says He Was Just Trying to Settle Case; NY Government Lawyer Fired for Running Solo Practice On the Side
for 20 Years; Judge Faults NY Firm's "Frivolous" Pursuit Of Case; Chase Bank
Sues Law Firms Claiming Debt-Relief Scam; Jailed Lawyer Faces More Heat From SEC in $1 Billion Scam; Bookkeeper Who Stole $4 Million From Brother's NY Law Firm
Pleads Guilty; Former In-House Lawyer Avoids Prison in FBI Fraud
Case; NY Lawyer Admits Stealing $2.1 Million; NY Lawyer Sees
Plea Deal Unravel After Swindled Ex-Client Tells Judge He's
Being Conned; Illegal Bills: Lawyer Busted for Counterfeiting;; NY Lawyer Accused of
Stealing $266,000 From Client; NY Lawyer Loses License for 30 Months Over "Exorbitant" Fees,
Ethical Breaches; Lawyer's Bullying Secretary Over Weight, Demands She Exercise
Were Likely "Outrageous," Judge Rules; Disbarred Lawyer Gets 41-Month Term for Settling Clients' Cases,
Keeping the Cash; Prosecutors: Judge Was Told That Ruling for
Star Litigator Could Be Ticket to the Federal Bench; The Legal Trail in a Delta Drama - Richard Scruggs; Lawyer Who Testified Against Partner for Ripping Off Clients Is
Now Charged With Doing the Same; Lawyer Who Sexually Assaulted
Five or More Minors at Courthouse Sentenced to 25 to 50 Years; Corporate Attorneys Mull Meaning of NY BigLaw Partner's
Indictment; Corporate Attorneys Mull Meaning of NY BigLaw
Partner's Indictment; Solo Faces 73 Criminal Counts for Leading 25-Year, $2 Million
Fraud Scheme; Attorney Headed to Jail for Helping Lawyer-Husband
Shake Down Her Lovers; Attorney Get 15 Years in Prison for Bilking Elderly Clients Out
Of $13 Million; Attorney Indicted for Helping Clients Avoid $4.6M in Taxes; Missing Connecticut Lawyers Turns Up Dead; Attorney Arrested in
Internet Sex Sting at Statehouse; Disbarred NY Lawyer Headed to
Prison for Ripping Off Clients; Claims of Adultery, Forgery Have Firm, Lawyers Looking for Way
Out, Dodging Subpoenas; Fugitive Local Lawyer Leaving Few Clues for Cops; Lawyer's Assistant Wore Wire for FBI in Fee Scam Case, Defense
Claims; Fla. Prosecutor Charged in Sex Sting Kills Self; Suspended NY Lawyer Charged With Selling Old Man's House Out
From Under Him; Lawyer Admits He Orchestrated Plot to Defraud Companies; I Covered up Church Porn: Att'y; NY Lawyer Disbarred for Treating Clients Like "Commodities"; NY
Lawyer Accused of Saying He'd Make Charges "Go Away" as Come hither Line; Ex-top Lawyer Louis Robles Faces Prison; Federal Prosecutor
Arrested for Making Date to Have Sex With 5-Year-Old Girl;
Famous Litigator Pleads Guity to Defrauding Clients, Faces Up to
15 Years in Prison; Reprimand Sought for Local Attorney Who Wrote Scare Letter to
Ethics Grievant; Lawyer Found Naked at Courthouse With Girl, 14, Pleads No
Contest; Ex Prosecutor Admits Sex With Judge in Courthouse,
Loses License for 3 Years; Husband-and Wife NY Attorneys Busted
in Fraud; Lawyer and Two Judges He Bribed Are Sentenced to Prison; Missing Lawyer Stuns Partner-Son With Criminal
Confession, Advice, and Farewell; Litigious NY Lawyer Barred From Suing on Her Own Behalf Says She
Is Victim of Judicial Conspiracy; Lawyer Indicted For Paying More Than $3M in Bribes and
Kickbacks; Well That's Hardly Playing Fair: Firm Asks Bank About
Buying Opposing Counsel's Mortgage; Denied Entry to Bar, Law
School Grad's "Rubber Check" Business Now Called "Fraud on
Court"; Violated in the Peeper's Court Att'y 'Pu Spy Cam' on
Undressed Staff; Never Mind a Slice - Ferry Lawyers Want Slabs of Pie; NY Lawyer Admits Ripping Off Elderly Client; Local Lawyer Dented
by New Charges of Staging Auto Accidents; Local Lawyer's Sex With Client, Brings Angry Husband to His Door
and Discipline From the Bar; NY Attorney Admits Robbing $550,000 From Aunt; Judge Rejects Ex Lawyer Robles' Plea Deal; Famous and Disbarred Lawyer Robles' Girlfriend Lands Him Back in
Jail; 'Teddy' Rap; Husband and Wife NY Lawyers Confess Insider Trading; Lawyer's
"Life's Short. Get a Divorce" Billboard No Longer A Roadside
Attraction; Lawyer's "Life's Short. Get a Divorce" Billboard No
Longer A Roadside Attraction; Lawyer's Alleged "Bedside Manner"
Triggers Ethics Probe; Judge Wants to Hear from Victims in Asbestos Fraud Case; Asbestos Attorney Accepts 10-Year Term in Plea Deal; Lawyer Indicted in Porn Probe Says Feds Overreached; Lawyer's
Hoax Spurs Debate on Legal Tactics, Ethics; Lawyer Guilty of Medicare Fraud; Suspended Metro Solo Can Practice Again, But Can't Be Alone With
Women; Husband-and-Wife Lawyers Face Trial for Demanding
Payments After Wife's Affairs; NY Lawyer Who Helped Convict Brooklyn Judge Sentenced to Prison
Time; Lawyer Caught With Pants Down (and 14-Year-Old Girl in Tow) at
Courthouse; Lawyer Who Blew Whistle on Judge Pleads Guilty to
Thefts; Pimp Slaps Betrayal, Claim Greedy Lawyer Stole his Brothel; NY
Lawyer Arrested in Las Vegas, Charged With Stealing $1 Million
From Aunt; Ex-Partner
Accused of Cover-Up Bid in Bank Execs' Fraud;
NY
Partners Face Disbarment Over Tactics to Rope In Clients; NY
Attorney Arrested for Encouraging Fraud; Metro
Lawyer Faces Suspension Over Threats to Collect Inflated Fees; Military
Lawyer Who Worked in Bush White House Was Disbarred 23 Years
Ago; NY
Associate Suspended for Taking $2,000 "Fee" From Opposing Party;
Lying, Balky Client Opens Door for $670 Million Judgment; Metro
Lawyer in Ethics Flap Trying to Take Rap for Son Who Fled
Accident; Lawyer's
'Lies' Sent Me to Bad Pa; Lawyer
Faces Disbarrment After Billing Client Who Was Never a Suspect
Over $90,000; Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Ripping Off Clients for
$800,000; Slow
Lawyers - Alleged Coverup of a Suit that Was Never Filed; Panel
Wants Lawyers Disbarred - 2 Accused of Extortion in Demoulas
Battle; Metro
Lawyer Who Billed $1,500 Per Hour Fights Ethics Charge; Police:
Attorney Says More Clients Bilked out of $500,000; Lawyer
Negotiated Settlement; Pocketed MoneyMetro Lawyer Arrested for Stealing Millions; Noel, ExProsecutor May Lose Bar Cards;
(Note not license) NJ
Attorney General Resigns Over Boyfriend’s Traffic Stop; $
Cam
Lawyers Slammed; NY
Lawyer Disbarred for Deceiving Judge; NY Lawyer Loses Appeals of
His Conviction for Laundering Drug Money; NY Lawyer Disbarred for Forging Judge's Name; Lawyer
Drags Himself Into Court Wearing Skirt in Protest; NY
Partner Disbarred for Stealing From Firm; Lawyers Broke Law; Well-Known NY Lawyer Can Keep Client's Fee Without Retainer, Judge FindsAdmitted Misconduct;
Disbarred Litigator
Louis Robles Faces Life in Prison;
Attorney's Affair With Criminal Leads to Litigation and
Bankruptcy; $200m House Mortgage Scam; Fla. Defense Attorney Faces Disbarment for Witness Tempering; NY
Lawyer Disbarred Over Extortion Attempt; Fired Prosecutor Wins $1.5 Million in Jury Award; NY Lawyer Suspended, Must Pay $428,000; Solo Challenges
Courtroom Pledge of Allegiance as Offensive and Objectionable;
NY Judge Blasts Lawyer for Putting Private Eye On His Tail,
Refuses to Bow Out of Case Disbarred in NY, Practicing in Jersey: New York Lawyer Suspended
For Fixing Parking Tickets in $12,000.00; For Now Anyway, Claims NY Bar Procedure Denied Him Due Process; NY Lawyer Disbarred for Fraudulent Billing; Lawyer Rai$es the Bar, $1,000 an Hour; NY Lawyer Suspended for Three Years Over
Lies During Murder Trial; $
42 M 'Heir' Blitz: Lawyer Guilty of Fax Forgery; Chicago Lawyer "Loathed" at City Hall; Attorney's Request for Fee Hike Called "Outrageous"
Ex-lawer King of Torts Louis Robles' Bankruptcy Hearing Pack Court; Greed Before the Court; School Bill Outrage; NY Lawyer's Federal Fraud Trial Begins - Stealing from Escrow
Account; Attorney Suspended for Lying in Her Own Divorce; Candyman Bronx Lawyer
Is "Balled" Out; Game Over for Lawyer's $2m "Theft"
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Aim at Judge Who Married Woman to Silence Her Testimony Against
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Adoption: Baby Blues: NY
Lawyer Arrested in Adoption Scam Mulls Plea Deal; Charges Against NY Lawyer
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The Billable Hours
and Attorney Fees and Salaries: Should Have Called "No Backsies!":
Firm Repaying $3.2 Million in Fees Due to Ex-Partner's; BigLaw Firm Fires Partner
Charged in Overbilling Scandal; Thinking of Raising Hourly
Billing Rates? Get Ready to Rumble; Thinking of Raising Hourly
Billing Rates? Get Ready to Rumble; NY Partner Fired for Not Meeting
Billing Targets During Wall St. Meltdown Sues Firm; In-House
Lawyers Say They Are Too Busy to Hire BigLaw; NY BigLaw Firm Sued for
Allegedly Overbilling Clients for Legal Research; Hard Times Have GCs Taking a
Hard Look at Law Firm Bills; Harsh Times Have Clients
Grousing About the Billable Hour; Battle Royale Brews Over
Billable Rates; The Fine Art of Overbilling; Mid Sized Firm in Florida Sees
Revenues Drop Nearly 9 PercentBigLaw Firm Sacks 60 Lawyers, 89
Staffers; From Worse to Worst: Law Firm Profits to Continue
Slide in '09; Law Firms Keeping an Eye on
Client IOUS; Ka-ching-ing in the New Year!:
BigLaw Partners Seek $1,100 Per Hour in Bankruptcy; $285 an Hour for a Summer
Associate?: Firm Goes to Court Over BigLaw Rival's Billing
Rates; The New Math: Too Many
Associates + Too Little to Do = ?; More Clients Demanding More
Choices on Billing; Trading Places; We Were Told You'd Bring Billables; As Deals Plummet, Law Firms
Focus on New Opportunities; Top NY Firm Reports Surge in
Revenues; More Bad News From the "Shark Tank": Profits Drop
After Layoffs; BigLaw Firm Freezes Some
Salaries as Year-End Cash Falls Short; After Law School, Do You
Have to Be a Lawyer? Silver Haired Partners Hunting Gold for
Training Replacements; Bonus Bounty: Some Associates Getting
$100,000, Others Not So Much; BigLaw Bumped Rates Higher, So Some Mid-Sized
Firms Did Nicely, Nicely, Thank You; BigLaw Firms Cash In on
Subprime Feeding Frenzy; BigLaw Firm's Latest Cash Cow Is
Bankrupt Subprime Lender; BigLaw Firm Rumored to Be Eyeing NY Merger as
Revenues Soar; Cadwalader Lays Off 35 LawyersStill Gaining Atmosphere - Elite Firms
Continue to Boost Billing Rates, and Clients Aren't Happy;Small Client Accuses BigLaw Firm of Neglect
in Malpractice Suit; What Legal Superstars Charge; Portion Control: NY Judge Rejects Fee
Totaling Two-Thirds of Settlement;
The Billable Hour: Demanding, Disparaged and Now Dead at Least
at One Atlanta-based Law Firm; Big Firms Warming Up to Alternative Fee Deals; Stressed Out
Associate's Death Ruled an Accident; Big Bad Bills:
Padding Hours and Double Billing Clients On the Rise also
see:
American Bar
Association Report
on Billable Hours
- A Critical Report
on the Attorneys' Hourly Fees
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03-23-10
from
10-30-07
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Whistle Blowers:
Fired Techie Aims to Take a Byte Out of NY Firm; NY Attorney Gets Her Day in Court Over Firing by Disciplinary
Committee; Attorney's Whistleblower Suit Against Former Firm Reinstated; NY Lawyer Fired
From Attorney Watchdog Job Can Sue State for Retaliation;
New York State
Denies "Whitewashing" Ethics Complaints Against Attorneys; Attorney
Disciplinary Body Immune From Claims of "Whitewashing," Judge
Finds
Lawyer Claims
Lawyers Whitewashed: NY Lawyer Suing Attorney Watchdog Group
Fires Her Lawyer, Hires Her Daughter; Complaints Against
'Select Attorneys' Whitewashed, N.Y. Lawsuit Alleges
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03-23-10 |
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The New Capitalist Anarchy
and the Lobbyist Bubble |
03-19-10
from
07-17-05 |
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Robin Hoods or Legal
Hoods? Choose Your Own Punchline:A Month Out of Prison,
Disgraced Firm Founder Bill Lerach to Speak at Law School; Mel Weiss, Other Former
Milberg Partners Snared in Madoff Scam; Attorney in Milberg Case Draws Two-Month Prison Term;
Lawyer in Kickback Scheme Has Prosecutors Go to Bat for Him on
Sentence; Milberg Weiss: NY Firm Defends Pay Deal With Partners Who Pleaded Guilty
on Kickbacks; Judge Approves NY Firm's $75 Million Mea Culpa,
Drops Charges; Milberg Agrees to Pay $75 Million to Settle Criminal ChargesNew York Lawyer; NY Firm Founder Gets 30 Months in Prison; NY Law Firm's Scheme Hurt Shareholders, Study Claims;
Ex-NY BigLaw Partner Charged in Second Fraud Scheme; NY Firm
Moves to Reduce Criminal Forfeiture in Scandal; Milberg Weiss Founder Melvyn Weiss Pleads Guilty in
Kickback Scheme; abuMilberg Weiss - Former Milberg Weiss Expert Witness
Agrees to Plead Guilty to Perjury; NY Firm Bats .200 in Keeping
Itself Out of Court on Kickback Charges; Scruggs Contrite and Cowed, "Scariest Lawyer in
the World" Gets 2 Years; Lawyer Sentenced in Kickback Scheme; Retired Lawyer Sentenced in Case Over NY
Firm's Alleged Kickback Scheme; Judge Rips One NY Firm for Greed, Another
for a Possible Conflict; Legal Giant Pleads Guilty in Kickback
Scheme; New York
Law Journal
Law Also Applies to Lawyers; NY Name Partner Indicted, Could Face Up
to 40 Years in Prison; Prominent Lawyer to Be Indicted; Founder
of Two National Firms Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy, Is Disbarred; NY Name Partner Pleads Guilty in
Kickbacks Scheme, Forfeits $7.75 Million; Troubled NY Firm Defeats Bid to Oust
It
From IPO Litigation; Feds Win Milberg Discovery Battle; New
York Lawyer; The Fall of America's Meanest Law Firm; NY Judge Backs Indicted Firm for Spot in Back
dating Case; Milberg Weiss, Name Partners Plead Not Guilty as
More Lawyers Head for the Exits; If a Dwindling Milberg Is Convicted, Who Pays the Price?; Former Milberg Partners Seek Capital, Fees; Politico Aims to Ax Embattled NY Firm; Milberg Former Partners Indicted; After 41 Count
Indictment Denied Charges: Milberg, Weiss, Law Firm in $11m Scam ; Clarence Bid
to Stay out of Jail Former Partners
Indicted; A Prominent Law Firm Prepares for Indictment; A Three-
year Investigation into Whether Mr. Lerach and
His Former New York Law Firm, Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman,
Had Used Illegal Tactics in Shareholder Lawsuits That Made Him and the Firm Rich and Famous
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03-16-10 |
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Holland and Knight
BigLaw Firm Can't Shake Suit That It Enabled $168 Million Ponzi
Scheme |
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03-13-10 |
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In Hard Times,
Lured Into Trade School and Debt -More Class Action Suits |
03-12-10
from
11-01-07
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Mortgage Crisis, Foreclosures,
Lawsuits: "Foreclosure Mill" Law Firms Cash in Big on Homeowner
Woes; If Lenders Say The Dog Ate Your Mortgage; Banks Starting to Walk Away on Foreclosures; The Welfare King of the 21st Century; Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime; Foreclosure Auctions Clog the Courts; Lawsuits Rising as Preconstruction Buyers Want out in
Depressed Market; Fiasco:
Poor Poorly Served in Home Loss; Fund Frozen, Florida Towns Feel the Pinch ; Subprime Satan in Hedge Fund Hell; Mortgage Probes Face Big Hurdles
Scrutiny Grows, but Banks' Liability Remains Unclear; 31 Arrested in
Mortgage Fraud Scheme; As Owners Feel Mortgage Pain, So Do Renter;
Foreclosures Hit a Snag for Lenders - Investors Do Not Own Mortgage
and So Cannot Sue; Cuomo Accuses Appraiser of Inflating Home Values
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03-12-10 |
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Local Firm That Offered
Job to Sitting Judge Off the Hook in Lawsuit |
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03-12-10 |
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DC Madam's Lawyer, Behind
$100,000 on Child Support, Loses License for Three Years -
Sibley Claims "He Is a Lawyer Who Doesn't Give a Damn About his
Career and Will Do Anything For Them (Clients)"
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03-12-10 |
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China Lashes Out
at U.S. on Human Rights: China Calls U.S. a Hypocrite Over Human
Righ;ts Report on Human Rights Violations in
US
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03-11-10
from
12-09-02
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NY Judges' Battle Over
Pay Raise and Other News and Politics: Cuomo Hands Paterson Case to
a Ex-Judge Judith Kaye; Denial of Raise Is Ruled Unconstitutional; Paterson Says His Bill Would Resolve Suits
Over NY Judges' Pay; Lawyer Set to Plead Guilty in $1.2 Billion
Fraud; Judge Who Promoted Recusal as 'Weapon' Over Pay Shot Himself
in the Foot; NY Chief Judge Steps Up Lobbying to Obtain
Pay Raises for Judges; NY Judge Again Orders Albany to Raise His
and His Colleagues' Pay; No Pay Hike for NY Judges Until Economy
Improves, Governor Says; Budget Glitch Does Not Mean Raise, Judges
Told; Checks and Balances: NY Judge Cites
Legislature's Stall on Judicial Pay Hike as Reason for Recusal; Former Chief Judge Judith Kaye Joins Skadden Arps as Of Counsel; Senate Confirms Lippman as Chief Judge;
How Shelly Silver Made His Pal Chief Judge; Paterson Taps NY Judge to Lead High Court; Hispanic Bar Groups "Shocked" By Nominee
List for NY's Chief Judge; The Reform that Never Was and Other News: Courts Offer
Flat Spending Plan As State Faces 'Grave' Economy; Panel Weighs
'Actual' Versus 'Threatened' Harm on Pay; NY Courts Audit Reveals
$14 Million Discrepancy; Judges' Group Backs
Judges Who Seek Recusals Over Pay Raise in Cases of "Conscience"; Price Fight - Live!
Judith Kaye Suit on Judicial Salary; Under OCA Contract, Some
NY Court Staffers' Wages Frozen Until Judges' Pay Is Raised; New York Judge Orders Pay
Raise for New York Judges and Comments from the Public; Judges
Already Well Compensated, Paterson, Silver Argue in Kaye Suit; N.Y.
Judge Orders Himself a Raise Could Cost Taxpayers $700 Million;
The Wrong Defendants; Governor, Legislature Ordered To Raise Pay of
State's Judges; Crisis? What Crisis? No
Mass Recusal of Judges; Poll Finds New Yorkers
Oppose Pay Hike for Judges; NY Judges Warned Against
Insulting Legislator, Retaliatory Recusals in Pay Impasse; Officials Named in NY
Judges' Suit Demanding Pay Raise Lawyer Up; Chief Judge Kaye Sues
State to Secure Judicial Pay Hike; New York State Judges Show Little
Judicial Restraint when Suing for Pay Raises; Raise Again Out of Budget; Kaye
Talks of April Lawsuit; Chances for Pay Raise for
NY Judges "Very Difficult," Incoming Governor Says; NY Lawyer Who Moonlights
as Justice Emerges as Favorite to Lead Judicial Watchdogs; Second Suit by NY Judges
Demanding Pay Raise Gets Greenlight; Wachtell Partner Tapped
to Sue NYS Over Judges' Pay; NYC Tightens Reins on NY
Lawyers Appointed by Judges, New Rules Affect Expert Witnesses and
Getting Paid; Justices Uphold New
York’s Judge System; A Defeat for Judicial Reform; Ruling on Judges
Reverberates Across Boroughs; NY Judge Says Low Pay Is
Forcing Him to Quit; NY's Chief Judge Offers
New Plan for 2008 to Get Colleagues First Raise Since 1999; NY's Chief Judge, at "End
of My Patience," Says She'll Sue Over Judges' Pay; NY Judges Suing For Pay
Raises See Most Claims Rejected; NY Courts Focus on Funding Judicial
Pay Hike in Budget Request; Accusations Against NY
Judges Trigger Record Number of Probes Last Year; NY Judges Get Boost in
Benefits, Pay Still Frozen Since 1999; NY Judge Files Three Lawsuits
Over Rivals' Endorsements By Minor Parties; 1Supreme Court Weighs N.Y.
