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 Milorad “Rod” Blagojevich has been charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and solicitation of bribery. The six attorneys are Michael Di Natale, Aaron Goldstein, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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 taken out of context. The 23-year city employee adamantly denied allegations from a city judge that her words were racist and insulting to the predominantly black [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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 holdeover from the Eliot Spitzer administration. Maloney, a senior West Wing advisor to the Clinton Administration, will become a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 27, 2008
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 of an ambitious strategy by Erwin Chemerinsky, a renowned constitutional law scholar and dean of the new school… to attract Ivy League-caliber students to the first [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 26, 2008
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 officials that other firms backed his scam deals: As the U.S. Attorneys Office in Manhattan tells it, [Dreier] would lie his way into an accounting firm’s or [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 26, 2008
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, the incoming White House chief of staff, has hired W. Neil Eggleston, a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton. Eggleston and Emanuel briefly served together in the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 19, 2008
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 claims, but it’s not going to be billion-dollar litigation,” says Columbia Law professor John C. Coffee. “This is medium-sized litigation that will probably go to relatively small [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 19, 2008
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 wiretaps that prosecutors say record Blagojevich scheming to deal President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat for campaign cash or a plum job. Genson told an Illinois House [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 11, 2008
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 owes more than $500,000 in unpaid legal bills to Winston. Mr. Blagojevich racked up millions of dollars in legal fees over several years but stopped paying the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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 related to her wrongful termination suit against News Corporation. The good news is, that law firm is Dreier LLP. Which as of this week, depending on [...]
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