A superseding indictment unsealed against celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti charges him with attempting to extort tens of millions of dollars from Nike but drops conspiracy charges in the case.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Baltimore lawyer against the Southern Poverty Law Center, finding the civil rights group did not defame him when it exposed his ties to a neo-Nazi group through a “hate map.”
Read moreAn investigation that found human error caused the leak of California State Bar exam topics this past July also revealed the agency was ill-equipped to handle the fallout.
Read moreThe public impeachment inquiry hearings that begin Wednesday will pit a Democratic attorney who built his reputation as a federal mob and securities fraud prosecutor against a Republican House Oversight investigator who helped steer probes of the Obama administration.
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A federal judge Tuesday restrained the federal government from blocking asylum seekers’ access to attorneys when interviewed about their fear of being returned to Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols – also known as the “Remain in Mexico” – policy.
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Alan Dershowitz brought counterclaims Thursday against the prominent lawyer for two of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers before the ink on the lawyer’s defamation suit was even dry.
Read moreThe Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved a controversial nominee to the Second Circuit over objections from Democrats about his reluctance to answer questions about issues he worked on while serving as a lawyer in the White House.
Read moreWeeks into a blockade against administration officials cooperating in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice said requests for testimony will not be considered legally valid unless a government lawyer sits in the interview.
Read moreThe Kobre & Kim law office sued the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in federal court for information on its allegedly illegal gag order about a $16 million fine against Kraft Foods for manipulating commodities markets.
Read moreUpon hearing concerns from the top Ukraine adviser about President Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president, White House lawyer John Eisenberg proposed moving a transcript of the call to a private server and restricting access to it, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Read moreThe Senate on Thursday approved a University of Louisville law professor to a seat on a federal court in Kentucky, despite the American Bar Association deeming him not qualified for the position based on a lack of trial experience.
Read moreA federal judge Tuesday awarded Prison Legal News $1.2 million in attorneys’ fees and costs for its successful, 8-year-old lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections for refusing to allow the monthly publication in its prisons.
Read moreJacqueline Kent Cooke, daughter of the late Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, claims The Daily Mail, The Morning Call and G/O Media dba Jezebel defamed her by claiming she “pled guilty to and/or was convicted of an anti-Semitic physical assault on a Jewish lawyer in New York City,” in New York County Supreme Court.
Read moreBallard Partners, the firm dubbed “the Most Powerful Lobbyist in Trump’s Washington” ended its years-long contract with Turkey’s state-run Halkbank last week, the day after that bank’s indictment in a record-breaking money-laundering scheme.
Read moreThree attorneys nominated by President Donald Trump for seats on District of Columbia courts and a former federal investigator chosen to serve as the D.C. Superior Court’s U.S. marshal sailed through a committee hearing Tuesday on their way to confirmation in the full Senate.
Read moreHalkbank is “now a fugitive” from criminal charges implicating the Turkish state-run bank in a multibillion-dollar money-laundering scheme to Iran, a federal prosecutor announced at a Tuesday morning court hearing.
Read moreThe Chicago Transit Authority Retiree Health Care Trust sued Dilworth Paxson LLP, its former attorney Timothy Anderson, and Greenberg Traurig LLP in Cook County Court, claiming they were negligently involved in “the issuance of $43 million in worthless bonds … to unwitting public pension funds.”
Read moreThe woman who implicated Alan Dershowitz in Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile ring must find new counsel as she sues the famed lawyer for defamation, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreMossack Fonseca, the international law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers scandal, and its two principals are suing Netflix for defamation in Connecticut federal court over the movie “The Laundromat,” which they say depicts them as “ruthless uncaring lawyers who are involved in money laundering, tax evasion [and] bribery.”
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