Judge System; Disgraced Ex-Chief Judge Is Readmitted to NY Bar; NY Judges Sue for 26 Percent
Raise, Retroactive Pay; Judges From Four Groups to Sue
N.Y. State for Pay Hike; NY Name Partner Criticizes
Basis for Censuring Judge; NY Judge Suing to Raise His
Pay Recuses Himself, Citing Lawyer's Political Office and Nice Shiny
Tie;
NY Judges Jostle Over
Eligibility for Upcoming Election; NY Judges Denied Raise Claim Pols Should Forfeit Salaries; Wait and Seethe: NY Judges
Won't Sue Over Pay . for Now; NYS and NY Judges Show Their
Cards in Suit Demanding Pay Hike; Spitz and Bruno in 'Waldo'
War; Spitzer Says 'Judges Should
Know Better' Than to Sue for Raise; Eliot Gives Judges $Lap; Bruno: No New Bill to Boost NY
Judges' Pay; NY Judges Preparing Lawsuit
Over Pay; Governor Eliot Spitzer
Appoints Justice Lippman as Presiding Justice of Appellate Division,
First Department; NY Judges' Pay Suit Sent Up
the River; Pol Slaps Top Court on Ethics; For $1, Ex-NY Senator Bucks
for Judges' Raise; Judge Cross Endorsed by the Parties Poised to
Become Surrogate; Why I Won's Step Down by Raoul Felder; Spitzer Proposes Court Reform
Plan; Jackie Rips Book-Critic Governor; Gov to Raoul: Quit - or Else; Roasting Raoul Felder Chair of
the New York Judicial Commission; NY's Chief Judge Kaye Prepared to
Sue for Judicial Raises; More Money For Agency That
Oversees New York's Judges;NY Judges, Denied Pay Raise, Talk of
Strikes, Quitting; NY Judges Denied Pay Raises in Last-Minute Budget
Wrangling; Feed the Judicial Watchdog; NY Judges Advised Not to Link
Their Pay Dispute to Recusals;Kaye Seeks Ju$tice for Judges; Supreme Court Will Review the
Way New York Selects Judicial Candidates; Pay Raise for Judges Gets
Boost in Spitzer's First Budget; Chief Judge Kaye Urges "All-Out"
Campaign for Judicial Pay Raises; NY State Judges File Suit to
Force Salary Increase NY Judges Seek; Spitzer Calls for Court and
Election Reform; Pataki's Legacy: Judicial Appointments Were High on
Quality, Low on Diversity; Pay Hike in Otherwise
Modest Budget (But No Reform); NY Plans to Reform Local
Justice System; Chief Judge Kaye to Seek
Reappointment to Aid Transition, Push Reform; NY Lawmakers and Candidates
Polled on Judicial Selection Second Circuit Strikes Down Judicial
Convention System; Judges Will Not Spare Rods - Can Carry
Gun in Court; New State Bar Head Sees
Profession "Under Siege"; Bloomberg Names Some NYC
Judges to Short Terms; Primary Colors; City Bar Forms Judicial Selection Task Force; Judge Delays Bench Shakeup; The Rules Apply to You Too,
Judge; Politicians Sent Scrambling As Court Rules on N.Y. Judges;
Primaries Would Reduce Role of Bosses, Not of Money; Rebuking Party
Leaders, Court Halts System of Picking Judges; Pols Get Benched
Party Judge Picks Unconstitutional; Party's over for Rigged Judge
Elex; Bloomberg Criticizes Judicial
Election System at Swearing-in Ceremony News: NYU Center Seeks Damages
in Judge Selection Suit; Judicial Reform Held in
Contempt; Major Blumberg's New Mission; Mayor Says He Wants to Clean up New York's Courts; Order in
the Court; Bad Apples on Brooklyn Bench; Lawsuits Tossed
in
Surrogate's Recount; NY Law Judges Pressured
by Agency Bosses, Report Concludes State Courts Form Elite Guard;
The Faint Aroma of Performing Seals- The Judicial Nominating Commissions: Let the Voters Chose the
Judges; Bill to Alter Court Is
Assailed in Brooklyn Denied Pay Hike NY Judges Vow to Fight on; Injudicious Conduct Justice for Judges; Pataki Introduces Bill To NY Raise Judges' Pay; Pataki to Propose Pay Hike for
NY Judges; Pataki Calls
for Judicial Pay Hikes NY
Judges Lobby for Pay Raise; How Judges Hide From Justice; Tighten Rules for Those -Who Judge Judges; Judge Kimba Hit by Ethics
Attack; Problem-Solving Court, Judges Turn Therapist Judges; Salary Hikes;
Judge Tied
to 'Santa' - Federal Judge Alleged Conflict of Interest;
State Judge Selection Scrutinized; Data on Judges to be on the Internet; Bar Adopts
Proposal on Judges' Economic Conflicts; NY State Assembly Passes
Bill to
Create Judicial Selection Process; DA Pushes for
Appointment of Judges; Judicial Screening
Plan Draws Criticism; Senator
Seeks Legislation
on Ethics for Judicial Trips; NY's Judicial Convention
System Challenged; Changes Proposed for NY
Judicial Elections, N.Y. Bar Group Adopts Code
of Conduct; N.Y. Chief
Judge Decries
"Scorched Earth" Litigation; New York Judgeships;
Politically-Connected NY Lawyer in Line
for Judgeship; Promotion
of
Merit Retention; Suit Against Party Picking Judges; Talk of Judicial Reform in
the
New York Courts; Chief Judge Judith Kaye; Politics of Judicial
Appointments and Discipline of Judges
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03-10-10 |
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A Place to Bet Real Money
on Movies
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03-07-10 |
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Enron: Fraud Files: Enron's
Jeffrey Skilling Says We Shouldn't Expect Honest Execs; Judge Throws
Out Kenneth Lays Conviction; Senator Dianne Feinstein,
D-California Wants Lay's Conviction to Stand; She Calls on
Attorney General Gonzales to Appeal
Dismissal of Convictions of and Announces Intention to Introduce
Legislative Fix
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03-03-10 |
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Businessman Buys Ad to Criticize Judge for Presiding in Moot
Court on Transgender Rights |
02-25-09
from
12-10-08 |
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Madoff Ponzi Scheme:
Trustee, Ex-Madoff Operations Director Arrested by FBI; Madoff Investors Spar Over Payout Calculation; Two Ex-Madoff Employees Arrested As Part of Scheme; Madoff Victims File Suit Against SEC;
Two Ex-Madoff Employees Arrested As Part of Scheme; NY Partner, Firm Cash In for $15 Million in Madoff Scandal; Mrs. Bernie Madoff Sued Over Her "Life of Splendor"; Lawyers Chasing Madoff Money Ask for $15 Million in Fees; Miami Suit Aims to Get Back Fees Paid in Bernie Madoff Scandal; Victims Blast NY Lawyer in Charge of Liquidating Madoff Assets; Crabby Over Clawbacks: Madoff Trustee Goes After Investors Who
Cashed Out; Bilked by Madoff, Former Fried Frank Partner Joins Forces With
Milberg to Recoup Investors' Money; Suit Claims JPMorgan Aided
Madoff’s Fraud; Madoff Pleads and Is Led Off to Jail; Playing "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"?; The Talented Mr. Madoff ; Victim: Madoff Took 'All My Money' -
Goes After SEC; Layers and Layers of Players; Madoff Still Free on Bail;
Signs Seen of Plea Deal; DealBook Column In Madoff, a
Court Trusts ; Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi Scheme :
Bernard Madoff 'Fraud': Investor De La Villehuchet Found Dead;
Firm Built on Madoff Ties Faces Tough Questions ; Madoff Had
Perceived Edge in the Markets; Madoff's Rise Fueled by Leverage,
Controversial Fees; Even Winners May Lose Out With Madoff; Tax Deductions for Theft
Losses Could Help Some Investors; Madoff Investors Race to the Courthouse;
Madoff Scandal Shaking Real Estate Industry; Accounting Firms
Drawn Into Madoff Scandal; Wall Street Insiders and Fools’
Gold; In Fraud Case, Middlemen in Spotlight;
Bernard Madoff: Rbs and Man Latest to Reveal Exposure to $50bn
Alleged Fraud; Limited Options for Investors Burned by Madoff; AG Recuses
Himself from Madoff Fraud Probe; Merkin Gets Questions on Madoff; Fund Manager in Scandal Once Boasted about
Profits; Firm Touted Its Family Connections to Reassure Clients; More Work For Lawyers:
Europe's Banks Reveal $8n
California, Justice Takes a Day Off - The State's Chief Justice
Says Shutting Down the Courts One Day a Month Will Be a Burden
-- and a Test of Our Ability to Deal with Fiscal Crisis.bn of Exposure to Alleged Fraud; Lawyers, Lawyers Everywhere in
Wall Street's Latest Scandal; Madoff ‘Tragedy’ Said to Have Escaped Scrutiny by SEC;
Europe’s Banks Pay Price for Guarantees; Celebrated Wall Street
Trader Arrested over $50bn Con; Charity Caught Up in Wall Street Ponzi Scandal; Fund
Fraud Hits Big Names Madoff's Clients Included Mets Owner, GMAC
Chairman, Country-Club Recruits; How Bernie Madoff Made Smart
Folks Look Dumb; Madoff's Arrest in Billion-dollar Fraud Case
Shocks Palm Beach Investors; Ex-Nasdaq Chairman Arrested on Fraud Charge in NYC
Hedge Funds: Victims of Their Own Success (and Leverage)
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02-23-10 |
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Lewis Freeman
-Attorney-Trustee Charged With Wire Fraud for Looting Millions
Fromn Accounts of Clients; Top South Florida Money Sleuth Now Faces His Own Scandal-
Embezzlement of Receivership Accounts
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02-18-10
from
08-05-04
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Some Who Attempt To Take
The Law Into Their Own Hand- Frustrated Owner Bulldozes Home
Ahead Of Foreclosure; Lawyer Murdered in Front of Wife
and Child, Gunman Kills Himself; Attorney Taken Hostage By
Ex-Husband Released, Man Surrenders; Man in a Santa Suit Kills at
Least 8 at a Party ; Police: 'Santa' Shooting Kills at
Least 6 in LA; Atlanta Courthouse Shooter Gets
Life; Law Firm Bombed, Four Injured; Woman Forged Judges' Signatures
to Get Husband Out of Jail, Feds Say; Angry Ex-Husband Allegedly
Plotted to Kill N.Y. Divorce Judge; Controversial Judge Bows Out of
Courthouse Killings Trial After "New Yorker" Article; Prosecutor Aims to Boot Judge From
Trial on Courthouse Killings; Judge Blasts Colleague in Courthouse
Murder Case as a "Fool" and "Embarrassment"; Fulton County
Courthouse Shootinng Shock Atlanta; Police Kill Man Who Shot 5 at La. Law
Office - Angry Over Divorce; Man Shoots 5 at Louisiana Law Firm; Wheelchair-Bound Lawyer's Office
Torched by Client's Ex-Husband, Cops Say; Disgruntled Client Launches Toll Free
Number for Gripes About BigLaw Firm; Bagel Hubby: I Killed
My Wife- Cops Say Husband Confessed; Train to Arraign' in Wife Slay; Judges in
fear after E-Mails; Couple Guilty in Law Office Standoff,
Held Attorney Hostage; Gunman Felt Cheated over His
Invention; Gunman Angry Over Patent, Police Say; Lawyer Murdered, Disgruntled Client in
Custody; Man Gets Life
for Shooting
Lawyer Five Times in Videotaped Attack Bitter Divorce Behind Courthouse
Shooting; Man Kills
Ex -Wife, Then Shoots Self
at Courthouse Lawyer
Also Injured in Attack; Deadly
Encounter
Man Guns down
Son-in-law, Rams Police Cruiser, Then Kills Self; Judge 'Resigns' to
End Hostage Standoff, Entire District Bench Recused in Murder
for
Hire Case
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02-17-10 |
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Having Too Much Fun: Really
Loud Sex Leads to Really Long Prison Term |
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02-12-10 |
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American Bar
Association: Reid Criticizes Lawyers Group- Democratic Leader
Praises Judicial Nominee's 'Real World' Qualifications
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02-09-10 |
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Here Come the Lawyers
Toyota: Toyota Hit with Federal Stockholder, Consumer Claims;
Additional State Claim; Law Firms Rev Up Against Toyota Over Defect Reports |
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02-04-10 |
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Billionaire
Whistle-Blower Loses $730 Million Alleging Fraud |
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02-03-10 |
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WSJ Looks at Plaintiffs
Firms Who 'Pay to Play' |
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01-26-10 |
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You Promised Me, You
Said You Would, You Gotta Give In So I'll Be Good, Just Pay My
Darned Fee! |
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01-26-10 |
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NY Judge Blasts Wall
Street's "Corrupt" Culture in Sentencing Billion Dollar Subprime
Scammer |
01-26-10
from
05-18-03 |
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Divorce Trend and a Business:
Case of Bush Lawyer Who Attacked His Wife Shows New Trend in
Domestic Violence Cases; "Three Pony Rule" Invoked to Cut Michael Strahan's $18,000 a
Month Child Support Tab; Alec Baldwin: Not My Intention to
'Bury' Ex-wife Kim Basinger in New Book; Bill May Remove 'Loaded' Words Psychologists' Guidelines at
Risk; Judge Urges McGreeveys to Settle Now; Kooky Marital Colli$ion at Home; A House Divided-Judge Oks Wall for Splittin' Spouses; Cover Your Assets in Divorce; NY Judge Finds Seriously Ill Husband Can't Divorce Unsympathetic
Wife; Chief Judge Asks Legislature to Consider No-Fault Divorce; Newly Divorced Metro Lawyer Says Costly Litigation Futile;
Judge: Divorce Cases Skewed Toward Women; Well Known NY Lawyer Denied Withdrawal for Non Payment of Fees: Gross Injustice: Custody Battle Mom; Suddenly Splitsville; A New Push to Loosen New York Divorce Law; Official Says NY Courts "Long Overdue" for Restructuring Commission Hears the
Pain of Divorce; Lawyer's Internet Tie; Divorcées Demand Court's Ear; For
Arbiters in Custody Battles, Wide Power and Little Scrutiny;
Judge
Tells Mother Pawn Your Ring to Pay Experts in Child
Custody or You Will be in Contempt; Child Custody, Insider Club'
Gets Dibs On Splits-ville $poils High Paid Experts in Child
Cases
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01-11-09
from
05-11-03 |
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Judge Gerald
Garson: Ex-NY Judge Still a Convict; NY Judge-Turned-Convict Granted Early Parole; Garson $$ Duo Get Jail; Ex-hubby Who Bribed Divorce Judge Caged; Ex NY Judge
Makes Bid to Get Out of Prison; Cheaper to Keep Her: NY Man Who Bribed Judge in His
Divorce Headed to Prison; Garson out of Detox & into Prison; NY Lawyer Who Squealed on Judge Sentenced to Year Behind
Bars, Despite DA's Plea; Bribe-Taking Ex-Judge Given Extra Time to Detox Before
Jail; Garson Loses Bid to Delay Prison Term During Appeal; Sobbing Ex-judge Gets Can for Graft; Garson's Wife May Face Rap on Ethics; We'll Sue Jerk Judge; Former Judge Convicted of Bribery in Divorce Cases; Sitting Duck; Da Rips Garson on His 'Robbing
Room'; How Dare You! She Cries, amid
Garson's Bribe Trial; NY Lawyer Pursuing Toilet Question Asked to "Tone It
Down" at Ex-Judge's Bribery Trial; Nursing' a Grudge vs. Judge;
Wiretap Captures Garson's 'Fee' Speech; Call Accused Judge Old Yeller;
A 'Powerful' Lesson from
'Bribe' Judge; Garson Ate up Bribes, Pal Sez; 'Check Mated' Garson,
Pal's Tale of Lunch Tabs; Disbarred NY Lawyer Turned Warehouse
Worker Testifies Agaisnt Ex-Judge; Warned Ex-Judge Over Lawyer Pal, Aide Sez; Damning Tape Played at Judge Bribery Trial; B'klyn Judge's Bribery Trial Kicks Off; Shock Vid of
Bribery Judge: DA; Bribe Judge' Trial Today; Ex-NY Judge's Bribery Trial to Start Today; 'Bribery' Judge's Lawyer Calls it Quits; Ex NY Judge Facing Corruption Charges Refuses Plea Deal
Limiting Jail Time; Judge Charged With Taking Bribes Seeks Trial Delay
Due
to Cancer
Surgery;NY Judge's Bribery Trial Set, But DA Won't Be There
to
Prosecute After All; Charges vs. Garson Reinstated ; Can't Let That Stuff Get Out' How Judge Pleaded to
Keep His Affair Secret"; Man Accused of Bribing Judge Loses Share of Marital Home; Hynes Foe Snubbed Me: Undercover Man: NY Lawyer at Center of Bribery Scandal Agrees to Never Practice
Again; Panel Upholds Dismissal of Charges Against Embattled NY Judge; Felony Counts Against Judge; Bizman Pleads Guilty in Judge Bribe Scandal; CBS News 48 Hours; How Little B'klyn Schlub Became a Courtroom
Case 'Fixer': Garson 'Briber' Tried to
Be 'Big Shot'; Lawyer to Testify on Ex Parte Meeting With Garson; Divorcee Gets Custody; Judge Garson Will Not Stay on the Bench; Parties Get No Relief; Judicial Bribe
Trial The Court Clerk; Judge Garson Faces Trial; Judge Garson's
Wife Testified; Garson Video; Garson Sued: Plea Deal; Michel Garson Before Judicial Commission; Breached Fiduciary Duty, Judge
Says; Garson Toss Tapes; Bribe Judge Busted; Brooklyn New York
Judge Garson; Selling the Bench for Cigars, Exotic Trips and Cash; Garson Informer Complains Business Down
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01-06-10 |
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Libel Liable? Not
So Much: NY Lawyer's Statements in Letter Found Protected by
Privilege |
01-05-10
from
03-10-05
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Security for
Judges: Threats Against Federal Judges Jump Drastically; After Murders of Husband and Mother, Judge Regrets Not
Installing Home Security System; Judge in Gunfire Case Is an Unlikely Vendetta Target,
Friends Say; Threats Against Judges Increase; US Marshals Not Doing Enough to Protect Federal Judges; More Judges Packing Pistols in Courtrooms; Government Acts on Rising Threats Against Judges; Threats Up Against Federal Judges; Supreme Court Justice Reveals Death Threats; Jittery Judges Get 12m
for Security; Senate Panel Hears from Judge Lefkow; Judge Returns to Bench; Urged to Condemn Jurist Disrespect;
Courts Seek More
Protections for Judges; Judge Joan Lefkow: Pro Se Status Should Have No Relevance; Chief Judge
Wants More Security; Ross the Killer of Lefkow Was Tracked
in 1999; Suicide May Be
Killer of Chicago Federal Judge's Husband and Mother - Judge
Joan Humphrey Lefkow
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12-15-09 |
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Beware of Scam Artists |
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12-14-09 |
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Renowned Entertainment
Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion In Tax Scheme |
12-14-09
from
06-08-09 |
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New York Senate For Sale-
Firm That Got Lt. Gov. in Office Charges State $1M; Our Man in Albany: NY Judge Blocks Paterson's Pick as Lieutenant
Governor; Now What in Albany?; With Democrats Back in Control, First Bills
Are Passed ; Amid Impasse, Paterson Picks a Lieutenant Governor.
Finest Feeling Albany Freeze; Senate Inaction Is Hurting Many
Towns Across State; State Senate Convenes, Then Adjourns; Paterson Ratchets Up
Efforts to Get Senate to Break Stalemate; Albany Festers, and
Voters Don’t Clean House; Leaders Say Agreement Is Near to Unfreeze New York Senate [
Defying Paterson, New York Senators End Session; Dueling Sessions Cast Doubt on Any Action by State Senate; How
Does Albany Work? With Maps; N.Y. Senate Talks Fail Miserably,
Albany Democrats Lock Themselves in the Senate Chamber;
Chaos Ensues; Paterson to Senate: Untangle It Yourself or in Special Session; Groups Controlled by Golisano and Aide Investigated Over
Donations; Grand Judy Probing Embattled Sen. Espada; Albany Breakdown Gives
Politicians a Taste of Their Own Bitter Medicine; Senate Stays
Paralyzed; So Do Bills Big and Small; New York Politics and Power Struggle-
Albany Madness Creates an Opening for Profound Reform; From Halls of Montezuma
to Floors of Albany, Something Went Awry; Monserrate’s Flip Creates Tie in Senate; Monserrate Flips Back
to Democrats; Judge Gives State Senators Weekend to Negotiate; Attempt to Open New York Senate Falters; Albany Held Hostage; Gop Opens Senate Chamber; Latino Black Rivalry Helped Fuel
G.O.P.’s Takeover of State Senate; Feeling Slighted, Rich Patron
Led Albany Revolt; Albany’s Madhouse;
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12-04-09
from
04-14-03 |
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Judge Spargo:
Ex-NY Judge Is Disbarred, Faces Prison for Shaking Down Lawyers; Ex-NY Judge Loses Bid to Squelch His Indictment; Ex-NY Judge Indicted for Extorting Cash From Lawyers Appearing
Before Him; NY Judge Removed From Bench for Alleged Shakedown of Lawyers; State Panel Recommends Ouster of Judge in Albany; NY Judge's Bid to Upset
Conduct Rules Rejected; State Takes Look at Judge Cathryn Doyle, Which Stem From the Judge Spargo
Case; NY Judge Wins Round in Disciplinary Fight, Can Keep His Lawyer Secrecy to Cloak Judge's Hearing; Lawyer Can Drop
Judge Spargo as Client; Judge Pressured
Lawyers for Defense Money; US Supreme Court
May Revisit Judicial Campaigning in Spargo Case; Judge Spargo
Investigated; Fed Court Reject
Political Ban Case - Judge Spargo Chides [NY] Conduct Commission for 'Arrogance'-the enforcement troops of a petty tyrant."
