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Florida Default Law Group Under Investigation by Florida AG

Florida Default Law Group Under Investigation by Florida AG

Tampa-based Florida Default Law Group, one of the largest foreclosure firms in the state, is under investigation by the office of Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum for possibly “fabricating and/or…

Florida Bar Extends Investigation Beyond Rothstein

Florida Bar Extends Investigation Beyond Rothstein

35 former senior attorneys from the defunct Fort Lauderdale firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler are being investigated by the Florida Bar. In November, Scott Rothstein, the firm’s co-founder, was disbarred, then…

Six Lawyers Hired for Blagojevich Defense Team

Six Lawyers Hired for Blagojevich Defense Team

Six Chicago lawyers have been hired by the Blagojevich defense team as pretrial contract lawyers, to examine the 3.5 million pages of documents provided by the prosecution. Former Illinois Governor…

Update: Ashcroft Forms Nationwide Law Firm

Update: Ashcroft Forms Nationwide Law Firm

This week we reported that former Attorney General John Ashcroft would found a new law firm. Today the move is official. Ashcroft and a group of former federal prosecutors will…

US Attorney’s Offices Understaffed

Newsday reports that federal prosecutions of white-collar crime and securities fraud have dropped off from higher levels earlier in the decade, largely because US attorney’s offices in New York are…

Prosecutor: No Fat Jurors

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…

Lawyers Vie for Top Fed Prosecutor Slot

Lawyers Vie for Top Fed Prosecutor Slot

Four lawyers, including two with ties to the US attorney’s office in Birmingham, have applied to become the next top federal prosecutor in the 31-county Northern District of Alabama. Wednesday…

Dreier Indicted in Federal Court (UPDATE)

Dreier Indicted in Federal Court (UPDATE)

Federal prosecutors have charged Marc Dreier, founder of Manhattan’s Dreier LLP, with theft in connection with his alleged attempt to secure a loan by impersonating another lawyer in Toronto. Dreier…