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Client's Related Domestic-Violence Case Is Fair Game in Suing for Divorce Fees
Mention of your work on a divorce client's related domestic-violence case is relevant and admissible when you're suing him for fees due, despite its potential negative effect on the jury, a state appeals court rules.Methodology: This Is How We Do It
How do we find out how much the highest-paid general counsel make?Former fiance runaway bride files countersuit
ATLANTA AP - Saying that his personal and private life was "virtually destroyed" by runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks' pre-wedding flight to New Mexico, former fiance John Mason filed a countersuit against her for emotional distress on Friday.The lawsuit says that Mason "today, carries the scars of Wilbanks' bizarre behavior and is still the subject of national media attention, humiliation and embarrassment.Artists Rights Enforcement Corp. v. Haskins
Suit Against Heir of Singer Advances; 1984 Agreement Between Singer, Plaintiff At IssueDefense Win in 'Apology Note' Med-Mal Case
A Pennsylvania jury has returned a defense verdict in a failure-to-diagnose case brought by a woman who later died of colon cancer at the age of 81. Prior to the suit, gastroenterologist William Mahood had written a letter to Meye Blom in which he apologized that a colonoscopy had failed to identify her ultimately fatal tumor. "I tried my best but clearly missed this tumor. I hope you can forgive me," he wrote. Mahood's attorney said his client didn't write the letter "to prevent litigation."View more book results for the query "*"
New Century trustee files suit against KPMG, alleges $1B in damages
The trustee of the failed New Century Financial Corp. has filed two lawsuits alleging at least $1 billion in damages against KPMG LLP and KPMG International for failing to perform duties as outside auditors to the company. According to the suit, KPMG LLP failed to serve as a watchdog to aggressive accounting methods that forced New Century to restate its financial reports. By then, outstanding repurchase requests had reached $8 billion, and the stock price of New Century, which had run out of financing options, plummeted 90%.Former Guantanamo lawyer heading to trial on Monday
NORFOLK, Va. AP - A Navy lawyer charged with passing classified information about Guantanamo Bay detainees to an unauthorized person will go on trial Monday in a military court, the Navy announced Thursday.Lt. Cmdr. Matthew M. Diaz, who was stationed at the U.S. base in Cuba for six months, could face more than 36 years in prison if convicted during his general court-martial at Norfolk Naval Station.Estate Planning and Philanthropy
Conrad Teitell, a principal at Cummings & Lockwood in Stamford, Conn., writes that a nifty private letter ruling recently affirmed a long-standing published letter ruling, which the Internal Revenue Service unsuccessfully tried to disavow in 2002.Spears avoids hit-and-run trial by paying for fender-bender; still faces 1 charge
LOS ANGELES AP - Hit and run ... then pay as you go.Britney Spears is no longer facing hit-and-run charges since she paid off the other car's driver in the fender-bender, but she still has to deal with one count of driving without a license, a judge ruled Thursday.Spears was not required to attend the hearing on the misdemeanor charges stemming from an Aug.Tishman v. The Associated Press
Constructive Discharge Claim in ADEA Lawsuit Dismissed as Based on Conjecture, SpeculationTrending Stories
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