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12-02-2009 |
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Florida
Grand Jury to Probe Corruption: Fla. Justices Approve
Corruption Investigation; Flrida
Supreme Court Justices Deny Florida Governor Crist Petition for
Grand Jury to Probe Public Corruption
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|
12-02-09 |
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Local Lawyer's
Suicide a Sign of the Desperate Times |
|
11-19-09 |
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Lawyer Cleared of
Laundering Drug Cash, Bribing Federal Prosecutor |
|
11-17-09 |
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"Witch Hunt" DA
Retires, Leaving Lurid Legacy and Shattered Families |
|
11-17-09 |
|
Young Lawyer
Fighting Free Pass for Some on Bar Exam Smacked Down by Judge -
Wisconsin Admits Lawyers Without Bar Exam |
|
11-15-09 |
|
The Lobbyist - In House,
Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists |
11-13-08
from
10-04-02
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Judges Who Reign
in Their Courts; Judge, DA Get Into Courthouse Shouting Match,
"Ruckus" Over Junior Prosecutor's Arrest; Defiant Local Lawyer Gets Year's Probation,
Fine, and Community ServiceLocal Judge Lashes Out at BigLaw Lawyer; Judge Spanked for Ordering Attorney to Be
Shackled; NY Judge Defends His Conduct in Rare Public
Hearing; Judge Removed Over Phone Flap to Appeal
Removal;
Local Lawyer Cited for Contempt Files Ethics Complaint Against Judge;Order in the Court: Pants-Dropping,
Coin-Flipping Incidents Get Judge Fired; Irate Judge Asks Jurors, "Anybody Else
Want to Mess With Me?," Faces Ethics Complaint; Controversial Local Judge Berated Lawyer and
Her Firm, Correspondence Shows; Judge 'Vindictive,' Judicial Panel Says;
Dickensian Discipline: Judge Reprimanded for Jailing Couple Over
Debt; Talking to Client in Court Costs Lawyer, $5,00,
1 Year Probation; Intemperate Judges Tarnish Justice System; Broward Judge Is Chided for `Ruse'; Reporter Held in Contempt for Using Phone Camera in Court; Threat' and Intimidation by he Judge; Final Appeal Rejected -- Judge Sloop Turns in
Key Lawyer Sues Judge Alleging False Imprisonment; Judge Who Jailed 11 for Tardiness Loses Job; (Cal) Judge Scolded for Insensitive Remarks; Lawyer is Out of Jail While
he Appeals Charge; Judge Orders Lawyer to Jail;
Fired Lawyer's Delayed Justice: Judge
Takes 2 Years to Issue 3-Minute Rejection; Judge Scolded for Numerous Ethics
Violations;
Pro Se Plaintiff Fined $5,000 Over Flood Of Ex Parte Faxes; NY Judge Censured for Threat of Jail; Albritton Admits to Code Violations;
Calif. Judges Censured in Connection With DUI Cases; Took Plea, but
Could Gone Free - Judge
Was Biased; In My Opinion [Seminole Florida] Judge Is
Either Quite Mad or Downright Mean; NY Judge's Lack of Remorse Supports Censure; Seminole Judge John Sloop's Trial to Start Next Week Who Had People Arrested for Going To the Wrong
Courtroom; Judge's Conduct Overturns Death Sentence Court Oks Judge's Punishment State Supreme Court
Calls County Judge's Conduct 'Unbecoming' No Recusal Needed for NY Judge Who Called
Defendant "Scum," "Predator": Judge Apologizes for Using Court Stationery to
Demand Millions Judge Removed For "Shocking Abuse Of Power"; He Wasn't in Contempt Judge Orders Teen Barred From Sex; Jury Goof Was Very Definition of Foolish Fashionista Judges Threaten Contempt Citations Public Defender Seeks to Remove Controversial Judge NY Barred by Judge from Court, Appellate Court
Rules- May Represent Himself in Divorce; Judge Faces Discipline for Humiliating Remarks to Women; Judge's Actions Prompt Concern Judge John Sloop Draws Criticism for His Courtroom Style
and Demeanor;
Judge Rodriguez Orders Attorney to Sit in the Corner (Previously
Reprimanded and Suspended);; Irate NY Judge Bans Lawyer and Firm
From His Court: Rancor Over Attorney's Handling Estate Leads to His Jailing and
Representing Client While Wearing Chains;
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11-10-09
from
12-09-08 |
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Attorney Marc S. Dreier's
Ponzi Scheme: NY Lawyer Admits Helping Disgraced Marc
Dreieer in Fraud; Famed Scam Artist; NY Lawyer Loses His License; Lawyer Gets 20 Years in $700 Million Fraud; Dreier Pleads Guilty to Fraud Scheme, Remains Free
on Bail; NY Lawyer Who Built 250-Lawyer Firm to Plead Guilty
to Stealing Hundreds of Millions Of Dollars; Lifestyles of the Rich and Indicted: What Loot Did
Dead NY Firm's Leader Leave?; Time for Bargainhunters to Pick at
Dead NY Firm's Treasures? Judge Sets Dreier Bail Conditions He Says Will
Minimize "Houdini" Like Flight RiskWalls Do Not a Prison Make (But They Help): Jailed
NY Partner Bids to Create "Private Prison"; Landlord Demands Dying NY Firm to Cough Up More
Than $2 Million in Back Rent;
Dreier Seeks to Unfreeze Assets To Pay Defense CostsWhose Stock in Trade is Falsified Securities:
Feds Bust Ex-Broker for Role in Disgraced NY Partner's $380
Million Scams; Lawyer Seen as Bold Enough to Cheat the Best of Investors; Rushing for the Exits, NY Lawyers Say Firm's Coffers Are Missing
Many Millions; NY
Name Partner Charged With $113 Million Fraud; Lawyers Bolt Firm;
Going South Out West: Will LA Lawyers Light Out From
Scandal-Rocked Firm? Lawyer Is Accused in Massive Hedge Fund
Fraud
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|
11-06-09 |
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Insider Information:
Another Associate Joins Ranks of Those Charged in Insider Trading
Scandal
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|
11-06-09
from
12-09-04
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Kerik and Giuliani and Bush:
The "Toxic" Avenger: In 'Astonishing' Move, Kerik Pleads
Guilty; NY Judge Jails Bernie Kerik, Calling Him
Selfish, Arrogant; Kerik's Troubles Follow Giuliani; Federal Grand Jury Indicts Kerik; Bush Knew about Kerik Past: Report; Go
Ahead, Scrutinize Me, Sez Rudy; Rudy: Sorry I Hyped Kerik, Admits Background Botch for Fed
Post; Testimony by Giuliani Indicates He Was Briefed on Kerik in
’00; Kerik Now a
Criminal; Perjury Indictments for Kerik Cronies; Kerik Comedown Mayor Has Ex-top Cop's Name Removed from Manhattan
Jail Get His Name off Tombs, Say City Prison Workers; But Holds Head High; Final-hour
Deal Would
Let Bernie Stay out of Jail, Avoid Indictment on Felony, Sez Source ; N.J. Case Adds
to Bernie's Problems: Complaint Sez City's Ex-top Cop & Mafia-linked Co. Traded Favors: Kerik Deal
Called a Possible Bribe Scheme; Probe Twist: Cash & Bern - Kerik Hit
up Pal for Apt. Kerik
Royalties Shocker - Gets 75g
for 9/11 Book; 2 Officers on
Security OT
the Day Kerik Wed; Kerik invited
to Inaugural; Kerik Probed; The Book Deal; Kerik Up for a
Fight; Credit Cards: Charge Racial
Profiling: Eye on Kerik
'Graft'; The
Pal Who Busted Bernie;
Legacy of Giuliani Years - Damage Suits Against City;Kerik
Kerik a
Disgrace; Kerik to
be
Investigated; Broke But Bought Two Apartments; Strain
Is Seem
in Giuliani
Ties With President; News
Finds Kerik In Cash Conflict Got Thousands, Didn't Report it; Kerik Pulls Out as Bush Nominee
for Homeland Security Job; Kerik
Bows out Nanny Flap Sinks Homeland Security Post; Security
Post Would Put Kerik Atop Field That Enriched Him
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|
10-23-09 |
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Survivor:
NYC? Local Law Firm Focus of Reality TV Show Pitch - New Reality
Series Called Legal Ease |
|
10-23-09 |
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With Plaintiffs and the G
Gunning for Them, In-Housers Feel the Heat - In-house Ethical
Dilemmas Revisited: What Would You Do Now? |
10-21-07
from
05-14-07
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Lawyers Launch Blog
on Judges in Broward County Florida: In Bizarre Case, Weepy
Ex-Judge and Rich 83-Year-Old Neighbor's Kin Trade Allegations
of Abuse; Lawyer May Lose License for Blog Entry on Broward
Judge; Slam Bad Judges (Broward County, Fl) Courts
Answering a Call for Help; Broward́s
No-Love Triangle. Judge Larry
Seidlin’s Friends Fall Out (The Crying Judge - Ann Smith Case); Michael Mayo: Defense Lawyer Who Has
Accused Two Broward County Judges
of Improprieties Leaves Town
with Bitter Taste of Justice; Judge Won't Hear Cases Involving
Broward State Attorney's Office Zack Faces Investigation over
Loan: Judge Cleared in 'Nhi' Incident; Allegations Against
Judges Bring Call for Investigation - Robert Zack
and Larry Seidlin (Ann Smith Judge) Top Judge Gets Caught in a Blogjam; Is the "Wheel" of Broward Justice
Coming Off: Broward Court Blog is Going Too Far, Critics Claim
Others Call It "Open Forum"
Embattled Judges Seek to Restore Public Confidence . . With Secret Meeting?
Judges'
Pick of Defenders out of Order? Broward Attorneys Are Raising
Questions about the Way Judges Decide Who Will Represent Some
Indigent Defendants.
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|
10-18-09 |
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Impostor Clients Land
Local Lawyers in Hot Water - Impostors Forged Signatures on
Mortgage Documents. |
|
10-15-09 |
|
High Court Justices Doubt
Lawyers Should Be Paid Extra for Winning |
|
10-14-09 |
|
In
California, Justice Takes a Day Off - The State's Chief Justice
Says Shutting Down the Courts One Day a Month Will Be a Burden
-- and a Test of Our Ability to Deal with Fiscal Crisis. |
|
10-13-09 |
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Another Firm Swept
Up in Suit Over Stanford Scheme New York Lawyer | October 6, 2009 |
|
10-13-09 |
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Firm Rebuked Over
"Frivolous" Attempt to Recoup Costs From Former Client |
|
10-08-09 |
|
Partner's Devotion
to Client Leads to Malpractice Suit Against Him, His Firm
|
10-08-09
from
08-08-06
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|
The Astor Case: Astor's
Son Found Guilty of Looting Estate; Lawyer Scam Elderly:
NY Judge Approves $2.2 Million in Astor Case Legal Fees; Attorney Inherits the Windfall; Astor Serial Sleaze; |
|
10-06-09 |
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Judge
Disciplined for Showing "Benevolence and Compassion" to Couple
Facing Foreclosure |
|
10-05-09 |
|
Sign O' the Times"
More Firms Suing Slow-Paying Clients |
|
10-05-09 |
|
Too Close for
Comfort: Law Prof, Spouse Sue Law School for Harassment |
|
10-01-09 |
|
Foreclosure Crisis
Brings Record Number of Complaints Against Lawyers |
|
09-18-09 |
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Identity Theft - Impostor
Clients Land Local Lawyers in Hot Water |
|
09-14-09 |
|
In California, Justice Takes a Day Off - The State's Chief Justice
Says Shutting down the Courts One Day a Month Will Be a Burden --
and a Test of Our Ability to Deal with Fiscal Crisis. |
09-14-09
from
01-18-08
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Lawyer Richard "Dickie"
Scruggs: Two Lawyers Sue Jailed Uber-Litigator Over Fees; Court Orders Dickie Scruggs to Ky. Federal Prison; Attorney Sentenced for Role in Judicial Bribery Scandal; Famous Lawyer Who Bribied Judge Faces Ex-Partner Looking
for $15 Million Over Fees; Firm Entitled to Fees, Punitives Because Opposing Counsel
Tried to Bribe Judge; Famed Lawyer's Son Pleads to Guilty Knowledge, Could Avoid
Prison; Judicial Watchdog Howling for Suspension of Judge Linked to Dickie Scruggs CaseMiss. Attorney Pleads in Bribery Case; NY Firm Bats .200 in Keeping Itself Out of Court on
Kickback Charges; The Legal
Trail in a Delta Drama;
Prosecutors: Judge Was Told That Ruling for Star Litigator Could Be Ticket to the Federal Bench
|
09-10-09
from
02-11-09
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Judges
Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., and Michael T. Conahan; Ex-Judges
Indicted For Racketeering; Ex-Judges, Pleas
Deals Rejected, Will Try Their Luck at Trial; Bad Judges Lose
Bid to Keep Plea Deal; Corrupt Judges'
Plea Deals Rejected; Judges Plead
Guilty in Payoffs for Jailing Youths; Pa Judges
Accused of Jailing Kids for Cash Plead Guilty in
Payoffs for Jailing
Youths
|
08-31-09
from
06-16-09
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The Fees are a Bankruptcy
Within Bankruptcy - BigLaw Bunch Bag $100 Million in Bankruptcy
Billings; The High Cost of Dying: Defunct Firm's
Lawyers Raise Billing Rates; Will They Take It in Minivans?: BigLaw Asks
for $19 Million in Chrysler Fees; BigLaw Bills GM $80 Million
for Road (to the Poorhouse) Service;
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|
08-20-09 |
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Judge's Death From
Courthouse Mold Ruled Not Worth More Than $1,000 Under Law |
|
08-17-09 |
|
Judges Sharing the Pain
of Paycuts |
|
08-17-09 |
|
Local Judge’s
Frustrated Outburst Creates Mistrial |
|
08-13-09 |
|
In
Anna Nicole Scandal, Calling Lawyer a Homosexual Isn't
Defamation Per Se, Judge Rules |
|
08-11-09 |
|
Lawyer Loses Lawsuit
over Costco Shrimp, Plans to Appeal |
|
08-11-09 |
|
Cooking the Books,
BigLaw Style - |
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08-11-09 |
|
When Kosher Isn't -
Challenging the State's Kosher Labeling Act |
|
08-04-09 |
|
NY BigLaw Partner
Wins Lion's Share of Partnership, Law License in Divorce |
|
07-28-09 |
|
NY Lawyer Faces
Trial on Charges He Tampered With Witnesses for Drug Kingpin
Client |
07-28-09
from
06-25-07 |
|
Judge Sues Cleaner for $65
Million Over Pants - The Biggest Loser: Fired Judge in $54
Million Pants Suit Loses Again, Can't Get Job Back; Help Me, Antonin Scalia! You're My Only
Hope!: Ex-Judge Loses Another Appeal on His $54 Million
Pantsuit; Maybe It's in His Jeans: Ex-Judge Loses
Again in $54 Million Quest for Pants; Targets of Judge's $54 Million Suit Over a
Pair of Pants Calling It Quits; Pantsed Judge Just Won't Quit, Looks
$82,000 Gift Horse Right in the Mouth; Loser of Pants, $54 Million Lawsuit Files
Appeal; First, Pants Man Loses Case. Next, His Job; Without Pants, the Law Is A Ass - Judge
Does Not Give Up; In Case of Missing Trousers, Aggrieved
Party Loses Again; Judge Lost Pants and Composure; The Judge With the $65 Million Pants Is No
Stranger to Goofy Filings New York Lawyer; Jin Nam Chung and Ki Chung are being sued
for $65 million by Roy Pearson, a District of Columbia judge,
over missing pants the Chungs said they have found.
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|
07-28-09 |
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Judge Orders Guardian to Watch
Over Octomom's Octobrood's Money |
07-22-09
|
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Federal Judges Get
Serious on Pushing Agenda (Including Raises) Through Congress |
|
07-16-09 |
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Law Firms Hit the
Jackpot in Casino Sale - Double Dipping for Fees |
|
07-15-09 |
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Turning the Tables -
Wendrow, with No Criminal History, Was Charged with Sexually
Abusing His Daughter and Jailed for 80 Days with No Bond His
Wife Was Also Charged. Four Months after They Were Arrested, the
Charges Were Dropped Due to a Lack of Evidence. Now, the Couple
Is Suing |
07-13-09
from
03-24-02 |
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Chadwick Jailed for 11 Years in
Bizarre Divorce Saga; After 14 Years in Jail for Not Paying
Ex-Wife Millions, Lawyer Is a Free Man; Home for the Holidays?: Lawyer Jailed for
Hiding Millions From Spouse Wants Out; Judge orders man jailed in divorce
case to pay ex-wife $4.2 mil; Millionaire
Held for Contempt for 10 Years Chadwick to
Tell his Story on
20/20; 7 Years
for Jailed Pauper
or Is it
Millionaire Schemer
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|
07-13-09 |
|
Mashed Potatoes:
Bad Lawyer's Bad Lawyering Begets Bilking Buddies of $2
Million- Lawyeer Ponzi Scheme
|
|
06-26-09 |
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He Done a Bad, Bad
Thing - Billing Client for Work that was Never Done |
|
06-15-09 |
|
Obama Open to Reining in
Medical Suits |
06-15-09
from
11-11-02
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|
Lawyers Held for
Remarks: NY BigLaw Partner Hit With $372,000 Sanction, Five Year
Suspension; Famous Lawyer Loses Fight for Right to Criticize
Judges; "Witch" Glitch: Attorney Argues His Blog Post About
Judge Was Protected Speech; Fieger Wins, and Campaign Cash Still Rules; Fieger Is
Cleared in Campaign Fund Case; Famous Lawyer, Partner on Trial Dodging Campaign
Finance Laws; Taxpayer Advocate Richard Fine Faces Disbarment: Bar Rules Should Protect Rights Not Judges; Attorney Who Called Judge an "Evil Unfair Witch" on Blog Fights Ethics Probe; Lawyer Found Guilty of Unprofessional
Conduct for Calling Judge a Bigot; Legal Aid Lawyer Admits Videotaping Female Co-Workers; Questioning Judge's Integrity Gets Local Lawyer
Reprimanded; Famous Lawyer, Sanctioned for Likening Judges to
Nazis and Jackasses Wins Appeal, But He's Not Out of the
Woodshed Yet; Bit Of Thin Skin Peeks Out Of The Robes; System Adverse to Criticism Letter from Bar President;
China Suspends 3-Year Sentence for Lawyer Who Posted Dissent
Online; Fieger Wins Right to Fight Judges; Top State Court Denies Fieger Request to Postpone
Reprimand; Opinion on Fieger Discipline the First Amendment
Issue; Lawyer Disciplined for Comparing Judges to Nazis [
Geoffrey Fieger];
Supreme Court Places Attorney on Probation; Lawyer's Insults of
Judges Escalate Into Speech Case; Ethical Violations; Lawyer's
Criticism of Judge on "Secure" Internet Site Lands Him in
Ethical Thicket Associate Can't Be Fired for Ethics Rules;
Orlando Our Debate: Do Lawyers Have Free Speech? The Geoffrey Fieger Case; Lawyer fights Florida Bar Inquiry; Orlando Attorney
Sues Florida Bar Again; Lawyer Loses Right to Practice in Miss. for Using "Disrespectful Language in Motion; Lawyer's "Vile,
Revolting" Remarks About Judges Protected Speech (Mich);
Sanctioned Lawyer Continues Fight NY; No First Amendment
Protection For Lawyer Rant - Lawyer Cannot Criticize Judge;
Footnote Gets Lawyer Suspended;
|
06-13-09
from
06-11-09
|
|
Convict Stages Son’s Bar
Mitzvah in NYC Jail; Bloomberg: Jail Bar
Mitzvah Should 'Not Have Taken Place' |
06-08-09
from
10-01-06
|
|
Campaign
Cash in Judicial Elections and Other Judicial Contributions:
Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling on Judicial Recusal; ABA President Calls Expensive Judicial Races Obscene; Too Generous $3 Million Campaign Contribution and Favorable
Ruling; Special Interest Lobbies Pour Cash Into Judicial Races;
Prominent Los Angeles Attorney Indicted in Campaign Contribution
Case; Judicial Races Now Rife With Politics; Law
Firm's Discount on Fees for Embattled Judge Triggers Criminal
Investigation; Another Firms Contribution to Same Judge Leads to
Recusal Demand; Big Law Ponies Up Big Bucks to
Pay Judge's Legal Bills; Legally Blind; Talking Points - Judges for
Sale; Nevada Judges Can Keep Raising
Funds; Special Interest Cash Hits a
Wall in Judicial Elections; Special Interest Cash Hits all in
Judicial Elections; Public Thinks; The High Cost Of
Electioneering; Campaign Cash Sways Judges; Big Money Erodes Judges' Credibility; In Ohio
Campaign Cash Mirrors a High Court’s Rulings
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|
05-28-09 |
|
What BigLaw Wants in New
Recruits - Run Law Office as a Business |
|
05-21-09 |
|
Judiciary Committee to
Hold Hearings on Disciplinary Bodies |
|
05-21-09 |
|
Receiver Named to
Pay Lawyer Fees in a pending NY Divorce - Taking Over Real
Estate Business |
05-19-09
from
06-04-03 |
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B'klyn New York
Judgeships and Norman: NY Post Subpoenas Nine Judges in Libel
Case Brought by Another NY Judge; NY Judge Who Reportedly Testified on Sale
of Judgeships Resigns, Wins Disability Pay; NY Jurist Who Reportedly Testified on
Sale of Judgeships Before Grand Jury Takes Leave; Clarence Says Jail & Farewell; Norman Gets a Jail Break; 'King' of the
Clink - Norman Is Jail-Bound; Disgraced Clarence Norman Guilty of Grand
Larceny; Norman in Threat: Aide; Black Judge
Dissed; B'klyn Boss
Greed's Elex 'Shakedown'; It was Papy or Be 'Dumped' Norman Jury
Hears; Judge With a Grudge; How to Buy a Gavel; 7 Judges Face Quiz at 'Boss' Trial; Anti-corrupt Gov Hiring Pol Tied to
Norman? DA; Norman Sold Judgeship for 50g -& 6g in Stamps; Norman Pal Deal; Disgraced Norman in Blame Game; Shelly May Rat on Norman; Norman Due Third Trial; 2 to 6 Years for Norman; Former Brooklyn Democratic Boss
Sentenced to Prison; Norman Will Stay Silent to the End Squeeze lay on Norman; Norman Guilty of Stealing 2nd
Conviction for Ex-Pol; 'Houdini' Norman 'Just Stupid'; Norman Case May Go
to Jury Today;
Norman Defense Is $Haky Former Brooklyn Party Leader in
Rematch With Prosecutor; The 5g Was My Money; Norman Claims Norman
Will Take the Stand Disgraced Pol's Trial Chaos; Norman May Testify in Check Fraud Norman's Successor Facing Own
Scandal; Norman Seeks Mistrial as Pol Takes 5th Treasurer Testifies in Trial: Norman
Never Told MeShowing Bad Judgement; Norman Urged to
Sing: Bid
to Bar Norman Pal; Disgraced Judge Wore Wire in Plot;
2 New Judges Eyed in Chamber Plot$; 'Pay 50g' - and Be a Judge Democratic Leader's Demise Followed His
Organization's Slide; Norman May Get Itch to Snitch; Dem Boss
in
Trouble & Control; Dems Look Ahead Hopeful Eyes on Top Spot; Assemblyman Norman Convicted of Financial Wrongdoing Norman to Testify at Graft Trial Norman's Voice Mail;
Da Raps Norman's Call to Witness; Pol in
Phone Threat; On Election Eve, Brooklyn Party Leader Is on
Trial; War
of Words Yet to Start in Norman Trial Da Probe of Dem's
Past Ok'd; NY Prosecutor's Illness May Stall
Politico's TrialCourt Oks Theft Charge Against Norman
Norman Ready
to Go
to Trial; Former NY Judge to Represent Politician
in Corruption Trial; Indicted Brooklyn Politician Takes Aim at
His Accuser; Plea Deal Could Oust Norman Without Jail; Scrutiny of Assemblyman Turns to
Political Club's Bills; B'klyn Dem Big Must
Face Extort Trial; Nix Judgeship for Sale
Probe; Norman Trial Put Off
Again; Lawyers Seek Dismissal of
Charges Against Norman; Judge Sustain Top
Indictment Against Norman; Norman Faces New Rap;
Norman Gets Break from
Judge; Down to Three
Judges; Norman Claims Indictment
Tainted; Norman Asks Judge to
Toss
out Charges Against Him; Judge Should
be Renominated; B'klyn Dem
Panel Nixes Gop Judge; Panel
not Doing Job; The Politically
Handpicked Judges for Civil Court Judges:
Party
Machines, Rubber Stamps
Judicial Appointments in Brooklyn New York -Did Brooklyn, Judge Buy
His Seat- Judicial Bench
Bought and
Sold
for a Price - Lawyer Quits in Probe
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|
05-14-09 |
|
"Slumdog" Child Star's
Mumbai Shanty Home Torn Down
|
|
05-03-09 |
|
Associate Says He Was
Fired for Refusing to Destroy Evidence of Kiddie Porn on Client's
Computer |
05-02-09
from
04-30-09
|
|
What Drove Laid-Off
Lawyer-Suicide's Battle for Success?; Laid-Off Lawyer From
Bethesda Fatally Shoots Self; Reportedly
Laid-Off Lawyer is an Apparent Suicide at Kilpatrick Stockton |
|
04-29-09 |
|
Misdemeanor
Courts Are a Waste of Time and Money. |
|
04-28-09 |
|
Best Lawyers Peer Into
Their Crystal Ball, See Firms and Schools Need to Retool, Some
Will Have to Go Out of Business |
|
04-24-09 |
|
Lawyer Used Elder
Law Practice to Snare Ponzi Victims |
04-24-09
from
01-01-05 |
|
Campaign
Contributions by Lawyers: High-Profile Attorney Fights Charges
He Illegally Funneled Cash to Presidential Campaign's Coffers; NY Attorneys Dig Deep to Help Pay for Obama's Inauguration; Obama Beats Out McCain in BigLaw
Campaign Contributions; Clinton Beat Obama Raising
Cash From NY Lawyers Anyway; Obama Passes Clinton in Netting BigLaw
Cash - Obama, for First Time, Tops Clinton
in Political Contributions from Lawyers; BigLaw Firms Pony Up More Donations to
Obama, McCain; With Edwards Out, Many Trial Lawyers
Look to Obama; The GCs' Choice: Obama; BigLaw Firms Fill Up Campaign Coffers
at Record Pace; Edwards Leads Pack in Locking Up
Lawyers' Contribution; Lawyers Lead in Campaign
Contributions, Edwards the Favored Recipient; The
Politically Nouveau Riche - Despite New Rules Politically Active
Law Firms Filled
Campaign Coffers at an Unprecedented Rate
|
|
04-23-09 |
|
New York Lawyer
Kills Family- Cops: Detectives Quickly Learned of William
Parente's Financial Woes; Family Slay Was 'Ponzi
' Massacre; by New York Lawyer; Police Reveal How
NY Lawyer Killed Wife, Daughters, Self In Hotel room; FBI
Investigating Finances |
|
04-21-09 |
|
U.S. Sen. Helps
Hubby Get Big Govt. Deal California Senator Dianne Feinstein
Sponsored a Law to Route $25 Billion to Fdic That Awarded Her
Husband’s Firms a Lucrative Contract to Sell Foreclosed
Properties at Compensation Rates Higher than Industry Norms.
