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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday accused a father and son from Florida of running a fraudulent litigation funding scheme by promising investors returns from financing mass tort litigation they were not actually funding.
A New Jersey state appeals court on Friday upheld the dismissal of an attorney's common law fraud and negligence claims against two law firms for allegedly misrepresenting a debt he owed.
Insurance and civil litigation firm Tyson & Mendes LLP is expanding its presence in California, opening a sixth office in the state, this one in Sacramento.
The U.S. Trustee's Office has urged a New Jersey bankruptcy court to dismiss a Chapter 11 petition from McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's former CFO, who is currently incarcerated for embezzling millions from the firm, because he has stonewalled the trustee's requests for information about his finances.
Jones Foster PA won on a counterclaim for over $100,000 in unpaid legal fees against a pair of former clients this week in Florida federal court, shortly after defeating those clients' malpractice suit last month.
Florida boutique Ball Janik LLP has opened its fifth office in the Sunshine State and named an attorney with tax and construction litigation expertise to lead its new outpost in Tampa, a move that comes after the firm opened an office in Fort Lauderdale earlier this year.
The legal industry lost 2,300 jobs in August, the fourth month in a row of declines, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
At a time when misconduct accusations continue to hover over the U.S. Supreme Court, state court leaders have put forth a strategy to boost trust in local judicial officials that largely calls for them to take on more public-facing roles.
A Second Circuit panel indicated Friday that Donald Trump faces an uphill climb in seeking a new trial after a jury found he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages.
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Philadelphia developer Carl Dranoff has accused the indicted brothers George E. Norcross III, a New Jersey power broker, and Parker McCay CEO Philip A. Norcross of causing him and his company millions of dollars in damages by intimidating and extorting him out of his property development rights in the city of Camden, New Jersey.
Labor and employment firm Fisher Phillips is expanding its California team, bringing in an Epstein Becker Green litigator as a partner in its San Francisco office.
Two law firms, Goldstein & Russell PC and Kelley & Ferraro LLP, have claimed in an appeal to the Sixth Circuit that they were improperly shut out of the $2.13 billion attorney fee pool created by recent national opioid settlements with major pharmaceutical companies and pharmacy chains.
A courtroom face-off over lead stockholder counsel duties in a Delaware Chancery Court case accusing a biopharmaceutical company's directors of insider trading and fiduciary duty breaches got edgy Thursday, after one of the plaintiff-side legal teams contended that the other's case was irreparably hobbled by conflicts of interest.
Kohn Kohn & Colapinto announced Thursday that a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement attorney will join the whistleblower law firm as senior special counsel.
A Colorado Court of Appeals panel on Thursday upheld a $4,000 verdict and $1.2 million in fee awards against an attorney who violated an employment contract when she tried to lure colleagues away from a prominent regional personal injury firm, finding the firm's contract was valid and enforceable.
Rottenstreich Farley Bronstein Fisher Potter Hodas LLP, a trial boutique focusing on matrimonial and business disputes, has added an attorney in New York who will lead the firm's commercial litigation practice, the firm announced Wednesday.
NortonLifeLock and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP again urged the Federal Circuit to overturn a $600 million patent infringement verdict against the company that was in part based on the firm's being held in contempt, with both saying the holding has serious flaws.
A South Florida law firm has urged a federal court to grant it $247,000 for its work in reaching a settlement from the long-running multidistrict litigation over Chiquita Brands International Inc.'s funding of Colombian paramilitaries, saying a fellow attorney waived objections after failing to meet with other lawyers in the case.
Just days after a bankruptcy judge said in court that unsecured creditors in the case of collapsed California debt relief firm Litigation Practice Group will likely receive little to nothing, professionals working on the case filed about $9.1 million in fee requests — enough to use up most of the available cash.
A California state appeals court on Wednesday threw out a $9.5 million malpractice verdict against a Los Angeles-area lawyer and his firm over their handling of a noted burn surgeon's estate, holding that allowing the verdict and penalty to stand would be an 'intolerable burden' on the legal community.
The mother of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was murdered by three white men while jogging in coastal Georgia over four years ago, on Thursday dropped one of her son's killers from a civil suit over his killing and the subsequent investigation.
A Lloyd's of London syndicate is urging the North Carolina Business Court to toss a Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP lawsuit seeking coverage for a 2022 data breach, saying the law firm failed to include three other carriers included on the insurance policy at issue.
Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC grew its alternative dispute resolution team this week with the addition of a retiring New Jersey Superior Court judge joining the firm after a 15-year tenure on the bench presiding over complex business issues and more.
Queens-based construction company Judlau Contracting has launched a $59 million malpractice suit against Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP in New York state court, alleging the firm and a partner in its construction practice of failing to provide adequate representation in two underlying court cases.