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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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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