|
|
04-17-09 |
|
Judge Accuses Coughlin
Stoia of 'Shocking Conflict of Interest,' but How About Other
Firms? |
|
04-16-09 |
|
NY BigLaw Partner
and Ex-Political Boss Charged With Pocketing Fees for Favors |
|
04-15-09 |
|
Advocates Crossed
the Line into Zealotry Our Opinion: in Stand Against
Prosecutors, Judge Gold Stands up for Justice |
|
04-15-09 |
|
The Lehman Legal
Bill: $84 Million and Counting |
|
04-07-09 |
|
Local Law Schools
Chasing Federal Bailout Bucks |
|
04-06-09 |
|
Calif. Court Perks All
Over the Map |
|
03-29-09 |
|
Illinois
Governor Blagojevich -Fed Indictment Alleges New Heights of
Corruption; Illinois Court Rejects Attempt to Remove
Governor; a Lawyer: llinois Lawmaker Launches
Blagojevich Impeachment; Obama's Relationship With Emil Jones--I; It's, Uh,
Complicated; Blagojevich Arrested on Corruption Charges; Illinois
Governor Arrested for Plotting to Sell Off Obama's Senate Seat;
Rezko Tie Links Obama and Blagojevich: Top 10 Stupidest Moves By
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
|
|
03-18-09 |
|
As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping Up |
|
03-12-09 |
|
A Key Legal Right at Risk;
The Right to Counsel |
|
03-10-09 |
|
Two BigLaw Firms
Sued Over Fees They Collected From Alleged Ponzi Scammer |
|
03-06-09 |
|
Breaking Up? In
This Economy? No Shortage of Legal Work in this Tough Economy in
the Matrimonial Field, The Problem Is Getting Paid.
|
|
02-08-09 |
|
You Try to Live on 500K in
This Town - On the Lifestyle Executives Have Become Accustomed
to |
02-04-09
from
11-19-08
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Attorney William Abramson
Who Ran Against Incumbent Judge and Won Suspened; Supreme Court Rules
Suspended PBC Lawyer Abramson Can't Be Judge; Florida Supreme
Court Should Reject Letting Suspended Lawyer Be a Judge; Can
Abramson be a Judge? Supreme Court must Decide; Incoming Palm
Beach Circuit Judge Suspended over 2006 Incident; Incoming Palm
Beach County Circuit Court Judge William Abramson Has Been
Stripped of His License to Practice Law for 91 Days; Appeals
Court Crushes Wennet's Chance for Fifth Term as Circuit Judge;
Stripped of Law License, Abramson Vows to Serve as Judge
Starting Jan. 6; Wennet Appeal Unappealing; I
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02-04-09 |
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Lawyer Can't
Reduce Alimony, Support Payments by Citing Dwindling Practice |
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02-04-09 |
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New Attorney
General Eric Holder Promises To Restore Justice Department's
Reputation |
01-26-09
from
12-08-08
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Lawyers
Targeted With Scams: Pros and Cons: Ponzi Scheme Targets Law Firms;
Lawyers Warned to Be Wary of "Client" E-Mail Scams; |
01-26-09
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Lawyers' Indictment in
Huge Ponzi Scheme Shocks Legal Circles - Both Lawyers Are
Charged with Money Laundering and Wire Fraud Conspiracy. Also
Charged: Executives of Defunct Mutual Benefits Company |
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01-13-09 |
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AP: Clinton Acted on
Concerns of Husband's Donors |
01-08-09
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Attorney Disbarred
for Failing to Pay Sanctions Sues Judge Who Sanctioned Him |
01-07-09
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Custody Case Tip:
Don't Bug Kid's Teddy Bear |
12-30-08
from
04-25-06
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Mediation: Solos Carve
Out Niche Mediating in Same-Sex Breakups; N.Y. Court
Establishes First Statewide Guidelines for Mediators, Neutral
Evaluators; Study Shows
Early Litigation Settlements Save Businesses Money;Our View:
Less Painful Split; Mediators
Help Parties Avoid Trial; Male-Female
NY Duo Take Unique Approach to Divorce
Mediation
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12-29-08
from
06-22-04 |
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Matters of Interest
in the
US Supreme Federal Judges Call for Higher Pay; Court: Supreme Court Rules Guantanamo Prisoners Have
Right to Sue in U.S. Courts; Bill May Remove 'Loaded' Words Psychologists'
Guidelines at Risk; Scalia Speaks Out in "60 Minutes" Interview; Justices Make It Tougher to Sue Medical Device
Makers; Supreme Court Says 401(k) Participants Can Sue ; Justices End 96Year-Justice Souter Considered
Resigning After Bush v. Gore, New Book Says; Old Ban on Price Floors; Supreme Court Oks Abortion Procedure Ban; Kennedy Recuses From Antitrust Case Involving
Son's Company; Case of the Dwindling Docket Mystifies the Supreme
Court ; Alito Urges Judges to Show Restraint; Abortion Cases Draw Throngs to High Court; Half of New Supreme Court Cases Term Touch on
Business;
In Loss for Bush, Supreme Court Blocks War-Crimes
Trials at Guantanamo; Courtroom Camera Bill Stirs Debate; Ginsburg Calls
Proposed Congressional Watchdog for Courts "Scary"; Roberts' Annual Report Focuses
on Threats to Judicial
Independence O'Connor Not Moving Quietly Toward Retirement Justice Breyer Says He's Worried About Political
Criticism; What Happens to O'Connor's Clerks? Major Supreme Court Rulings; Disorder in the
Court; Court Splits on Commandment Cases; Cities May Seize Homes for Private Developers; The Right Way to Judge the
Courts Court Rules Against Pot for Sick People: Court
Expends Scope of Disabilities Law; Fluent in Tea Leaves: Are Supreme Court Decisions Predictable from Oral Argument Prima Donnas in Robes; Favors Compromise Integrity
of Court; Rehnquist Resumes His Call for Judicial Independence; Coming to Terms With Supreme Court Tenure; Thomas'
Acceptance of Gifts Tops Justices; Rift Between Congress and the Courts Growing; An Aging Court; Revelations by Law Clerks; Justice Sandra O'Connor; The Year Rehnquist May
Have Lost
His Court; Supreme Court - O'Connor's Power Examined - Add Justices
to End Court
of 1; Case
of the Gradually Disappearing Supreme Court -9th Circuit Dominates; Could the Battles over Supreme Court Nominations
Become So Acrimonious That it
Becomes Impossible for
Anyone to Win Senate Confirmation?
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12-25-08 |
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Federal Cases of Stock
Fraud Drop Sharply |
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12-18-08 |
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As Economy Worsens,
More Lawyers Being Targeted in Malpractice Suits |
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12-16-08 |
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Federal Judge Beats the
Rap by the Skin of His Teeth |
12-11-08
from
03-27-07 |
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The Holocaust Restitution
Money: NY Laywer Famed for Holocaust Suits Disbarred for Not
Paying Sanctions, Fees; Dispute Over NY Professor's $3 Million Holocaust Fee
Continue; A Disputed Fee; NYU Law Professor Burt Neuborne Gets His Due
- For Forcing Swiss Banks to Repay Their Debts to Holocaust
Survivors, NYU Law Professor Burt Neuborne Was Hailed as a Hero
Then He Submitted his Bill $4,760.000.
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12-08-08 |
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Eric Holder Jr. -
Will BigLaw Partner Tapped for US Attorney General Be Visited by
Ghosts of Clients Past? |
|
11-28-08 |
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More Are Serving as Their
Own Lawyer - Judge: It's Not Just Poor People |
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11-21-08 |
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Lawyers' Coke Deal Scores
$31.5 Million in Fees |
|
11-17-08 |
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Thinking You Can Sue
a Dead Lawyer Was One on NY Judge's Many Mistakes, Panel Says
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11-07-08
from
11-21-06
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Business of Creating
Lawsuits: The Campaigns Are Over, and So Are the Ads - But Not the
Lawsuits; Is Being a Guy a Disability?: NY BigLaw Partner Says It's on
Its Way; The Integrity of Lawsuits; Law Firm Accused of Shaking Down Shoppers; ADA Lawsuits Costly - Some Businesses Say They Often Are
Unnecessary; Environmental Bounty Hunters, on Trail of Cash in California
Official’s Sights; Attorneys
Making Money Filing 'Drive by Lawsuits' Multiple Suits
on Violations on Disability Act
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11-06-08
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NY GOP Appellate Judges
Swamped In Democratic Vote Surge - Republican New York Supreme
Court Justices of the Appellate Division Lose Judicial Bench in
Democratic Run on the Polls Not Seen in More than Four Decades
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11-05-08
from
09-16-08
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Litigation Sources in
the Meltdown: Treasury Taps Two Law Firms to Execute $700
Billion Bailout; Eyeing Big Bucks in New Regulations, BigLaw
Goes to Washington; In Market Mess, Are Law Firms Vultures or
Saviors? And What's Up With Rudy?; Which Litigators Will
Be Left Out in the Cold in Wall St.'s Nuclear Winter?
Plenty of Litigation to Keep the Lawyers Busy
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10-31-08 |
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NY Judge's
Remarks Cause Stir Over Goal of Pro Bono Work |
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10-31-08 |
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America Looks Beyond the Bush Warriors -
Precipitous Fall
in America's Reputation Around the World as Seen in Europe |
11-26-08
from
12-26-03
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Pressure to Cut Costs Drives More Work to India; Outsourcing A-Okay, Says ABA; Outsourcing of Legal
Work; Count Skips Millions In Unemployment: Global Outsourcing of Jobs
by IBM |
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10-24-08 |
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Financial Crisis: Hedge
Fund Turmoil Is Hitting Millions of Savers, Experts Say
Millions of Savers Have Been Warned Their Pensions and
Investments Will Be Hit Badly by the Turmoil Now Engulfing the
Hedge Fund Industry
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10-25-08
from
09-14-08
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The U.S. Is Widely
Criticized in the Financial Crisis; For Whom the Bailout Tolls; The Broken Pact With the People;
America Where It Pays to Fail; The End of Arrogance - America Loses
Its Dominant Economic Role; US Set to Lose Financial S-power
Status;
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10-10-08
from
10-09-08 |
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Former In-House Lawyer
Could Face Life in Prison Over Scam With AIG Duane Reade's
Former Execs Charged With Securities Fraud Itching to Prosecute?:
White-Collar Defenders Predict a Rash Of Wall St. Indictments |
10-10-08
from
04-09-08
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Donald Trump Loses
Latest Round in Feud With NY Firm; Trump Sues NY Firm for
Treating Him Like a "Cash Cow" |
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09-20-08 |
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Europeans on
Left and Right Ridicule U.S. Money Meltdown |
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09-20-08 |
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For Some, Nursing
Homes Are a Prison |
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09-12-08 |
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Rosenberg Transcripts Raise
Possibility Of Perjury |
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09-11-08 |
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NY Pol Accused of Taking
$500,000 in Payoffs: |
09-10-08
from
11-22-06
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Jack
Abramoff: Feds: While Corrupting Congress and Cheating Clients,
Abramoff Stiffed His BigLaw Firm; Jack AbramoffGets Four Years in Corruption Scandal; Candidate
Turned to Abramoff for Help Landing Judicial Nomination |
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09-08-08 |
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Lawyers Entitled to
Trial on Disputed Isssues: Sickened" Local Judge Reversed
in
Spat Between Local
Ex-Law Partners |
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08-29-08 |
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Ex-Judge's Defense Team Accuses Feds of Misconduct |
08-29-08
from
05-24-08 |
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Clinton
Impeachment Prosecutor Appointed to Florida Supreme Court; NY
Firm Grabs State Supreme Court Justice to Lead New Practice; Young Judge
Likely to Spark Firms Into Bidding War as He Leaves Bench -
Florida Supreme Court Justice Raoul G. Cantero III in Talks With
Some Lawfirms; Justice Kenneth Bell leaving Fla. Supreme Court;
Florida High Court in Crist's Hands
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08-28-08
from
05-09-08 |
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NY Lawyers Ordered to
Return $700,000 in Pension Payouts; Pension Probe Will Snare
"Hundreds" of NY Attorneys, Cuomo Predicts
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08-26-08 |
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Law Firms
Trawling for Business at Dems' Convention |
08-21-08
from
11-02-06 |
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Judge's Defamation Suit
Against News Media: Judge Who Won $3.4 Million After Being
Libeled by Reporter Gives Up Bench; NY Judge Sues Manhattan Attorney, Daily News
for $10 Million;: Defamation Suit Settled; Kane County Paper to
Publish Apology to Illinois Chief Justice; Judge Wins $7 Million in Libel Trial; Judge's Lawsuit Heading for Jury -Writer, Chief Justice Fight for
Reputations; Writer Defends Columns in
Justice Defamation Case - by Illinois Supreme Court Chief
Justice Robert Thomas - Defamation Trial of Judge V. Newspaper
Writer Starts
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08-15-08
from
11-26-02 |
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The Battle of Tort Litigation: Call for Ag Reform Growing; To the Trenches: The Tort War Is
Raging On; Consumer Class Actions Usurping Personal Injury
Claims; Beyond the Ambulance Lawyers Looking to Broaden Their
Litigation Practices:
Mass Torts Litigation in the
1990s Has Dried Up; Legal and Political Forces Have Slowed Mass
Torts Litigation-Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures;
NY's State of Mind on Litigation Balmier, Survey Says;
Businesses Seek
Protection on Legal Front; Bill to Limit Class Action: President
Signs Tort Reform Law; Congress OK's Law; Moving in Senate; Pres. Bush Plan to
Limit Class Action is Moving Fast; Business Demands Tort
Reform in Fl.; Lawyers May Ask Clients
to Waive New Amendment Rights; Tort Reform; GOP Gains Could Revive Class Action Reform; Two Sides Ready for
Malpractice Fights: Who Scored Better in the Election: Doctors
or Lawyers? Medical Malpractice
Amendments Pass in Florida, Doctors and Lawyers Battle in Four States for
Tort Reform; Time
for Tort Reform
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08-14-08 |
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To Clean up Corrupt
Surrogate Courts, Wake up and Vote |
|
08-14-08 |
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Court Allows
Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Justice - Teammate of Jurist's Son
Alleges Abuse of Power in Head-butt Case
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08-11-08 |
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YouTube Shows Judicial
Candidate Supporting Rogue Political Group |
08-08-08
from
03-25-08 |
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Laundering Charges Trouble
Attorneys - Government Does a 180 in Prosecution of Prominent
Attorney; Money-Laundering Prosecution Worries Lawyers; Attorney Fights Back Against Money-Laundering Charge in
Drug Kingpin's Case; Attorney Kuehne Conducted Due Diligence Check on Fees
that Came from Drug Money That Was a Sting Set Up by the FBI
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08-02-08 |
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Florida Judge Cliff
Barnes of St. Lucie County Faces Reprimand, Will Stay on Bench |
|
08-01-08 |
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The Rise of "Desk Rage"
Sign of Difficult Times |
08-01-08
from
09-01-06
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Judicial
Elections: High-profile Rulings
Put Judge in Spotlight - A Challenger for Judge; Special Report:
Judicial Elections in Miami-Dade, Reservations
about the
Campaign System Name Game
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07-28-08
from
06-04-08 |
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Attorneys' Fees and
Salaries: Judge to Dismiss McAfee Overbilling Suit Against
Wilmer Cutler; Legal Fee Bylaws May Need Change; V Slams Attorneys
on Salaries, Overlawyering
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07-24-08
from
08-27-07 |
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An Offer You Can't
Refuse Russia's Very Hostile Takeovers - An Investment Gets Trapped
in Kremlin’s Vise; Russia's Raiders: Companies
Are Paying Public Officials to Raid the Offices of Business Rivals
and Subject Them to Criminal Investigations Ruthless Businessmen Are
Employing Armed Thugs to
Intimidate Their Rivals and Force Them to Hand Over Their Companies
-- Backed by Corrupt Policemen and Courts.
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07-23-08 |
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Learn From Past
Defeats, But Don't Tell Opposing Counsel or Judges About 'Em |
|
07-20-08 |
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Woman Says Long Legal Fight
Has Driven Her to Distraction-Meryl Lanson- Legal Abuse Syndrome |
07-18-08
from
12-17-03 |
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U.S. Criminal
Justice: Report Cites Beatings, Lax Medical Care in Prison: US Prison Population Dwarf That of Other Nations; Seven
Million in U.S. Jails, on Probation or Parole; Justice Till Denied;
ABA Calls for End to
Mandatory Minimum Prison Terms; Study Suspects
Thousands Of False Convictions; Trading in Lies,
Some Informers Build
Cases for
Prosecutors; Many Falsely Imprisoned by Prosecutors; Nationwide
Study on Prosecutorial Misconduct; Prosecutors
Not Penalized
|
07-18-08
from
05-04-07
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Judge Michael Allen is
Charged By Florida JQC for his opinion of another judge;
Findings, Conclusions and Recommendations of the Hearing Panel,
Judicial Qualifications Commission; Prosecution Rests in Trial of 1st District Court of Appeal Judge
Michael AllenTrial of Judge Allen Likely to Be Intense; Fla. Appeals Judge Faces New Charges Over Critique of Fellow
Jurist in Opinion; Judgment Lacking in Ethics Case;
Guns, Sex, Corruption: a Hearing in the Us Exposes a Raft of
Jaw-dropping Tales of Judicial Misbehavior; Perjury Charge Looming for District Judge - Judge Michael E.
Allen Is Accused of Lying about His Feelings Toward a Fellow
Judge; Misdeeds of Other Judges off Limits? - A Panel Wants to
Block Some Testimony in the Trial of a Judge Accused of
Unbecoming Conduct; Lies and Disorder
in the Court - Sworn Statements of Judges Show a Bizarre Conflict
Playing out Behind the Scenes - Rarely Do Outsiders Get an
Inside Peek at How Judges Work Together - The Judicial
Qualification Commission is Moving Not To Allow the Depositions
Into Evidence |
|
07-16-08 |
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To Save Expenses, The
Home Office: No Offices, No Associates: The Next Big Thing in
Lawyering?
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07-16-08 |
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BigLaw
Breaks Its Simple Rule: Don't Sue Banks
|
|
07-15-08 |
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Partner's Legal Work for
Judge Gets His Firm Dropped From Case |
07-15-08
from
07-01-05
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Army Service; Casualties of
War; Injured Iraq
War Veterans Sue VA Head; Reservist
Fighting His Fifth War Call-up; Big Law Firms
Unite in Pro Bono Effort for Wounded Soldiers; School Is Out For Gi -
Promised college education for enlisting,
to finish college have
to re-enlist: Costs of Care for Veterans: High and Rising;
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|
07-14-08 |
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When it Comes to
Fees Nothing is Written in Stone: NY Lawyer Wins Bid to Sue
Client Over Fees After "Binding" Arbitration Award
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|
07-11-07 |
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Crunch the Numbers:
Clients' Demands for Diversity at BigLaw Enter New Phase
Wal-Mart's Entourage of Law Firms: BigLaw Firm's New Digs Will
Be High-Tech, "Associate Friendly";
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|
06-17-08 |
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NY Lawyer's
Defamation Claims Against Federal Judges Dismissed |
06-13-08
from
06-11-08 |
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9th Circuit's Chief
Judge Posted Sexually Explicit Materials on His Website - Judge
Declares Mistrial in La Obscenity Case; 9th Circuit Chief Judge
Initiates [Special] Internal Review of Explicit Website Posts; Alex Kozinski, Who Is Presiding over an Obscenity Trial in L.A,
Admits He Posted Sexually Explicit Photos and Videos. He Says He
Didn't Think the Public Could See the Site, Which Is Now Blocked
-
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06-10-08 |
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Calif. Bar Considers
Attorney Misconduct Web Posts;
|
06-05-08
from
03-21-07
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Lawyer, Jack Thompson:
Enhanced Disbarment Recommended due to Lawyer's Pattern of
Conduct; Sparring With
Judges and Bar Over Gay Rights and Porn, Sanctioned |
|
06-04-08 |
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Should an
Appellate Judge Join in a Decision He Disagrees With to Diminish
its Impact? |
|
06-03-08 |
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New Contracts Reflect
Continued Presence in Iraq - US to Protect Iraq Courts |
|
06-03-08 |
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Arbitration - Banks vs.
Consumers (Guess Who Wins) |
06-03-08
from
11-02-07
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Lawschools: Too
Many Lawyer Factories and More on the Way; The Cyber Chase:
Online Law Schools Wins Some Respect |
|
06-03-08 |
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Gossip Girls (and Boys):
Blogs Bedeviling BigLaw - Law Gossip Blogs - such as
Above the Law, Greedy Associates, AutoAdmit
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05-27-08 |
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Identical Twins
Separated at Birth, United in Lawsuit |
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05-25-08 |
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Are Banks a Safe Place for Your Valuables?
