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Former New York State chief judge Judith S. Kaye has joined Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom as of counsel. Kaye, 70, who left the Court of Appeals in December…
February 17, 2009Read More
A lawyer facing criminal charges for advising 10 nurses they could quit their jobs at a Long Island, NY nursing facility gave “objectively reasonable” advice and cannot be prosecuted, a…
January 20, 2009Read More
A federal appeals court is examining a prosecutor’s odd explanation for striking the only black person from a jury on drug & weapons case — that she was obese. Defendant…
January 14, 2009Read More
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that former lawyer Steven F. Goldman should be denied almost $400,000 in fees. Goldman won a $2.4 million medical malpractice case, but…
January 7, 2009Read More
The Lakin Law Firm has been renamed LakinChapman LLC, and former Appellate Court Judge Charles Chapman will join Brad Lakin as a named minority partner in the Wood River, Illinois…
January 5, 2009Read More
In more overbilling news, Wilmer Pickering Hale & Dorr has lost a bid to toss out a fraud claim in a $7 million lawsuit, that alleges the law firm overbilled…
January 5, 2009Read More
An associate who was fired from Kirkland & Ellis in 2004, after admitting he attempted to arrange a meeting “to engage in an oral sexual act” with what he thought…
December 31, 2008Read More
Austin, Texas-based appellate boutique Alexander Dubose Jones & Townsend is reducing its billing rates in current hourly-fee cases by 10% on January 1st. Douglas Alexander, a partner in the 13-lawyer…
December 31, 2008Read More
The DC Court of Appeals has rejected former judge Roy L. Pearson Jr.’s request for a new trial regarding his highly publicized $54 million lawsuit against a neighborhood dry cleaners…
December 18, 2008Read More
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