By Julie Kay | January 13, 2015
Akerman has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle an FDIC lawsuit alleging negligence by the law firm in its handling of a North Bay Village real estate deal for the failed Peninsula Bank of Englewood.
By Julie Kay | January 13, 2015
Dasschinka Storani claims former Fort Lauderdale managing partner Alan Kipnis sexually harassed her, talking about blow jobs and forcing her to give him vitamin shots in the buttocks.
By Julie Kay | January 13, 2015
Prominent litigator Victor Diaz is suing his former longtime law firm, Podhurst Orseck, alleging the Miami firm underpaid him and refuses to open its books to him.
By Joel Stashenko | January 13, 2015
A trial judge's refusal to let an expert witness testify about the nature of defensive wounds may have hindered the self-defense case of a woman who stabbed her husband multiple times, a Third Department panel said.
By Mark Hamblett | January 13, 2015
In a case of first impression on the obligation to disclose "any known trends or uncertainties" in a quarterly report, the Second Circuit said plaintiffs failed to adequately plead scienter in a lawsuit alleging Morgan Stanley concealed its exposure to and losses during the subprime mortgage market meltdown.
By Ben Bedell | January 12, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear the appeal of eight Manhattan property owners who claimed an unconstitutional taking when their lots were rendered less valuable due to the preservation of an elevated railroad track above the lots that eventually became the High Line park.
By Joel Stashenko | January 12, 2015
A grand jury last week decided not to indict a man who had been released on his own recognizance after his arrest for allegedly making threats against police, but the head of the union that represents court officers says that "doesn't change anything" with regard to the reappointment of the judge in the case, whom he called "unfit."
By Max Mitchell | January 12, 2015
The Commonwealth Court has denied a right-to-know request for an email a former supervising grand jury judge sent a prosecutor regarding his opinion of the prosecution of convicted serial child molester Jerry Sandusky.
By Max Mitchell | January 12, 2015
The Pennsylvania ACLU and several media outlets, including the Philadelphia City Paper, are challenging a state law they claim is aimed at silencing convicted felons and those who publish the words of felons.
By Mark Hamblett | January 12, 2015
In an unusual proceeding Friday, the lawyer for convicted terrorist preacher Mustafa Kamel Mustafa used all of his time trying to keep his client out of the ADX Florence or "Supermax" prison in Colorado.
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