Not-safe-deposit Boxes:
States Seize Citizens' Property to Balance Their Budgets
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|
05-17-08 |
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Democracy in America Is a
Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck -
an excerpt from Bill Moyers’ new
book, “Moyers on Democracy“.
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05-14-08 |
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JQC Looks at Judge
Who Did Not Disclose Relationships |
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05-12-08 |
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What Happens in Vegas
Has Judges Really Ticked Off at Prosecutor |
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05-09-08 |
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Ex-Associate Says
She Was Drugged at Holiday Party, BigLaw Firm Responds; |
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05-08-08 |
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Judge Allegedly
Napped, Made Bailiff Rub Her Back |
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05-05-08 |
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How Rainmakers Do It;
Looking to Move Up, Partners Are Getting Rainmaking Advice on
the Down-Low; |
04-23-08
from
07-05-03
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Cousin Judge Michael
Garson Case - NY Judge Avoids Jail, Resigns Bar Over Handling
Aunt's Money; NY Judge Who Reportedly Offered to Wear Wire to
Set Up Colleague Sees Plea Deal Evaporate; Disgraced Judge's Cuz Kos Plea Deal; Disgraced Judge Won't Be Charged; "NY Judge Loses Latest Bid to Dismiss Charges"Suspension ' With Pay' For Brooklyn Judge; Embattled NY Judge Requests Suspension With Pay Judge Denies Ripped off Aunt; Judge to Give up in Aunt Theft; Judge to be Indicted; Judicial Watchdog Must Wake Up; Judge Must 'Aunty Up' $163,000; Judge
Garson: Accused of Theft Testifies
The Alleged Disappearance of Cash
from his Elderly Aunt's Estate
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04-20-08 |
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Behind Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand
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04-16-08 |
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BigLaw Copycat Linked to
E-Mail Blast of Virus-Carrying Fake Subpoenas |
04-16-08
from
12-22-06 |
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The Tobacco Suit:
Husband-and-Wife Firm [Stanley and Susan Rosenblatt] Awarded
$218 Million in Fees Despite BigLaw ObjectionCourt Helps Ill Smokers
Filing Individual Suits - Smokers Get Update on 660 Lawsuits; Florida's Supreme Court
Gave Ailing
Smokers a Boost to
File Individual Lawsuits Against the Tobacco
Industry, Though it Upheld an Earlier Decision to Throw out a
$145 Billion Award.
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04-15-08 |
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CyberWoman Scorned:
Angry NY Wife Tries Divorce-by-YouTube Tactic |
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04-10-08 |
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Bush Lawyers Seek the Next
Soft Landing - The Circuit from Private Practice to Government and
Back to Private Practice
|
04-08-08
from
11-07-07
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Montgomery Blair
Sibley: Courtroom Fireworks Predicted as DC Madam Trial Opens; DC Madam's Lawyer Sues Judges for "Judicial
Treason": The Man Behind the Madam
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04-07-08 |
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It's Funny Cause It's True: TV
Show Looks for Humor in Getting Sued |
|
04-04-08 |
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Lawyers Fight DNA Samples
Gained On Sly; When You Lick and Envelope
it Could be Your DNA: Cops Can Use Fake JD Sheepskin to Pull the
Wool Over Murderer's Eyes
|
04-03-08
from
12-13-06 |
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The Borat Lawsuits:
Judge Junks Fifth Avenue 'Borat' Suit; Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat Has the Last Laugh; "Borat"
Sued by Duped Drivers' Ed Teacher; Borat
Film Notoriety Not Niiiice; NY
Businessman Sues "Borat"; Wa Wa
Wee Wa, Is Borat in Trouble Again?; Man
Claiming "Borat" Accosted Him
in Restroom Sues; Man Claiming "Borat"
Accosted Him in Restroom Sues; Frat Boys Denied Injunction Against "Borat"; NY
Judge Gives "Borat" Suit a Thumb Down, Romanian Villagers Vow a
Rewrite; Woman
Claims She was Duped by "Borat," Seeks Criminal Probe; "Borat" Co-Stars
Upset at Being Duped, Some Sue; Sacha
Baron Cohen Hides in Plain Sight -Unrehearsed, Accidental 'Borat' Stars
Want Last Laugh - Americans in Blockbuster Film Say They Were
Duped; Frat
Boys Are First Borat Victims To Sue; First Comes Borat, Then
Comes Bruno, Then Comes the Big BucksTurkish Man Says He's the
Real "Borat," Wants Piece of the Profits; Kazakhstan Strips
Borat of Site; Kazakhstan on Borat: Not Nice
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04-03-08 |
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Clinton Connection:
When the Clintons Mine Big Bucks |
|
03-30-08 |
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Beltway Bacchanal:
Congress Lives High on the Contributor's Dime - The Dining and
Wining of Congress
|
03-30-08
from
02-21-08
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Campaign Spending By Obama and
Clinton: Campaign Contributions May Predict Superdelegates’ Vote; Obama and Clinton Spending
Furiously |
|
03-28-08 |
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Family Business: NY
Lawyer Can't Represent His Dad, a Reputed Mafioso, Judge
Says |
03-23-08
from
07-11-06 |
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Spitzer
NY State Attorney General & Governor - Sifting the Wreckage for
the Real Eliot Spitzer; Deciding Whether to
Prosecute Spitzer Poses Sensitive Issues; On Trips, Eliot Spitzer
Mixed Business with High-Priced Prostitute Pleasure; Omg! I
Just Did the Governor! Spitz Hooker's DC Discovery; There Go the Reforms That
Never Was: Spitzer Resigns in Sex Scandal and Turns His Attention to
Healing His Family; Foes of Sex Trade Are Stung by the Fall of an Ally; Spitzer a Repeat Customer, Investigators Say, N.Y.
Governor May Have Spent $80,000, Faces GOP Impeachment Threat; Revelations Began in Routine Tax
Inquiry; GOP Lawmakers Threaten to Impeach Spitzer - N.Y. Governor
Faces Resignation Calls; Cops Say Cash Payments Led to Probe;
Spitzer Shares Arrogance of Other Powerful Men; Mrs.
Spitzer Stands By Her Man; Why
Do Smart People Do Dumb
Things? Behavior Experts Dissect Prostitution Mess Surrounding
Spitzer; Suspended Spitzer Aide Is
Expected Back at Work; Stormy Gov. Spitzer's All the
Rage; Bruno Hits Spitz as Elex-$$
'Hypocrite'; Spitzer's Numbers Take Dive; Supporters Buying Time
with Spitzer; Judge Scandal Could Tarnish
Spitzer Shine; Spitzer
Pays Big Bonuses to Campaign Staff; Empire
of the Son- Spitzer Reaps Fortune from Dad’s
$500 Million Real Estate Smarts; Owners of Tony Shops Stunned to
Learn That Ag Is Their Landlord; Spitzer
Leads Faso by $36m 2 Sides of Spitzer
Love-hate Relationship with Civil Libertarians; Complaint Filed Over
Spitzer's Role in Trust; Spitzer Took 25g
from Wrist-slap Firm's Man - a Giant Insurer Investigated by NY
State Attorney General Eliot
Spitzer Got Slap on the Wrist after
Spitzer Got 25,000 Campaign
Donation from a Former Employee; Eliot on
Charity Role: Couldn't Be Prouder; Spitzer’s Role in a Trust Is
Questioned by Suozzi - Charity Invested in Hedge
Funds Donate to Spitzer Millions
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03-20-08
from
06-12-06
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Darren Mack
Nevada Trial: Sentenced and Prior Proceedings; Murders of
Wife, Divorce Judge Trigger $590 Million Wrongful Death Verdict; Judge Says Mack
Must Go to
Trial for All Charges; Darren Mack Case Turned Over to Clark
County Prosecutors; Mack Puts Together Diverse Legal Team; Judge
Shot by Sniper Makes First Public Appearance; Wealthy Pawnbroker
Arrested in Sniper Shooting of Judge; Search for Darren Mack Day
Three; Judge Told
Officials Mack Had Harassed Him in the Past; Wounded Judge Was Despised by Some Parents: Judge Is Hurt in Shooting at a Court in
Nevada - Nevada Family Court Judge Chuck Weller Shot Standing By
Window" Police Expect Reno Suspect to Surrender
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03-19-08 |
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Local Lawyer's Fairy Tales Should be Required Knight Time Reading
For JD’s |
|
03-19-08 |
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What Does a Sullivan &
Cromwell Partner Make? NY Judges Can't Agree |
03-19-07
from
10-12-05 |
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New York Judge Gross: NY Judges Officially Bounced From Bench; Justice
for Gall: "Fantasy Life" Fiasco: Ex-NY Judge Gets Prison for
Laundering Mob Money; Campaign Warchest; Justice Gross NY Judge Pleads Not Guilty to Federal
Charges
Mob Judge Demands to be Paid; Suspended Judge Hopes to Keep Getting Paid During His
Trial
Judge Is Charged in Money-Laundering Case; Long
Island Judge
David Gross Arrested for Money Laundering, Fencing
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03-07-08 |
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Wall Street Star,
Others Fined for Taking Gifts of Drugs, Super Bowl Tix and
Strippers New |
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03-04-08 |
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Local Lawyer's
Penchant for Punching Folks Not Arbitrator's Problem |
|
02-27-08 |
|
Suit Against NBC Over
Suspected Pedophile Attorney's Suicide Greenlite |
|
02-27-08 |
|
Unauthorized
Practice of Law; What Can They Do, Kick Him Out of Jail?
Inmate Suspected of Unlicensed Practice of Law; NY Lawyer
Disbarred, But Don't Feel Too Bad for Him - He Just Bought a $35
Million House; Nancy Grant
Convicted for (UPL) Unauthorized Practice of Law: Civil Rights
Activist Gets 15 Years Probation, Plans to Appeal; Guilty on
All 19 Counts - A Desoto County Jury Convicted Activist
Late Friday on Charges of Practicing Law Without a License
|
|
02-27-08 |
|
NY Attorney Faces
Criminal Charges for Telllng Clients They Could Quit Their Jobs |
|
02-21-08 |
|
McCain Campaign Finance
and Favors for Lobbyist: AinFor McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics
Poses Its Own Risk
|
02-08-08
from
09-06 -07 |
|
Bank of America Blindsiding
Cardholders? The Nation's Biggest Bank Is Doubling Interest Rates
for Some of its Most Responsible Credit Card Customers; Credit Card
Companies Evil Tricks; The Dirty Secret of Campus Credit Cards;
|
02-04-08
from
01-27-08
|
|
Lawyer Regulation:
Some States Seek Change in How Lawyers Are Regulated; Intern's
Use in Court Slammed |
01-30-08
from
09-27-07 |
|
Florida Tax Amendment -
Tax Plan Passes: The People Have Spoken; Tax Chaos Reigns, Not Reform; Judge Rejects Tax-cut Wording,
Halts State Amendment Vote
|
|
01-29-08 |
|
Rich Law Schools Getting
Richer |
|
01-29-08 |
|
Say Good Bye to
Touch-screen Voting in Florida - Most County Voters to Use
System for the Final Time
|
01-19-08
from
07-30-2006 |
|
Options
Backdating: Inside the Backdating Probe: the SEC Speaks
Investigators Are Amazed at How Common the Practice Was and the
Involvement of Lawyers; Backdating Issues Create a Taxing Situation in More
Than One Way; Backdating Probe Snares General Counsel; A Counselor Pulled
From the Shadows - Larry W. Sonsini, Silicon Valley’s Most
Feared and Sought After - Lawyer, May of his Clients Are in the
Limelight Because of a Growing Scandal Involving Possible
Improprieties or Illegalities Relating to the Backdating of
Lucrative Stock Options Among Them Brocade Communications
|
|
01-15-08 |
|
Clerk Is Charged in
Scheme to Scam Divorcing Couples |
|
01-14-08 |
|
Telecoms Pull the Plug on
FBI's War on Terror Wiretaps Over Unpaid Bills |
|
01-10-08 |
|
Judge Wasn't Just Wrong, He Was
Downright Rude, Lawyer Says |
|
01-07-08 |
|
Firms Hungry for More
Lawyers in Russia - Now the American and UK Lawyers Go to Russia
|
|
01-02-08 |
|
Judge's Lurid Torture
Fantasies Caught on Tape Force Him to Resign |
|
12-24-08 |
|
Judge Orders
Fashion-Conscious Couple Appearng Pro Se to Pay $41,000 for
Suing Over School Dress Code
|
12-26-07
from
05-08-05
|
|
Collaborative
Divorce: Easing Families' Pain, Collaborative Divorce Good Model
for Florida; Collaborative Divorce Is Gaining Fans in Santa Fe - a Neutral, Third Party
Helps the
Disputing Parties Settle Their Case |
|
12-20-07 |
|
Disabled Man
Says Threats to Punch and Strangle Judge Were Hollow Ones |
|
12-19-07 |
|
Inmate Claims
Discrimination: If I Had a Hammer, I'd Worship in My Jail
Cell |
|
12-12-07 |
|
"Danger: Avoid Death"
Wackiest Warning Labels |
12-11-07
|
|
Appeals Court Dismisses
Complaint Against Judge -Panel Says That Despite the Times'
Allegations of Favoritism in Judgments and Fees, the Jurist's
Ties Didn't Affect His Impartiality
|
|
12-10-07 |
|
The Pursuit of
Justice, or Money? |
12-07-07
from
01-18-06
|
|
Miami Fire-fee Deal Draws Heat -
Law Firm to Pay $1.6m in Fire-fee Scandal; All Miami Fire-fee Payers Will Get Deal; Miami Offers Taxpayers $5.2m as Fire-fee Refund; Miami Mayor Faces Bar Ethics Probe Over Settlement Tossed by
Judge; Review Conduct in Miami - fee Case Our Opinion ; Florida Bar
Should Investigate, Discipline Lawyers; essons from the
Fire-rescue Fee Fiasco; Judge Orders Firm to Return $1 Million
Fee in Controversial Secret Settlement; Property
Owners in Miami Are Disputing a $7 Million Controversial Legal
Settlement Concerning Fire-rescue Fees
|
12-05-07
from
01-26-07
|
|
Hurricane Katrina
Litigation and Fees: Accused of Bribing a Judge, Famous
Lawyer Drops Out of Katrina Lawsuits; HighProfile Lawyer Indicted in
Suspected Scheme to Bribe Judge; Insurers Win
Ruling On Katrina Levee Break Appeals Court Says No to Claims
Payout; Lawyers Could Get
$46 Million Windfall in Katrina Suit
|
11-30-07
from
02-23-04
|
|
Lawyers Told: Be More
Civil - Judge Hammers Firm and Partners, Bemoans Loss of
Civility; Florida State Courts Asked to Improve
Professionalism Among Members of the Florida Bar
|
|
11-28-07 |
|
NY Firm Can Sue Client
for Contingency Fee After Billing $18 Million, Getting $5
Million in "Gifts" |
|
11-27-07 |
|
Corruption Indictment
Reveals Bitter Fight Over Fees |
11-26-07
|
|
Big Bad Bankruptcy
Trustees Aim to Blow Some BigLaw Houses Down |
11-26-07
|
|
A Modest Proposal:
Firm Suggests It Be Paid Nearly $700 Million in Fees |
11-26-07
from
12-01-05
|
|
Paralegals - Registered
Paralegal Program Begins March 1; Justices Urged to
Amend Rules on Regulation of Paralegals; Florida Bar Wants
Them Regulated - Panel Wants Bar Section for Paralegals -
Lawmaker Advocates Mandatory Membership |
|
11-21-07 |
|
Striving to Keep
Divorces from Getting Messy - Collective Divorce |
|
11-21-07 |
|
Judicial
Independence, Judicial Accountability and Activist Judges
|
|
11-18-07
from
02-08-06 |
|
Retired Judge
Phillips: Guardians of Retired Judge Accused of Lax Accounting
and Improprieties; Ripped-off Judge Gets New Home; Grand' $Lam on Estate Lawyer; 'Scam' Family Plan; NY Lawyer Faces Ethics Probe Over Guardianship of
Former Judge; Judge-case Judge Probe; Lawyer Denies $Cam; Da Eyes 'Rip-off' of Judge; Out of Order - Ailing Judge's Guardian Stole 187
G; lJudge 'Home' Bound; Judge's Guardian Out; 'Prisoner'
Judge Bids for Liberty; Former Brooklyn Judge Says He's a
Virtual Prisoner in a Bronx Nursing Home Where He Has Been
Confined by a Court Order for More than a Year While His
Appointed Guardian Sells His Assets
|
|
11-18-07 |
|
The False Claims Act - Blowing
the Whistle, Many Times, Whistle Blower on Pharmaceutical Sales
Practices that she Alleges are Fraudulent
|
|
11-16-07 |
|
Rare Robbery Case Brings Cries
Of Racism - Three Black Man Break into Home, Homeowner Kills Two
under State Law it Is the Third Black Man Who Is Charged with Murder
|
|
11-06-07 |
|
NY Attorney Ousted
in Fee-Splitting Flap |
|
11-02-07 |
|
TV Judge Rules Man
Can't Keep Amputated Leg He Found in Barbecue |
|
11-01-07 |
|
Plastic
Surgeon Who Removed Alleged Drug Dealer's - Fingerprints Pleads
Guilty |
|
10-31-07 |
|
Lawyers Slam Judge
for Ruling That Raping Hooker at Gunpoint Was "Theft of
Services" |
|
10-31-07 |
|
Ralph Nader Sues
Democratic Party - Claims They Go After Anyone Who Presents a
Credible Challenge to Their Monopoly over Their Perceived
Voters"
|
|
10-31-07 |
|
Lawyer Says He Provided
Ineffective Assistance to His Client on Purpose - Lawyer Did Not
Did Not Participate in Trial When udge John O. Barry Forced Him
to Go to Trial When He Was Not Prepared to Render Effective
Counsel.
|
|
10-30-07 |
|
Law School
Scandal Could Surface at Lawyers' Fen-Phen Trial |
|
10-27-07 |
|
Video Kingpin
Tells Tales of Torture - Joe Francis Girls Gone Wild |
|
10-25-07 |
|
Second Court Ruling
Redacts Information About Interrogation - Higazy Confessedg to a
Crime He Didn't Commit.
|
|
10-24-07 |
|
Housing
Activists Try Squatter Strategy - A Grass-roots Group Is
Stealthily Moving Homeless People into Vacant Properties --To
Stem Speculation
|
|
10-22-07 |
|
NY BigLaw Partner
Charged With Stock Fraud - NY BigLaw Partner Charged With Stock
Fraud |
10-18-07
from
09-08-06 |
|
Sealed Files:
Dade Judge Voids Own Order to Seal Court File; New Rules on Court Records Often Ignored; Rush Limbaugh Has a Secret; Miami Herald Wins Honors from Florida Bar; Judge Fails to Explain Secret Settlement; Secrecy in Court Files to Be Probed; Opening Up Hidden Cases; Can Court Cases Be Hidden?
State High Court Hears Debate over Open Records; Court
Records -New Secret Case Rules Called Inadequate; Open
Court Case Files Encouraged; Civil Court Cases Were Kept Hidden in Miami-Dade County; Court Records Opening Strategy: Chief Justice: Restore Public
Trust; Concealed Cases Must Get Review; High Court Weighing Change in Sealing Cases; Clerks Ask State Supreme Court to
Keep Judges from Sealing Cases; In My Opinion Broward 'Bubba
Judges' up to Same Old Tricks; More Civil Cases Uncovered in Broward Court; Officials' Divorce
Cases Hidden on Secret Docket in Broward County, [Fort
Lauderdale] Florida
|
10-18-07
from
12-03-02
|
|
Electronic Filing:
Public Records; Paper Cuts Coming Age of
the Electronic Court Records -
Electronic Filing on
Appeal: What Does the Future Hold?;
Florida and
New York |
|
10-17-07 |
|
Estates and Trusts:
Local Lawyer Who Beat Charge of Scamming Widow Now Trying to
Escape Punitives |
|
10-16-07 |
|
New York
Lawyer-Bridezilla Sues Her Florist for More Than $400,000 Over
Big-Day Bouquets Associated Press
|
|
10-16-07 |
|
Legal Eye for the
Straight Man: Associate Blogs "The Office," Finds Laughs Rich in
Liability |
|
10-14-07 |
|
Shoplifters Avoid
Jail by Carrying Signs - ``I stole from a local store.''
|
|
10-12-07 |
|
Study: 2,002 Died
in Custody in 3 Years Half of Them Killed by Officers as They
Scuffled or Attempted to Flee |
|
10-10-07 |
|
Lawyer Presses RICO
Suit Against Other Attorneys Over Uncollected Fee
|
|
10-07-07 |
|
The People vs. the
Profiteers - Americans Working in Iraq for Halliburton Spin-off
KBR Have Been Outraged by the Massive Fraud They Saw There.
Dozens Are Suing the Giant Military Contractor, on the
Taxpayer's Behalf Whose Side is the Justice Department On?
|
|
10-03-07 |
|
Lawyer Unhappy Quits -
Ain't Life Grand?: Partner Quits, Moves to Margaritaville and
Goes to the Dogs
|
|
09-28-07 |
|
It is All About Oil: Official
Calls Kurd Oil Deal at Odds With Baghdad |
|
09-28-07 |
|
DCF Lawsuit - State Settles
DCF Case for $14 Million |
|
09-20-07 |
|
Florida Supreme
Court: Insurers Not Responsible for Flood Damage |
|
09-19-07 |
|
Politician Sues God to
Protest Suit Against Judge |
|
09-18-07 |
|
Law Schools That
Block Military Recruiting on Campus Must Pay the Price |
|
09-07-07 |
|
Unopposed NY
Lawyer Running for Judgeship Doesn't Make List of "Qualified"
Candidates - A New Court Rule, Part 150 of the Rules of the
Chief Administrative Judge, Required That Screening Panels Be
Appointed in Each of the State's 12 Judicial Districts.
|
|
09-06-07 |
|
Experiment in Doggy Democracy
Ends With Woman Pleading Guity to Registering Pooch to Vote -
Washington State Woman Who Registered Dog to Vote Pleads Guilty,
Avoids Jail Time.
|
|
09-05-07 |
|
Novel Crime: Author
Convicted for Murder After Describing Killing in Book |
|
09-04-07 |
|
Can't Afford a Lawyer? Be
One - System Adjusts as DIY Approach to Legal Matters Gains
Popularity Pro -Se |
|
09-04-07 |
|
Big Law Goes to War
Defending Corporations Facing Federal Probes Over Iraq Contracts |
|
09-01-07 |
|
Help, but the Price Is
Steep - Advances on Personal-injury Plaintiffs and Lawyers with
Promising Cases |
|
08-31-07 |
|
$75 Million
Fee fight Reaches a Boil |
|
08-27-07 |
|
With the Bench Cozied Up
to the Bar, the Lawyers Can’t Lose |
|
08-21-07 |
|
Got a Legal Problem?
