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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…

Detroit’s Top Lawyer Resigns After “Ghetto Court” Remark

Detroit’s Top Lawyer Resigns After “Ghetto Court” Remark

Attorney Kathleen Leavey, head of the City of Detroit Law Department, has resigned after referring to one of the city’s courts as “a ghetto court.” Leavey said her comment was…

New York Gubernatorial Aide to Join Kirkland & Ellis

New York Gubernatorial Aide to Join Kirkland & Ellis

Sean Patrick Maloney, the first deputy secretary to New York Governor David Paterson, resigned this week, effective at the end of the year. Maloney, who is openly gay, was a…

A Top-Ranked Law School with Free Tuition. No, Really.

A new law school is opening at the University of California Irvine next fall. And it’s waiving tuition for three years to lure top applicants: The financial carrot is part…

Marc Dreier: World’s Most Amazing Lawyer/Liar

Bloomberg has a story about the sheer chutzpah that disgraced lawyer Marc Dreier used to scam investors and charities out of $380 million. My favorite part describes how Dreier convinced…

Obama Aides Lawyer Up for Blago Probe

Obama Aides Lawyer Up for Blago Probe

Top aides to President-elect Barack Obama are lawyering up, in anticipation of questioning in the probe of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich’s alleged attempt to sell Obama’s vacant Senate seat. Rahm Emanuel,…

Madoff Victims — Sue All You Want, The Money’s Gone

Madoff Victims — Sue All You Want, The Money’s Gone

Lawyers ramping up to try to recover client’s investment cash squandered by indicted New York investor Bernard Madoff aren’t expecting to get back very much. “There are going to be…

Blago’s Lawyer to Challenge “Illegal” Wiretaps

Blago’s Lawyer to Challenge “Illegal” Wiretaps

Indicted Governor Rod Blagojevich’s attorney will challenge the lawfulness of the court-ordered wiretaps offered as evidence in federal corruption allegations against the Illinois Democrat. Chicago attorney Ed Genson criticized FBI…

Blagojevich Owes Winston Strawn Over Half A Million Dollars

We reported yesterday that embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was no longer using Chicago’s Winston Strawn to defend him against Federal charges. Today the Chicago Business News reports that Blagojevich…

Regan Sued By Dreier

Regan Sued By Dreier

We have good news and bad news for Judith Regan, the former celebrity biography publisher. The bad news is, she’s being sued by her former law firm for unpaid fees…

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