Your Site for Answers Is Moving - to the Library |
|
08-20-07 |
|
Judge Sued for
Allegedly Bullying Guy Arrested for Scratching His Maserati |
|
08-20-07 |
|
A Quest to Get More Court
Rulings Online, and Free |
|
08-13-07 |
|
Man Sues Florist When Wife
Discovers Affair From Flowers Receipt |
|
08-06-07 |
|
N.J. Appeals
Court: Client's Illegitimate Purpose Isn't Necessarily the
Lawyer's |
08-05-07
from
03-24-03 |
|
World Trade Center Money: Pols Move
on 9/11 $1b Held 'Captive' ; WTC Lawyer the
'Devil's Advocate' - Lawyers Sucked $47 Million out of the $1
Billion World Trade Center Money That Should Go to 10,000 Cops,
Firefighters and Other Workers with Illnesses Blamed on Toxic
Exposure at Ground Zero; Injured Ground Zero Workers Slam WTC
Captive Insurance Co. & Mayor Bloomberg Over Misuse of FEMA
Funds
Schumer Blasts
Taxpayer-Financed Insurance Company For Stonewalling Ground
Zero
Recovery Workers; NY to Widen Scope for Captives
|
07-27-07
from
04-25-2007
|
|
John Edwards the Presidential
Candidate: How John Edwards Makes His Millions Grow -
Investments in Limited Partnerships, an Offshore Hedge Fund and
Subprime-mortgage Lenders Have Made this Wealthy Presidential
Candidate Even Richer Richie Rich in Bib Overalls
|
|
07-23-07 |
|
Off the Record?: Despite High Demand and High Pay, Court
Reporters in Short Supply |
07-19-07
from
03-13-03
|
|
Internet
Site: Networking Sites Play New Roles in Legal Battles; Pa. High
Court Weighs Protection for Anonymous Online Critics - Judge
Sues for Defamation on the Internet
|
|
07-16-07 |
|
'Hands-tied' Judge Fumes
as She Nixes 'Theft' |
|
07-13-07 |
|
Justice Is Bald -
Civil and Family Court Judges in England and Wales Will Dispense
with Their Wigs
|
07-11-07
from
07-11-06 |
|
Doctor Blows Up His House: Aftershocks of Big Blast, One Year After; 'Dr. Boom' Suits Grow; Doc's Lot for Sale in Land Boom; Doctor’s Isn’t the
First
Marriage to
Be Reduced to Rubble: Dr. Doom's Heir-Ball Kin Face a
Big Bucks Nightmare;
Doctor Buried; Burns Killed Doctor;
New York Doc's Death Declared a
Suicide;
Doc Dies at
Hospital;
There a Doctor Under the House;
Doctor Boom's
[New York City] East
Side Blast
Signs of
Tampering Seen
in Town Houses
Gas Line;
|
|
07-11-07 |
|
|
|
07-09-07 |
|
Disciplinary History Added to
Florida Bar’s Web Site
|
07-07-07
from
02-27-06
|
|
Anna Nicole Smith; 2nd
Circuit Re-Examines Standard for Probate Exception Relies
on Marshal Decision; Second
Judge in Anna Nicole Smith Case Resigns -- and TV May Be Next; Judge [Seidlin]
in Anna Nicole Smith Case to Resign; Anna
Judge to Quit after Pot Rap; Anna
Nicole Smith's Will Filed; Broward
Judge: Sorry about Pot Bust; As
Hearing on Anna Nicole Smith's Baby Nears, Dealmaking Goes On;
Law Professor Says Anna Nicole Smith's Daughter is No Million
Dollar Baby; Judges
in Anna Nicole Smith Case Shuffled; Was it the Pot Bust?; Judge From Anna Nicole Smith Hearings Busted for
Smoking Pot in Park; "Weepy
Wacko" Judge Mocked Over
Anna Nicole Smith Case;
Anna Nicole Smith's Mother Seeks to Overturn Order on Where
Starlet Should Be Buried; Anna Nicole Smith Fight Goes to
Bahamas; Partner, Florida Judge in Anna Nicole Smith Case Is
Vilified as 'Weepy Wacko'; Opposing Anna Nicole Smith's
Claims to Oil Millions, Says Litigation Rages On; Smith Case is
More Than Just Theatrics, Beneath the Spectacle of the Model's
Death are Vexing
Legal Questions; Supreme Court Backs
Anna Nicole Smith; Legal
Drama Moves Center Stage to Supreme
Court; Court throws out
$88.5 million award to Anna Nicole Smith
|
|
07-06-07 |
|
Calif. Lawyers
Sue Governor Schwarznegger Over Pay
|
|
07-06-07 |
|
Local Divorce Case
Generates $11 Million in Fees, Plenty of Dirt |
|
07-02-07 |
|
Lawyer Makes Her
Screen Debut in "Sicko" |
|
07-02-07 |
|
Paralegal Pay On the Rise, Especially for Specialists |
|
06-28-07 |
|
Popular Lawyer Hounded to
Death by Publicity Seeking DAs Over Purloined Laptop, Porn, Pals
Say |
|
06-25-07 |
|
Law Firm Signs $900
Million Lease; Law Firm Cravath Swaine & Moore Will Pay
Approximately $900 Million over 15 Years to Renew its Midtown
Lease with Macklowe Properties Inc., According to Bloomberg News
|
|
06-25-07 |
|
Scandals' Legal Fees
Cost Taxpayers $13m; Clout-heavy Law Firms Cash in on Corruption
Probes
|
06-21-07
from
05-30-07
|
|
Bad Lawyer Joke:
Over Courtroom Wisecrack; Firm's Top Lawyer to Offer Apology's for Partner's Wiseass Remark
to Judge; Big
Law Practice Leader's Wisecrack Costs Him a Client |
|
06-18-07 |
|
Duke Prosecutor
Disbarred, Faces Lawsuits and Ruin
|
|
06-18-07 |
|
Similar Cases,
Diverging Ends-In Pinellas Cases Against a Man of Influence and
a Man of None, One Is Offered Probation |
06-15-07
from
01-06-05
|
|
U.S. Supreme Court
and State Property Rulings: N.J. Eminent Domain Limit; Voters
Back Limits on Eminent Domain; Nine States Limit Eminent Domain; Ohio's High
Court Backs Property
Owners; Groups Seek End To Eminent Domain Abuse
Eminent Domain Project at Standstill Despite Ruling Court Won't Reconsider
Property Case Libertarians Urge Seizure of Justice Breyer's Property to
Protest High Court Ruling Ruling Sets Off Tug
of War Over Private
Property; Land Fight Hits
Home for Justice; States Mobilize Against U.S. Supreme Court Property Ruling: For Homeowners, Liberal Land Grab; Frustration and Anger at Court Ruling; Justices Ponder Taking Property for
Development; Cities May Seize Homes for Private Developers;
Litigation in Housing- Rising Property Levies Spur Lawsuits, House not
for Sale, Can the Government Force You to Sell Your
House in the Name of Development
|
06-14-07
from
10-27-06
|
|
New York Town Justice
Courts: Panel Begins Review of State's Town and Village Courts;
Judge Slams the Story
of Broken Bench A Yearlong Investigation by the
New York Times
of the Life and History of New York State’s Town and Village
Courts
|
|
06-13-07 |
|
Lawyer Refers Client to
Reality TV Show "ExWives Club" |
06-12-07
from
11-28-02 |
|
Judge Diamond
Eyed in Court:: Defiant NY Lawyer Wins Dismissal of Two
Criminal Charges Against Him; Judges' Grudges Kindle Clash in
Appeal from Diamond Ruling by LaRosa; Boys Free of
'Millionaire' Welfare Mom; Judge Diamond Slapped in Art Scam; Appeal Declined
on Diamond Decision in Jacoby & Meyers owner Gail Koff Divorce
Case; NY Lawyers Santioned in suit That Put Spotlight on Judges' Holdings; Judge Probed in
'Salon Pal' Custody Furor; Arrest Our Mom;
Appellate Court
Stands by Diamond; Diamond $$$
Offer of Settlement; Judges Slap
Back: Conflict Rules Relaxed for Judges; Case Takes
Bizarre
Turn; Rules for
Judges May Be Relaxed; Expert Before
Justice Diamond Investigated; Investigation
of New York Judges; Judge Acts in Concert With Law Firm; Shakeup of CJC: Under Chase
Bank as Executor $6.8 million Bite out of Ammon Estate; Court Tosses
Judge Diamond Ruling; Accuser
Rough on Diamond: JCC Seeks
Recording
of Hearing; Queen of Conflicts;
Suit Gets
Day
in Court; A Foreclosure
Suit Hot Potato-Art of the Steal; Conflict Judge Benches
Self
- Diamond Before Judicial Commission;
Wall Streeter Cries
Injustice - Feds
Eye Conflict
Lawyer; Still Trust Worthy Judge; No Order
of Protection for Judge Diamond; Appellate
Court May Toss Out Diamond Rulings; Judge Is Benched; Courting
Disaster; Feds Probing Diamond; NY Judge Who Was Previously Accused
Of Sending Herself Threatening Letters
|
|
06-11-07 |
|
New Life for Blog: Libby’s Supporters
Who Wrote to Judge Learn That Letters Take on New Life on the Web
|
|
06-08-07 |
|
"Cold Cash" Congressman
Pleads Not Guilty - Hid Bribe Money in Refrigirator |
|
06-12-07 |
|
Courts Hired a
Criminal - Expert Hired Although he had a Criminal Record |
|
05-30-07 |
|
Bush's Sheikh Buddy
Wants Him to Make Camel Jockey Suit Go Away |
|
05-25-07 |
|
Lobbying - the Price of
Influence
|
|
05-24-07 |
|
Judicial
Corruption Corrodes Rule of Law - Global Corruption Report 2007 |
|
05-23-07 |
|
Lawsuits Involve
Millions of Drivers - Plaintiffs Say Ads Sent in Registration
Packets Violated Their Privacy.
|
|
05-22-07 |
|
No Lawyers? What's the Big
IDEA? Parents Do Not Need to Hire Lawyers to Litigate Public
School Special Education Disputes Involving Their Children, the
U.s. Supreme Court Ruled
|
05-20-07
from
11-18-06
|
|
Alleged
Falsification of Court Records Dade County- No Wrong Found in
False Court Records; Defense Attorneys
Seek Probe
of Fake Court
Records; Dade Won't Falsify
Court Records, Rundle Says; Miami Herald
Watchdog Dockets Doctored to Shield Snitches in at Least Two
Cases, Miami-Dade Prosecutors and Judges Had False Court Records
Created to Protect Government Snitches. One Prosecutor Calls it
`An Established Practice.'
|
|
05-15-07 |
|
NY BigLaw Leader
Scores $1 Million Fee in Pro Bono Case |
05-14-07
from
10-27-04 |
|
Child Custody and Child Support: DNA, New Law Can End Child
Support Payments in Florida; Court Panel Upholds Custody
Rights Grant
to Nonbiological Lesbian Mom: Child-custody Case of Gay
Parents Pits Law Two States; 'Poor' Pa Ponies up $250,000; This is Not About Money This is
About Me s a Father Says Sean (P. Diddy) Combs;
When Child Support Is
Due Even
the Poor Find Little Mercy; City Often Took Children
Without Consulting Court; Court Limits Removing
Child When
Mother Is Abuse Victim - New York
State's
highest court ruled
that children cannot be taken from their
home merely because they have been exposed to domestic abuse at
home
|
05-14-07
from
05-22-05 |
|
The Mafia Princess (Judge
Deborah Kaplan); Married-to-the-mob Cash Clash;Judge 'Booty' - Claim They Put Roof Over Her Head; Eviction 'Revenge' vs. Mafia; Who Became a NYC Judge;
The Father
of the Judge (Burton Kaplan) In a Rat's Nest - Mob Turncoat Bids to
Evict Capo's
Son; (Using Court to Enforce a Money Laundering Scheme Through
Mortgages)
Judge Rips Her Mob-Rat
Father Mafia Cops Were Gonna Betray Me, Father
Tells Jury; Judge's Dad Is Mobster
-
Career Criminal Will Testify Against
Alleged Mafia Cops
|
05-11-07
|
|
The Profit in
Merger Deals: NY Partners and Associates Working on Billion
Dollar Deals
|
|
05-10-07 |
|
For Women Lawyers,
Gender Gap Is Generation Proof
|
|
05-08-07 |
|
Judge's Libel Victory Against Paper Is Upheld - $2 Million Libel
Verdict Upheld Against the Boston Herald for Articles That Said
a Superior Court Judge Had Made Disparaging Comments about Crime
Victims and That He Was Lenient with Criminals
|
|
05-07-07 |
|
Deployed Troops Battle
for Child Custody - |
|
04-29-07 |
|
Rotten Lawyers Face Raft of
Raps in Ripoffs - Meet
some of New York's lousiest lawyers. |
|
04-25-07 |
|
Law School
Massacre Shows Virginia Tech Lawsuits Face Big Hurdles |
|
04-25-07 |
|
For $82 a Day, Booking a
Cell in a 5-Star Jail |
|
04-24-07 |
|
Retiring Lawyers May Leave
Firms in Bind - Attrition of Lawyers |
04-20-07
from
04-12-07
|
|
Millions for Fees -
Broward Judge Oks $22.9 Million Payday for 'Superstar' Lawyer --
That's $1,050 an Hour; Court Is Like a Carnival at Hearing for
Lawyer Seeking $11,000 per Hour and Colleagues - |
|
04-20-07 |
|
GC Says Judges Are
Being "Paid Off," Putting His Company on the Hot Seat |
|
04-13-07 |
|
Paying the Tab of Rogue NY
Lawyers: Misconduct Fund Braces for Surge |
|
04-04-07 |
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DOJ Sues "We the
People" Over Alleged Tax Scam - U.S. Prosecutors Seek to
Stop Robert Schulz from Telling People They Can Legally Stop Their
Income Tax Withholdings
|
|
03-29-07 |
|
Judge Joining NY Firm
Makes No Bones About It: It's About the Money |
03-29-07
from
03-28-07
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Alimony for Sex Changed
Ex-Wife: Pay the Dude! Ex-Wife's Sex Change Doesn't End Alimony,
Judge Rules; Man Reckons His Ex's Sex
Switch Should Nix Alimony Checks |
|
03-28-07 |
|
NY Firm Accused of
Manipulating Settlement to Boost Its Fees Faces Trial |
03-22-07
from
03-16-07
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|
Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales; Axed US Attorneys Scored Well in Prosecution
Stats; Fired US Attorney Was Touted for Judgeship by DOJ
Official Just Before Being Axed; Senate Panel Clears Way for Subpoenas in Probe
of U.S. Attorney Firings |
|
03-21-07 |
|
Judge "Exorcises"
Ghostwriting Lawyer From Case on Ethics Grounds - Court Rules
Ghostwriting Pleadings for a Pro Se Litigant Violates a Lawyer's
Ethical Duty
|
|
03-15-06 |
|
First Amendment Divorce
Feud - The Battle for the Jewish Divorce the Get |
|
03-13-06 |
|
Second Circuit
Names Some Big Names to New Lawyer Watchdog Group |
|
03-09-07 |
|
Push on to
Slow Florida Constitutional Changes |
03-09-07
from
01-01-02
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U.S. Supreme Court Judicial
and Other Salary: Minority Law Clerks Among the Topics at
Supreme Court Budget Hearing; Greedy Judges, Not Low Pay, Undermine Our Courts;
Justice Kennedy Says Judicial Morale Low Over Pay; ABA Backs Pay
Boost for Federal Judges; Chief
Justice Says Need to Raise
Judge’s Salary |
|
03-08-07 |
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Law Firms -
A Business Approach |
|
03-06-07 |
|
The Rite of
Confirmation of NY Chief Judge Judith Kaye: Chief Judge Kaye
Reconfirmed over Some Republican Opposition
|
|
02-27-07 |
|
Fla. Gov Faces the
Music - Florida's Governor Is Sued on Charges That He Turned a
Blind Eye to Ponzi Scheme of Lou Pearlman, Accused of a $56
Million Swindle
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|
02-22-07 |
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Former NY Chief Judge
Clears First Hurdle to Reinstatement as a Lawyer |
|
02-16-07 |
|
In Fraud Case, 7 Years in Jail
for Contempt |
02-08-07
from
11-18-06
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|
Sheldon Silver: Stunning Lack
of Integrity; Gov Rips Traitor Pols; Gov Strikes
Mother Lode in Silver Blast, Who is More Corrupt; Dark Horse
Boasts of Melting Silver; Park the Ads, Sheldon Silver - Shel's Law
Firm Pulls 'Sue State' Web Ad; NY State
Parks Commissioner Castro
Said it is "Appalling" Lawfirm
Employs Silver Solicits Clients to Sue the State
|
|
02-06-07 |
|
A.B.A. Panel Would Weaken
Code Governing Judges’ Conduct |
01-29-07
from
01-21-04 |
|
Reich Admits Taking
Bribes; Disgraced NY Lawyer Makes Bid to Overturn His
Conviction; Government Seeks 6-1/2 Years in Prison for NY Lawyer; Top Brooklyn Legal Eagle Caged for Bribery; Arrested NY Lawyer
Reich Was Grilled by FBI, Asked to Wear Wire; Lawyer Could
Be
Indicted Soon For Taking Bribes-Brooklyn Bar Boss Reich in Bribe Shocker - Lawyer Appointed to Watch Foreclosures Takes
Bribe
|
|
01-29-07 |
|
Lawyer's Sin in Court
-- Disrespect -- Gets Visited on Clients. WWJD?;
Decorum on Appeal: When Judges Are Under Attack
|
01-28-07
from
01-17-07 |
|
Disorder Rules in
Michigan Court- Effort to Make Court Arguments Confidentrial
Smacks of 'Robitis' Childish Spats Between Gop Justices on Michigan's
Supreme Court Have Many in the Legal System up in Arms
|
|
01-26-07 |
|
Shamus Can't Sue NY
Lawyers to Collect Illegal Fees - Investigator Hired by Lawyer
Can't Sue Lawyer for his Fees |
|
01-24-07 |
|
Trimming NY Judge's Pay
Seen as Abuse of Power |
|
01-24-07 |
|
Judge Judy's Son Announces
Run for DA- the Son of Television's Judge Judy Sheindlin Is
Running for the Office of District Attorney in Putnam County
|
|
01-20-07 |
|
[Congressman]Schumer
a Party Pooper
- Rips
His Party for Being in the Clutches of Special-interest Groups
for Too Long and for Losing Touch with the Middle Class
|
01-19-07
from
05-18-03 |
|
Bridget Marks Custody
Case- Playboy Ma Ko'd in Court; Model in Tug-o'-love Sues Phychiatrist; Tycoon & Model End Tug-o'-Love - Agree On Visitatio': Tug-o'-love Dad Bets on City Casinos; Casino King: Deal My
Kids Back; Not Over, Twins Dad Sees Them as Bi-Coastal; 'Ecstatic Over Twin Win; Victorious Mom's Twins Home to Stay; Appellate Court Restores Custody of Twins to Bridget Marks; 2 Judges Transferred from Family Court - One
of Them Bridget Judge - Judges Grill Love-twin Father's Lawyer; Dr.
Phil Show; No More Supervised Visitation; Twins' Mom
Loses Again; Twins Reunited on Sunday; Twins' Trip Hinges on
Psychiatrist; O.K. Twins California Summer; Twins For $5G: Dad
Wants Press Out; Sues for Child Support:
Federal Court Turns Marks Away; She Lost: Teary
Mom In Custody Fight Slams 'Heartless' Legal System;
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|
01-16-07 |
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Courthouseforum. Com and
Ratethecourts.Com Have Added a New Feature That Allows the
Public and Attorneys to Anonymously Vote for the Worst Judges of
2006. The Websites List over 27,000 of the Nation's Judges.
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|
01-13-07 |
|
The Sales of Justice
(Village Voice) - In the Dark Corridors of Brooklyn Politics, a State Supreme
Court Judgeship Sells for $50,000 Stuffed in an Envelope, and
$6,000 in Postage Stamps
|
01-15-07
from
07-15-06 |
|
Judicial
Accountability Activities: Despite SD Loss, J.A.I.L.4judges Targets
Florida Attorneys Urged to Be Prepared for the Fight; Were Dakota Voters Duped?
Well-funded ‘Insider’ Effort Sabotages Judicial Reform; Fight Against 'Judicial Activism' in U.S.
Courts to Continue Despite Election Setbacks; Stegmeier: Fight for Accountability Just
Beginning; South Dakota Measure Puts Judges on Edge -
J.a.i.l. Measure Rejected in Dramatic Fashion; CA Bar Journal; Former Justice O'Connor Warns of Threat to
Judiciary; State Ballot Measures Challenge Judges' Power; After a Brief Hearing Judge Refuses to Block Ads;
Voting for Judicial Independence NY Times Editorial; CNN
Poll: Americans Don't Want Politicians
Constraining Judges; O'Connor: Don't Call Us 'Activist Judges';
Justice Scalia Rips
Other Judges on
Abortion, Suicide; Reign in on Judges; Of Election Judges and
Stupidity; The Threat to Judicial Independence by Sandra O'Connor; Profession Faces Challenges That must Be Met- Justice Harding
of Florida Supreme
Court concerned - pollsters say there is a greater satisfaction rate
for those who go through the system without an attorney than those
who go with an
attorney and Jail for Judges
|
01-10-07
from
11-11-03 |
|
Friendly Judges -
Judges Who Violate the Rules: Judge Disciplined for Friendship
with Lawyer; Chief Appeals Judge Steps down -
Accused of Appearing to Aid a Former Senators; Order in Court! (Not Robe
Room);
NY Judge Takes Stand To Defend Conduct At Murder Trial;
Judge Reprimanded for
Relations with Lawyer James Adams;
A Judge's Affair Has Ex-hubby Seething; Lee Judge to Be
Admonished by State Supreme Court; Judge Resigns After Allegedly Cashing In on Fen-Phen Settlement;
Ex-Judge's Chumminess With Lawyers Voids Arbitration Award
Did Fling Blind Judge? Legal Eagles Eye Appeals; Judge Accused of Bedding ADA: State Commission on Judicial Conduct Disciplines Judge James R. Pastrick; a Veteran
Jurist and a Lawyer Shared Cocktails and
Dinner; Panel Raps Judge Richard Hutner for Keeping
Mum on Att'y Pal Judge Removes Himself from All Criminal Cases
Federal Judge Skips Criminal Cases as Cops Target
His Secretary Questions for Ex-Judge; Censured NY Judge Ousted From Supreme
Court; Too Weak to Judge; Judge Lebedoff Took Friend's Case; Judge Censored for Seeking Favorable Treatment for Friends
Cozying
Up to
Judges, and Reaping Opportunity - (Tompkins) The Lawyers Who Are Friends of
the Court - Whom You Know
In The Courthouse
and Not What You Know; Politics Rule Judgeship Upstate Too;
Judges Say Democratic Official Issued List of Favored Lawyers;
Politics Rule In The Bronx as Well
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|
01-09-07 |
|
NY Firm Loses Bid
to Sue Ex-Client for Defamation |
|
01-09-07 |
|
Law Firm Accused of
Eavesdropping, Barred From Court |
|
01-08-07 |
|
Commentary: It's
Time to Abolish 'Invisible' State Appellate Court Rulings |
01-08-07
from
01-01-06
|
|
Chief Justice
Roberts off Mark on Judges' Earnings - Our Opinion:
Judicial Pay Shouldn't Be Tied to Congressional Salaries; O
Mighty Crisis the "Constitutional Collapse" Over Judicial Pay;
Chief Justice Says Inadequate Pay Threatens Judiciary
Independence; Roberts' Annual Report Focuses on Threats to
Judicial Independence;
|
01-05-07
from
12-31-06 |
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Lawyers, Fun & Money -
Attorney Group Would Mete Out Justice With Love; Young, Gen-X Lawyers in Their Third to Fifth Year in the
Business Are Walking Away from Their $200,000-a-year Positions
in Record Numbers
|
01-04-07
from
04-18-03 |
|
Ethical Violations, Trust Fund -
Compensation Denied from Bar Security Fund; Miami Lawyer Robles Is
"Case in Point" for Ethics Expert; Ex-lawyer's Files [Louis S. Robles]
Detail Theft; Civil Report Says New
lawyer
says 'King of Torts' may have kept money
- The Victims of Asbestos Claims Who Did Not Receive Their Money
|
|
12-28-06 |
|
Misuse of the Pork by Legislators: Hog-wild Pol Urges Eliot to
End Pork; Cigar
Smoke & Mirrors - Piggy Pol Swindled Kids
out of 400g, Spent it on Apts. &
Tobacco Biz - Feds by Funneling
It Through a Youth Program; Give All of the
Stinkin'
Guys a Stogie; NY Politcian Charged of Stealing $400,000 to Buy
Himself Yankees Tix, Cigars and Stuff
|
|
12-27-06 |
|
Steamy Blog Lawsuit Heads for
Trial-
|
|
12-27-06 |
|
Business Booming
for Lawyers: Firm Leader Survey - Forecast: Mostly Sunny
|
|
12-26-06 |
|
Retiring Justice
Laments Influence of Money But He's Hopeful Times Are Changing
Nevada Judge Rose
|
|
12-26-06 |
|
Stinging New Book May Cost
[St. Louis, Missouri] Circuit Judge Job, Some Say Robert
H. Dierker's Book Is Already the Buzz in Political and Legal
Circles |
|
12-26-06 |
|
Late James Brown's
Lawyer Says Singer's Partner Must Be Locked Out of Home |
12-23-06
from
03-05-01
|
|
Huminski's First Amendment
Battle: Man Who Called Judge a Legal 'Butcher' Settles
Lawsuit; State Will Pay Court Protester
$200,000; Federal Court Raps Vermont Judges
for Violating Protester's Huminski's Free-speech Rights;
but Dismissed Where Protected by Qualified Immunity
|
|
12-19-06 |
|
Wily 'Court Jester' Is
a Frequent Case-winner - Attorney Sy Gaer's Courtroom Antics Are
Legendary, but the Aging Veteran of the Defense Is Also Known
for His Legal Skills
|
|
12-19-06 |
|
Companies Find
Their Law Firms, Arrogant, Dissatisfying According to Survey |
|
12-15-06 |
|
Take Your Wife's Name?
That'll Cost You -- so ACLU Steps in |
|
12-14-06 |
|
NY Lawyer Provided
Excellent Defense Despite Sleeping at Trial, Judge Finds |
|
12-13-06 |
|
Disabilities Agency
Chief Resigns Amid Blanket Battle; Donors and State Warm
up to Boy's Need for Blankets Floridians, Including Gov-Elect
Charlie Crist, Opened Their Wallets for a Disabled Boy Who Was
Denied Thermal Blankets by the State, and the Agency Involved
Changed Course
|
|
12-06-06 |
|
NY Judge Denies Firm's Bid
for "Fees on Fees" New York Lawyer |
|
12-05-06 |
|
National Dollars
Find, Defeat Circuit Judge - (By Activists) What Happened in
Cole County to Tom Brown Represents a Growing Trend Across the
U.S.
|
|
12-04-06 |
|
With State Leadership
Decided, Coxe Can Move Forward - The Leadership of Florida Is
Top Heavy with Attorneys These Days |
12-02-06
from
07-19-03
|
|
David Boies
Controversy: Landscaper's Fruitful Legal Efforts May Set
Precedent;
Controversy Grows Over Boies Firm, Document Company; The Landscaper Saga:
Judge Steps Aside After Litigant Hires His Wife The Lawyer Landscaper;
Disqualified From Case, Client Ordered Jailed for Contempt
Lawyer David Boies Who Represented Gore in Trouble With Florida Bar
|
11-21-06
from
08-02-06 |
|
Bloggers: Court Says Blogs
Not Liable for 3rd Parties; Jailed After
Defying Court Orders - a Freelance Journalist Was Jailed for
Refusal to Turn over Video and to
Testify Before a Grand Jury |
|
11-21-06 |
|
Judge
Clifford Barnes: Panel Seeks To Remove Judge For Demeaning Other
Judges; State Investigates Judge Cliff Barnes in Ethics Case; St.
Lucie Judge Charged Violating Judicial Code; Judicial Leaders Say
St. Lucie Judge Has No Standing to File Complaint; Judge Says
Procedure Unfair to Indigent Defendants, Files Appeal Petition
|
|
11-18-06 |
|
Four Found Guilty of
Staging Accidents for Money |
|
11-15-06 |
|
Court Calls $193,750 Lawyer
Bill 'Injustice' - for Recovering In an Auto Insurance Lawsuit
$1,315 |
|
11-13-06 |
|
Online Law School Grad Says JD
Isn’t BS, Sues to Take Metro Bar Exam |
|
11-10-06 |
|
Sex Predators TV Show -
Sex Predators TV Show Raises Rights Issues; Caught in TV Sex
Predator Sting, Prosecutor Commits Suicide as Cops Attempt
Arrest;
|
|
11-08-06 |
|
Corruption Named
as Key Issue by Voters in Exit Polls |
|
11-07-06 |
|
Some DA's, Mad at the
Press, Take to the Web |
|
11-07-06 |
|
NYC to Change ID
Rules for Transgendered - |
|
11-03-06 |
|
Phone-Toss
Crowe's Hangup with U.S. Justice - Australian Crowe Critical of
US
Legal System |
10-30-06
from
05-25-05
|
|
NY
Judge Snyder Case: NY Judges Face Probe Over Colluding on
Politics of Decision; 2005 Morgenthau Wins Race by Big Margin;
Judge Smacks Morgy in Push for Snyder Records; D.A. Foe Order';
Judge Snyder's Misjudgment; Morgy Foe Ok'd $1m for Future
Employer; In Refersals, Questions for Ex-Judge Challenging
Morgenthau; Judges' Judge Needs Higher Standards; Anti-Morgy Pol
in Ethics $ Crap; The Dragon Lady Runs for DA; Donations Tiff in
DA Race
|
|
10-29-06 |
|
Future Tax Shock - The
Working Taxpayers under Alternative Tax Are Being Penalized, for
Everyday Deductions , but Not Superrich Whose Income Comes from
Investments
|
10-27-06
from
04-27-06
|
|
Jury Says Paralegal
Guilty of Stabbing; The Jury Rejects the "Stand Your Ground" Defense
in the Manslaughter Case; Expands Right
to Use Deadly Force in Self Defense |
10-24-06
from
01-24-05 |
|
Trial Lawyers by Any
Other Name:
First, Rename All the Lawyers; Recasting the
Image of Trial Lawyers, No Longer Association of
Trial Lawyers Renamed
"American Association for
Justice";
The Plaintiffs' Bar Whom Injured Americans
Love or the Lawyers
Whom Litigation Weary Americans Love to Hate. - Are they Vultures? Paladins?
Or, a bit of Both?
|
|
10-23-06 |
|
Topless Photo Did Not
Violate Privacy; Law Blind to Sight of Nude Woman - Appeal
Vowed: the Fate of a Freed Woman Accused of Showing All to a
Teen Boy Rests on Gender Wording
|
|
10-20-06 |
|
State Says Newspaper (Or Is
It?) Breaks Law - A Woman's Writings on Local Government Stir
Voting Officials, Who Stir the ACLU
|
|
10-17-06 |
|
Amendment No. 3 in
Florida Fails to Safeguard Public Interest - Change to Require
60 Percent of the Vote to Enact Constitutional Amendment by
Public Initiative from Simply Majority Promoted by Big Busines;
Taking the Initiative How Judges Threaten Direct Democracy
|
|
10-12-06 |
|
NY Judges Are
the Targets of Rising Number of Complaints |
10-11-06
from
03-09-05 |
|
Bankruptcy Reform: A
Year After Reform; President Signs
Bankruptcy Reform Into Law; Legislation Passes; Legislation Would Limit
Protections of Doctor's Assets
Erasing Debts In
Bankruptcy May Get Harder; Bill Tightening Bankruptcy Leaves
Holes Unplugged
|
10-10-06
from
04-30-06
|
|
Pres. Bush and His Powers
in the Name of Terrorism: Sanctioning Lawlessness; Waterboarding;
President Sidesteps the
Law: Judge Plugs Bush Taps - Nixes Warrantless Spying -
Says U.S. Has No Kings;
Senators Argue Bush's Use of Signing Statements Is
Unconstitutional; Bush Challenges Hundreds of Laws President
Cites Powers of His Office
|
10-05-06
from
08-01-05 |
|
And the Fight Goes On;
The Bottom Line: There Should Be No Dotted Line - Florida Supreme
Court Says Clients Can Waive $250,000 Limit; Doctors, Attorneys
Tangle Again over Malpractice
Fees |
10-05-06
|
|
How Much Justice Can You
Afford - 5 Shrimp, 5 Scallops, 1 Unhappy Diner - Feeling
Shorted, Ralph Paul Didn't Pay His Tab. Not Even When Police
Said He Should. On Wednesday, He Had His Day in Court.
|
10-03-06
|
|
Litigation Delay:
Judicial Procedures - Trial tribulations
|
|
10-03-06
from
09-30-06
|
|
Republican Congressman
Foley; The Foley Matter; Pol Asked Kid to Date, Says a Report-
GOP Leaders Call it 'Vile' Foley Checks Into Rehab; From Foley,
Naked Display of Weirdness; He's Got Mail and Some Serious Issues Perv E-mails Sink Pol -
Fla. Rep Flirted with Teen Pages - A Republican Congressman Who
Crusaded
Against Internet Sexual Predators Resigned on
Allegations He Sent Raunchy Online Messages to Boys Who Work as
Congressional Pages. |
09-27-06
from
09-25-06
|
|
Broken Bench: A
Yearlong Investigation by the New York Times of the Life and
History of New York State’s Town and Village Courts Found
a Long Trail of Judicial Abuses and Errors and of Governmental
Failure to Curb Them
|
09-21-06
from
09-05-03 |
|
NY Judge Lets the
Burgers Fly in McDonald's Food Fight; Banning 'Mclawsuits';
State Bill Outlawing Fast-food Litigation Nears Passage ; McDonald Settles
Fat Suit
for $8.5 Million for Delay in Reducing Fat in
French Fries; Appeals Court
Revives McDonald Suit; Big Macs Can Make
You Fat? No Kidding, a Judge Rules - and Dismisses Case Against
McDonald; Judge Purges Fatties' Mcsuit
|
09-20-06
from
08-13-04
|
|
Federal Judges
Accountability: New Rules Mean Shift Toward Accountability for
Judiciary; Did a
Federal Judge Cross a Legal Line for His Clerk? Ethics
Lapses by Federal Judges Persist, Review Finds Violations Involve
Stock Holdings And Free Trips; Thoughts on the Law
Addressing Bad Federal Judges: Self-Policing Isn't Working, But Is
There a Good Alternative?
|
|
09-13-06 |
|
Ousted
Bankruptcy Judge Loses His Bid to Win Reinstatement - Bankruptcy
Judge
who was not Reappointed After his Term Was Up Cannot Sue
to Have a Second" Term
|
|
09-08-06 |
|
Loaded Questionnaires?
Judicial Candidates Advised to Be Wary of Answers Inviting Suits
Challenging Canons
|
09-08-06
from
09-04-03 |
|
Judge Gregory
Holder: Courthouse Inquiry Ends With No Sign Of Corruption
According the FBI; Judge Asks That JQC Repay Fees; Judge Holder Aims for
Spot on Federal Bench: State
Justices To Hear Holder Case on His Fees; JQC
Needs To Pay
Up For
Gamble With Weak Case Judicial Panel Rejects Reimbursing
Holder's Fees Holder's Pricey Defense ,Judge Seeks $1.92 million
in Costs Defending Self;Judge Seeks $1.92-million in Costs
Defending Self; Panel's Decision On Judge Could Take Weeks;
Whistle Blower Judge On Trial (Fl): Say Paper Fake; Witnesses
Say No Evidence Of Plot To Discredit Holder Ex-Judge Ex-Judge
Evans Recounts Invitation to Judicial Clique; Florida Judge
Holder Under Attack Again by the JQC
|
|
09-04-06
from
05-07-06 |
|
Lawyers' Ride on the 9/11
Fund: News Backed on Curbing Lawyers' Cut of Aid; $400m for
lawyers, the Sick and Dying of 9/11 Deserve Bettter;; Widow Whose
Lawyer Won Her Award of $6.7m Now Says His One-third Fee Was Greedy
and Excessive; Lawyers 'Clean Up' on WTC Insurer
|
|
09-01-06 |
|
Businesses
Vulnerable to 'Drive-by' Lawsuits |
|
08-28-06 |
|
Sisters Broke in Feud Over
Big-Bucks Will; '56 Will Gone in Thin Heir |
|
08-27-06
|
|
Builder Tied to
Housing Scandal Is Jailed - Prosecutors Said Affordable-housing
Developer Oscar Rivero A Rising Lawyer Stole the Public's Money
to Buy Himself a House in South Miami. He Was Arrested Late
Saturday |
|
08-26-06 |
|
Ruling May Open Tax
Law To More Challenges - New ruling that government cannot
collect taxes on like emotional distress or injury to
reputation.
|
|
08-23-06 |
|
Japan Launches Reforms to
Bolster Lawyer Ranks - Japan Allowed 1500 new lawyers a year ;
Japan has roughly 22,000 lawyers -- one for every 5,790 people,
compared with one for every 268 in the United States
|
|
08-18-06 |
|
Judge Finds
Three Minutes of Suffering in Fatal Fire Does Not Equal $3M in
Damages |
|
08-09-06 |
|
Judicial Elections
Opinions, Not Promises
|
|
08-07-06 |
|
ABA Finds Women of Color Are Leaving Big Firms |
|
08-07-06 |
|
Officials: Judge Not
Accessory in His Son's Burglary Case |
07-26-06
from
11-13-05 |
|
Andrea Yates Case:
Yates Pleads Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity; Conviction
Thrown Out Because Testimony Was Based
on Nonexistent ''Law & Order'' Episode; Texas Court Clears Way
for New Yates Trial;
|
07-26-06
from
07-01-06 |
|
N.Y.P.D. Detectives Turned Hitman: Mop Cops Stay in Jail; He Acted 'Like a Man' Judge Right
to Nix Conviction, Says Eppolito; Mother's Plea to Mayor Blumberg;
Lawsuits
by Victims'
Kin Running out of Time, Too; 'A Judge's 'Slap in Face'; The
Law Is Bigger than One Shocking Ruling in Brooklyn; Mob-cop Judge Is
'Pushing Envelope'; Victims' Kin Call Ruling 'So
Absurd';
Glorious New Day for Family of
Ex-cop; Judge
Rubs out Mob Cops Verdict Overturns Convictions on Time Technicality
|
|
07-26-06
|
|
Deadbeat Pa Snags
Child's $500k - Judge, Ruled Absentee Father Entitled to Half His
Dead Daughter's Estate - Even Though the Dad Never Paid Child
Support after Abandoning the Kid,
|
07-25-06
from
07-17-05 |
|
Robin Hoods or Legal
Hoods? NY Judge Backs Indicted Firm for Spot in Back
dating Case; Milberg Weiss, Name Partners Plead Not Guilty as
More Lawyers Head for the Exits; If a Dwindling Milberg Is Convicted, Who Pays the
Price?; Former
Milberg Partners Seek Capital, Fees; Politico Aims to Ax Embattled NY Firm; Milberg Former Partners Indicted; After 41 Count
Indictment Denied Charges: Milberg, Weiss, Law Firm in $11m Scam ; Clarence Bid
to Stay out of Jail Former Partners
Indicted;
A Prominent Law Firm Prepares for Indictment; A Three-
year Investigation into Whether Mr. Lerach and
His Former New York Law Firm, Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman,
Had Used Illegal Tactics in Shareholder Lawsuits That Made Him and the Firm Rich and Famous
|
|
07-20-06 |
|
Florida Judge Charged
with Violation of State Rules for Ticket Fixes |
07-17-06
from
04-04-04
|
|
Plea Bargain: Plea Deals Lighten Jail, Court Time - Critics
Charge Process Leads to More Arrests; High Court to Assess Sentencing in State; Juries Decide
Punishment In Capital Cases; New ABA Report Says Nation's
Indigent Defense System "Mired in Crisis" Country's Poorest
Defendants At Risk of Wrongful Conviction; Order in the Court -
Over 90% of the Criminal Cases End with Plea Bargains
|
07-15-06
from
02-15-05 |
|
Judicial
Independence: 55 New Judges to be Elected in Florida; Justice Kennedy: Lawyers must Defend
Judiciary from Attacks Project Here for the Long Haul - Bar Wants to
Reclaim Power of Judicial Nomination from Governor Bush in the State
of Florida
|
07-06-06
from
02-26-04 |
|
Courts in a Computer
and Camera Age; Court Records Online Courthouse; Court Rejects 'Privacy' as Reason to Bar CamerasPanel Urges Florida Supreme Court to Decide on
Web Records; Citizens Don's Expect Privacy in Court; Privacy and Court Records: Where to Draw the Line?; Access to Records, for Better or Worse; Fl. Supreme Court Panel Rejects Greater Access To Court
Documents Online Net-friendly or
not, Panel Seeks Input; More Debate on
Internet Access in Fl - Court Records a
Click Away? Yes, In New York -With Some Safeguards - No
Public Record
on Internet in Florida
|
|
07-02-06
from
06-14-06
|
|
Not Terrorists: 'Terror
Balloon' Bust Is a Bruiser; Cops Explode "Suspicious
Box" at Courthouse, May Have Blown Criminal Case |
|
06-28-06 |
|
Charities Tied
to Doctors Get Drug Industry Gifts - |
06-28-06
from
06-27-06
|
|
Remarks Punished - Man
May Get Jail for Parking Ticket Comment; Man Jailed for Claiming
Killer Past, Drug Problem to Get Out of Jury Duty; |
|
06-27-06 |
|
Immigration Judges Face
Increased Scrutiny |
|
06-27-06 |
|
Attorney Discipline -
Probate Lawyer Disbarred, For Misuse of Clients' Fund
|
|
06-25-06 |
|
Rotten Hubby Sold
Our Home and Fled - Brooklyn Anesthesiologist Callously Ditched
His Wife and Three Kids, Leaving Them Homeless after He Secretly
Sold Their House and Fled the Country with All Their Money, the
Wife Alleges
|
06-20-06
|
|
Lawyer: Elderly Client Denied
Jury of Her Peers in Nursing Home Love Triangle
Murder |
|
06-19-06 |
|
Suit in Judge Limbo -
The lawyer is Ravi Batra a One-Time Law Partner of Disgraced
Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Clarence Norman
|
|
06-15-06
from
06-13-04
|
|
Judge Blackburne: Judge
Laura's Supreme Slap - Junk-judge Con Sentenced Again; Fired for Sneaking Suspect from Court; NAACP
Sees "Right-Wing" Pressure in Bid
to Oust NY Judge; Judge
Laura Overruled by Jury as Cop Shooter Gets Convicted;
NY
Judges' Group Opposes Colleagues Ouster From Bench;NY Judge
Wins Support of Bar Group in Fight to Stay on Bench; Let -'Em-go Judge Laura Keeps Her Pay
While Awaiting Appeal; Judge Facing Removal Seeks Paid Suspension; Judge: I Was Set up; Show the Judge the Door; Commission Seeks Removal of Judge; Show the Door to Judge 'Back Door' Blackburne; Reversed;
Judge Before Judicial
Commission; Judge Moved from Criminal Court; New York Judge
allegedly helped a robber elude
a detective who intended to arrest
him outside her courtroom.
|
|
06-13-06 |
|
Judge Rejects
Atheist Lawyer's Pro Se Suit Over "In God We Trust" on Cash |
|
06-08-06 |
|
In Las Vegas, (Which is
the Case in Many Other States) They're Playing With a
Stacked Judicial Deck -
Some Judges Routinely Rule in Cases Involving Friends,
Former
Clients and Business Associates -- and in Favor of Lawyers Who
Fill Their Campaign Coffers
|
|
06-05-06 |
|
Hitch or Ditch, She'll Help
with the Forms -Lin A. Grant, a Licensed Notary, Helps People
Start Marriages and End Them. And She Comes to You
|
|
06-04-06 |
|
In N.Y. Divorce Can
Be a Lickety-Split - Pro Se Uncontested Divorce with A Guide
|
|
06-01-06 |
|
Judge Who Wouldn't
Send Short Pedophile to Prison Faces Pressure to Resign; Judge Rules
Prisoner Too Short To Go To Prison
|
|
06-01-06 |
|
G.MATHIS: Racial Bias in
Juries Confirmed |
|
05-31-06 |
|
Court Limits
Protections for Public Whistle-Blowers - by a 5-4 margin, the
Supreme Court said governments' interests outweigh the free
speech of public workers who disclose waste or wrongdoing.
|
|
05-22-06 |
|
FBI:
Congressman, Caught on Tape Taking Cold Cash
Hid Bribe Money in Freezer
|
|
05-17-06 |
|
Shanghai Bar Association
Upset With Practices of Foreign Firms - Chinese Firms Pushing
Back American and British Law Firms
|
05-10-06
from
03-26-06
|
|
Jailed Jurist New York Ex-judge Victor
Barron: On Second Thought, Former NY
Judge Granted Parole; Judge Hits Parole Board -
Disgraced, Bribe-taking Ex-judge Victor Barron |
|
05-10-06
from
01-0504 |
|
Theft from Dead in
Brooklyn NY Court: L.I. Land Scale Scandal - Court Ok'd
Auction of Deeded Site: Probe:Tomb-raid - Probe Ex-Judge Feinberg Focus in Theft from Dead With No Wills;
Roofless People - Wheeler-dealer to Collect 85g - While Son
Loses B'klyn Bldg.; Families Tell Sorry Tale of 2 Estates
Plundered in Boro; NY Lawyer
fees Gig as Counsel to
Public Administrator; Powerful Judge Exposed by the News Is Now
an Ex-judge; Bench This Judge Pronto; NY Judge's Woes Reveal
Court's Bizarre Business
as Usual; Spitzer, Commission Split on How Excessively NY Judge's Buddy Was Paid; NY Judge Who Awarded Friend Extra $2 Million in Fees Replaced; Embattled Judge Begs for Mercy; Judicial Commission Recommends Remove Feinberg;
NY Lawyers'
Appointments as Guardians Are Focus of Report; Conduct Panel
Hears Case of NY Judge Accused of Letting Lawyer Overbill; Judge May be
Ousted; Blot on Judge's
Character; Fees-flap Judge May
Deny Knowing Rules - Judge Did Not Know Fees Approved For Former
Law School Buddy Were
Too High
|
|
05-04-06 |
|
Lawyers' Fees Contested: NY
Lawyer-Dad Denied Fees in Daughter's Case;Firm Ordered to Return $13
Million in Fees, Faces Malpractice Suit; "Shocking" Lawyer
Misconduct Claims Hold Up Payment of Millions in ExxonMobil Fees
|
|
05-03-06 |
|
Amorous NY Bull Oles
Liability in Attack - Dairy Farmer Could Not Be Held Liable
for
Farmhand injured by Bull
|
|
04-26-06 |
|
Supreme Court Rules in
Property Takeover Case - On Tax Sale, Lack of Proper Notice
|
|
04-20-06 |
|
California
Judge Stripped of Robes for Adjudicating Strip Club Contest and
for
Dishonesty
|
|
04-20-06 |
|
Keep Records Open in
People's Court - Our Opinion: Broward's Secret Docket
Deserves a Quick Death
|
|
04-13-06 |
|
Bad NY Lawyers Ripped
Off Clients for $8.1 Million Last Year |
|
04-09-06 |
|
How He Made His Move
- New Yok Post Reporter Skulduggery; You Need a Real Friend'
Exclusive Excerpts of Scribe's Astonishing Shakedown Bid
|
|
03-24-06 |
|
Barbara Bush's Katrina
Donation Earmarked for Son's Firm
|
|
03-11-06 |
|
The Broken Branch: An Unusual
Lawsuit Takes Congress to Task For Shoddy and Partisan Lawmaking, In
Which A Bill Is Unconstitutionally Being Treated
as Law
|
03-08-06
from
10-09-05
|
|
The Tort Wars: Testing for
Silicosis Comes Under Scrutiny in Congress; The Silcosis rs at
a Turning Point;
|
|
03-03-06 |
|
Dr. Strangelove: MD
Cheats on Girlfriend With Wife, Could Lose Millions |
|
03-03-06 |
|
State Judge
Declares War on U.S. Supreme Court |
02-19-06
|
|
Ghouls Can't Cut & Run -
Body Snatching for Parts |
|
01-13-06 |
|
A Fallen Judge
Rethinks Crime and Punishment - The Appellate Judge who was
caught stealing his ward's trust fund |
|
01-11-06 |
|
Asbestos
Clients Sue Florida Bar for Millions Thousands of Former
Asbestos Clients Who Claim Their Disbarred Miami Lawyer Stole
Millions of Dollars
from Them
Have Sued the Florida Bar.
|
01-05-06
from
10-12-01
|
|
Bankruptcy - No Jury
Trial for New York Firm in Texas Bankrutpcy Case for
Malpractice;
Bankruptcy Could Mean Millions for NY Firm; Client Arrested in
Beating Death of Bankruptcy Lawyer; Pleas Made to Take Judge
Off Bankruptcy
Case; Trustees Looking for Value in Bankruptcies;
High Priced Help;
|
12-30-05
from
12-28-05
|
|
NY Judge Censured for
Appearing on Bench Inebriated: Another Judge Reprimanded for
Drunk Driving; Judge Disciplined for Failing to Report
Arrest for Drunk Driving |
|
12-28-05 |
|
Judge Tosses Restraining
Order Against David Letterman; David Letterman's Lawyers
Want Restraining Order Quashed
|
|
12-28-05 |
|
A Family Feud Sheds
Light on Differences in Probate Practices From State to State
|
|
12-06-05 |
|
Judge Jaqueline Silbermann:
Hubby Sues Judges over Court Scam Perv Sent from
Hosp to Prison; Release of Perv Slated for Today; Pervs Kep; t for Holidays; Bruno Joins Perv War, Assembly to Take Up Issue; 'Dirty Dozen' Sex Fiends Will Stay in Custody for Now Judge to Gov: Spring Sickos, Pataki Rips
Ruling Freeing Pervs from Psycho Hospital
|
|
12-01-05 |
|
Florida Lawyers Sound
off on the State of the Profession
|
11-28-05
|
|
How Court Monitors
Let Politicians Shirk Their Duties |
11-28-05
|
|
The Billable
Hour: Are Its Days Numbered?
|
11-21-05
from
01-29-04 |
|
Maxam's Oath Project:
Vindicated: Activists Slam New York Judges; Golen
Falls Jugde Recuses
Self; Root Unsworn Judges;
Maxam says She is Forced
to Give Up
Her Investigation of the N.Y. Judiciary: Maxam's Oath Project On Judges In The New York State Court System
|
|
11-07-05 |
|
The War on Drug Companies,
Obviously Profitable to Attorneys on Both Sides
Dramatic Disorder in the
Courts; Merck Wins Big in
Vioxx Trial; Pfizer Mounts Grueling Beauty Contest
|
11-04-05
from
09-27-04
|
|
Legislation on
Frivolous Suits: House Penalizes Lawyers for Frivolous Lawsuits
New York City Bar
Fights Bill on Mandatory Sanctions For Frivolous Suits House Votes to Bring
Bite Back to Rule 11- on Sanctions to Include Federal and State Court
|
|
11-01-05 |
|
High Cost of Litigation,
The Fees; The Fix is in; Follow the Money |
|
10-30-05 |
|
ABA Journal
Survey Results Surprise Some Legal Experts - More than half of
Americans are angry and disappointed with the nation’s judiciary, a
new survey done
for the ABA Journal eReport shows.
|
|
10-11-05 |
|
For Certain Attorneys,
Bankruptcy Has Rewards - Conveniently, Lawyers
Can Be First in Line to Collect Before a Company Moves on to
Pre-chapter
11 Debts. |
|
10-11-05 |
|
New Paralegal Service Geared for
Attorneys |
|
09-30-05 |
|
Half of U.S.
Sees ‘‘Judicial Activism Crisis’’
Aba Journal Survey Results Surprise Some Legal Experts
|
|
09-13-05
|
|
Bankruptcy Court
Clerk Accused of Cheating Debtors |
|
09-09-05 |
|
A Legal System
in Shambles in New Orleans |
|
08-27-05 |
|
Judge's Beau Arrested - The
Crime Minister; Double
Shot at Judge Donna Mills; Your Dishonor; Boozy Reverend
'Crossed' Up: Lawyer; Used Judge's Car
for
Getaway, Tag
No. (NY)
"Supreme Court 237"
|
|
09-14-03 |
|
Pols
Target Exes in $$ War; Sweeney Introduces Deadbeat Bill Again
"Jane's Law to Make Failure to Pay Spousal Obligations a Federal
Crime
|
|
07-17-05 |
|
Swift Climb Up the
Ladder, From Lowly Assistant to a Highly Paid Lobbyist |
|
07-12-05 |
|
Rule of Change:
Law Firms Find New Revenue in 'Unbundling' Services, and
Do-it-yourself Clients Can Save Money
|
07-08-05
from
02-14-05 |
|
Terri Shiavo Case -Jeb
Finally Ends Schiavo Probe; Terri Schiavo's Remains Buried in Florida; Probe
Sought in Terri Schiavo 911 Call; Florida Governor Questions
Husband's Reponse to Collapse
Schiavo
Autopsy Report Released, Brain Damage Described as 'Irreversible'; St.
Petersburg Bar Association Honors Judge Greer; Medicare
Reimbursement Key In Schiavo Hospice Stay; Family
Says They Don't Know Where Schiavo's Ashes Will Rest; Protesters
at Ceremony Honoring Schiavo Judge; Ignoring the Law: Terri Schiavo and Activist Judges DeLay
Criticizes Supreme Court Justice; Agency
Says Schiavo Not Abused or Exploited; Majority
Leader Asks House Panel to Review Judges; Judiciary 'Run Amok' Says DeLay; Justice O'Connor Concerned; Justices
Respond to Criticism;
Some
Republicans Critical of Judges' Rulings; Terri is
Cremated No Independent Observer at Autopsy; State House Debate Unusual Coalition; DeLay
Wants Panel to Review Role
of Judges; Even Death
Does Note Quiet Harsh Political Fight; (The Unaccountable
Judiciary) DeLay
Targets Legal System in Schiavo Case; Felos the
Advocate for Death; Jessi
Jackson Lobbies for Parents; Husband Allows Autopsy -Required Under Florida Law on Cremation; Its Effect on Judicial Nominations: Key Jurist Judge
Greer Feel Fury; Casting Angry Eye On Courts Conservatives Prime
For Bench-Clearing Braw In Congress Influenced by Shiavo;
Malpractice Award Spent on Legal Fees;
|
|
06-26-05 |
|
In the Character of a
Village, It's Property vs. Religion |
|
06-26-05 |
|
What's a Picture Worth? --
He Wants $1.6 Mil |
|
06-26-05 |
|
At Party Gaming
Everything is Wild - Giant Gambling Business on the Internet
that US Unable to Stop |
|
06-06-05 |
|
Judges Fume Over
Remedial Program - On Poorly Performing Judges (Mass.) |
|
06-05-05
from
04-20-04
|
|
Vellela Freed After Making Return Trip to Rikers; Court
Enforcers Gave 41g to Their Guy; Velellato be Released;
Official Who Taped In Vellela Case, Back as a Lobyist; Vellela
a Man With
No Appeal: Vellala Back in Jail; Vellala Going Back to Jail: Vellela to Return
to Jail Monday;
Court Order Guy Back to Jail: Velella Case Could Send Four Others Back
to Jail;Vallella's Illegal Release; Guy Will Fight; Guy Headed
Back to Jail; City Investigators Order Review of
the Early Release of Velella: Guy's Friends
in Albany; Vote Releasing Velella May Be
Illegal; Vallella Sits
Out Columbus
Day Parade; Writers Say Freeing Velella
Was Not Intent;
Pataki's Troubled
by Velella's Release; Panel That
Freed
Velella Had
Few Guidelines; Velella
Had Koch, Egan in His
Corner;
City to Probe Velella's Release Bruno Oks Extra
10g for Jailbird Velella;
Velella Pleads
Guilty; Bruno: Velella's Defense
Fund Ok for Defense
of
Charges that
his and
his Father's
Law
Firm Pocketed $137,000
|
|
05-20-05 |
|
Lawyer Who
Brokers Surrogate Births Faces Lawsuit - Court Rules for
Surrogate Mother Who Refused to Give Up Triplets and Father is
Ordered to Pay $1,750 a Month Child Support
|
05-18-05
from
05-12-05
|
|
We The
People' Agrees to Mediation Over Unauthorized Practice of Law: We the People
Pledges to Avoid 'Unauthorized Practice of Law'
|
|
05-15-05 |
|
Pregnant Ma Lands in Jail
for Fighting to Get Kids
|
|
05-15-05 |
|
Who's Preying on
Your Grandparents? - the Truth Behind the Free Seminars,
Protecting Their Financial Assets. Beware of Annuities. |
|
05-13-05 |
|
Firms See Sharp
Rise in Big Money Malpractice Suits |
|
05-10-05 |
|
Law Firms Face
Sharp Rise in Malpractice Suits |
|
05-10-05 |
|
Republican Suggests a Judicial Inspector General - For The
Federal Judiciary To
Watch Over The Courts |
|
05-08-05 |
|
The Fathers' Crusade - For
Stronger Enforcement of Visitation Rights, More Shared-custody
Arrangements, a Better Public and Legal Acknowledgment of
a
Father's Importance in His Child's Life
|
|
05-02-05 |
|
Robertson:
Federal Judges Worse than Al Qaeda |
|
04-26-05 |
|
Judge's Ex Wife
Agrees to Testify Against Jackson Miss. Supreme Court Judge
|
|
04-25-05 |
|
The War On Judges -
Battles of the Bench - The Rhetoric Is Heated. The Political
Will Is Strong. Inside the Right's Campaign to Rein in
Judicial Clout.
|
|
04-22-05 |
|
Lawyers Donated to
Vioxx Judge's Campaign |
|
04-15-05 |
|
John F.
Molloy - The Fraternity: Lawyers and Judges in Collusion |
04-12-05
from
06-30-04
|
|
State Justices Rule
Citizens Can't Take Case to Grand Jury; Appellate Court Ruling
to Let Citizens Seek Grand Jury Probe Put On Hold |
|
03-25-05 |
|
State Courts to
Videotape Judges Actions on Bench Aim Is To Improve Trial
Performance |
|
03-19-05 |
|
Battered
Justice for Battered Women - A case in Us Supreme Court
on
whether due process was violated by the police by their
dismissal or protective order
|
|
03-19-05 |
|
Inside Courts,
Threats Become an Alarming Part of the Fabric |
|
03-17-05 |
|
Bill for
Senator's Engagement Fete Paid by Lobbyist - A State Senator Who
Is Pushing a Bill the Towing Industry Wants Was Treated Last
Week to a Large Engagement Party Courtesy of Lobbyist Who
Represents Tow Truck Drivers See Creative
Accounting for the Funds
|
|
03-11-05 |
|
Civic Groups
Back a Bill to Stop Gerrymandering - Redistricting Used to
Keep Incumbent Power |
|
03-06-05 |
|
Man's Quest Spotlights Law
Library Public Access - |
|
03-01-05 |
|
Judge Sets Curfew for
Attorney; High Profile Lawyer Charged With Laundering Drug Money |
03-14-05
from
08-08-04
|
|
The Vanishing Trials; The
Extensive Report of the National Center for State Courts;
Poll Shows Americans Prefer
Jury to Decide Their Cases Over Judge; Sizable Decline in Jury
Trials Puts Lawyers in Quandary; ABA Plans for Revamping Jury System
|
|
03-01-05 |
|
The Burden of Law -
Schools Today Are Being Strangled by a Ton of Laws, Regulations,
Contracts, Mandates and Rules |
|
02-28-05 |
|
ABA's Judicial
Conduct Proposals Draw Fire - Up for Revision: Rules for
Elections, Gifts
|
|
02-27-05 |
|
Bush's Next Target:
Malpractice Lawyers |
|
02-27-05 |
|
Court Says Sperm Was
Gift; Court: Man Can Sue Over
Lover's Sperm Use |
|
02-25-05 |
|
Judge Robbed of $18,000
in Cash, Wants It Back |
|
02-24-05 |
|
ABA's Judicial
Conduct Proposals Draw Fire - Up for Revision: Rules for
Elections, Gifts
|
|
02-22-05 |
|
Judge
Wins $2.1 Million From Paper in Libel Case |
|
02-15-04 |
|
No Fee For Lawyer
Without Retainer Agreement |
|
02-15-05 |
|
Lawyer's
Widow Says Associate Took Funds, Clients |
|
02-11-05 |
|
Federal Judges vs.
The Will of the People |
|
02-10-05 |
|
House Approves Electronic
ID for the Entire US |
|
02-10-05 |
|
NY
Attorney Fails in Bid to Discharge Fees and Sanctions in
Bankruptcy |
|
02-10-05 |
|
Disabled
Attorney Sues 'Apprentice' Producers Over Bias |
02-09-05
from
01-14-05
|
|
Lawyer-Joke Pair in
Court; No Indictment by Grand Jury - 23 Called Specially: a Celebrity Lawyer Takes on
Case; Pair Arrested for Telling
Lawyer Jokes in
Front of Long Island New York Courthouse |
|
02-05-05 |
|
Federal Judge
Orders Entire Firm to Take Ethics Class |
|
02-04-05 |
|
Politician Joins
Firm, But Who Benefits - Lawyer, Lobbyist, Legislator, All
in One |
02-04-05
from
11-16-04
|
|
The Inside Man - Over
Democrat's Opposition Senate Confirms Gonzales as Attorney
General; Gonzales
Cool During Dem Grilling; The New
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales |
|
02-02-05 |
|
Judicial
Performance Commission Seeks Wider Range of Sanctions in the
State of California |
|
01-31-05 |
|
Pension Pickle - The
Mistake of Failing to Update Pension |
|
01-27-05 |
|
Transsexual Marriage
a Legal Catch-22 |
|
01-26-05 |
|
Making a Fortune by
Wagering That Drug Prices Tend to Rise |
01-25-05
from
10-14-04
|
|
Contingency Fees Taxable to
Client Except for Exemption: Review of Taxes on
Contingency Fees; Lawyers' Fees No Longer
Face Double Tax Under New
Law (such as in civil cases) |
|
01-25-05 |
|
Judge Takes Rap for
Private Sentencing; Court Slams Her Closed-door Justice |
|
01-24-05 |
|
Bar of New York
State - The New York Bar Holds Annual Gathering Which
Coincides With State Court Chief Judges' Meeting from 40 States Hosted by NY Chief
Judge Judith Kaye; State Bar's New Lobbyist Aims to Propose More
Legislation; N.Y. State Bar Draws Fire With Proposal to Change Pro Bono
Definition
|
|
01-24-05 |
|
Fired Public Defender
Sanctioned, Faces Probe for Role in 'Scam' |
|
01-23-05 |
|
Get Asbestos Mess
Out of Court;
NYC Asbestos Mediator's
Unusual
Approach: - - An Arizona Party; City Opts out of Asbestos
Junket; Settlement Talks
in Pool & Spa' Asbestos Victims Wait While
Their Lawyers Take Luxury Junkets
|
|
01-13-05 |
|
US Supreme Court:
Sentencing Guidelines Advisory, Not Mandatory;
New Fight
Over Controlling Punishments Is Widely Seen
|
|
01-13-05 |
|
NY Lawyer's $35
Million Defamation Suit Dismissed |
|
01-12-05 |
|
NY Law Firm Faces
Suit Over Fees, Overstaffing and Conflicts - Fee Overcharges
|
|
01-07-05 |
|
Law
Professor Says He's Innocent Dupe in Nigerian Scam |
|
01-06-05 |
|
House not for Sale, Can
the Government Force You to Sell Your House in the Name of
Development |
|
01-03-04 |
|
Florida. Supreme Court:
Everyone Into the [Jury] Pool - Many do Not Show
Up for Jury Duty
|
|
12-28-04 |
|
"Lord of the Dance"
Choreographing $100 Million Suit Against Lawyer |
|
12-26-04 |
|
The Appearance of
Propriety - The judicial canons have got it wrong.
The real ethical issues facing judges are hidden from view by
Kozinski
|
|
12-24-04 |
|
Report by Atra on
Judicial Hellholes |
|
12-21-04 |
|
Peterson Case Puts
Courtroom Wi-Fi Use on Trial |
|
12-21-04 |
|
Judge Strikes Down
Limit on Poverty Lawyers' Cases |
|
12-19-04 |
|
Judge Dread - Judge Czajka of
Upstate New York Exposed |
|
12-16-04 |
|
Vexatious
Litigant Challenge in the 9th Circuit |
|
12-16-04 |
|
Ex-Military Lawyers
Object to Bush Cabinet Nominee |
|
12-14-04 |
|
The Baumgartner Story:
$175,000 verdict against Baumgartner - More contempt of court
charges pending; |
|
12-13-04 |
|
A Judge for Sale on E-Bay,
Shipping Included, Isn't Laughing; |
|
12-13-04 |
|
Metro Lawyer Fired
Over Ethics Crusade |
|
12-08-04 |
|
A Federal Court Rules that
Universities Can Bar Military Recruiters Without Losing Federal
Grant Money |
|
12-06-04 |
|
Federal Court - Judge's
Decisions are Conspicuously Late |
12-05-05
from
06-04-04
|
|
Lawyers v. Doctors
- Justices Scold Attorneys in Doctor-lawyer Battle
the Florida Supreme Court Was Asked to Cap the Fees That Lawyers
Get for Representing Medical-malpractice Victims; Battle with Constitutional Amendments in Florida; Obligations to All
Humans (Except Trial Lawyers) A proposal to let doctors
refuse to treat trial lawyers and their spouses.
|
|
12-01-04 |
|
NY Lawyers' Disciplinary
Records Published Online |
|
11-29-04 |
|
Scientology
Settlement Puts IRS in a Kosher Pickle - the Question of
Religious
Tuition |
|
11-28-04 |
|
To Break the
Stalemate, Give Judges Less Than Life - Term on the Federal
Bench |
|
11-18-04 |
|
9th Circuit U.S.
Court of Appeals Feels Pro Se Pressure |
11-11-04
from
11-01-03
|
|
Balancing Life and
Practice - Lawyer Who Specializes In Suing Lawyers
Tells What
He Looks For When Suing For Malpractice
|
11-05-04
from
10-25-04
|
|
Judicial Races
Get Meaner - Why Should Judges be Elected; Special Interest
in Judicial Elections
|
|
11-05-04 |
|
Ruling May
Limit Lawyer-Press Dealings - No Protection From Suit |
|
11-02-04 |
|
The Ninth Circuit's
Interim Report: Task Force on Self-Represented Litigants |
|
10-30-04 |
|
A Night at the
Opera, Then a Night in Jail- for Nonpayment of Alimony |
|
10-39-04 |
|
Standing in a Flu
Line? For Starters, Blame the Lawyers |
10-16-04
from
10-29-02
|
|
Judge Baron; Disrobed Judge
Finishing Sentence at Dress Store; Jailed New York Ex Judge Baron
Gets Furlough; $1Million Pension - for
Brooklyn Judge
In Jail
|
|
10-08-04 |
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Parents Organize
Fight Over Custody Laws
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10-05-04 |
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In Plain Sight - Did Law
Firm Fail to See |
09-30-04
from
04-09-04 |
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Justice Scalia Says Some Judges
Displaying Too Much Power; Scalia Learns Lesson from
Erasure; Marshal Defends Erasure of Scalia Speech; Scalia's Tape Tactics at
Issue- Experts Question Legal Basis for Confiscation Apparently on Justice's
Orders
of Recordings
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09-30-04
from
08-08-04
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Divorced Parents
Move, and Custody Gets Trickier |
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09-29-04 |
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Young Lawyers Back
From Iraq Struggle With Memories, Question War |
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09-26-04 |
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A Thin Blue Lie,
Admitted at Last - The lawyer confessed that he had provided the
description of the killers, and that it had been a lie
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09-20-04
from
08-05-04
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Rules on Gifts for Judges
Get Overhaul; Full Financial Disclosure Should be Rule for Judges;
Judges Getting Disclosure Data Deleted - GAO Cites 661 Requests to
Withhold Information From Ethics Act Reports |
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09-03-04 |
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Judicial Races -Veteran
Judges' Losses Reflect Political Trends Judicial Elections
Aren't What They Used to Be in Miami-Dade County
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08-28-04 |
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Ethical
Questions Raised on Legal Fee From Widow |
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07-23-04 |
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Candidate Admits to
Bribery Incident -The County Judge Contender Said
He Spurned a Bribe When He Was a Prosecutor, but it Cost Him His
Job.
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