Recent Updates
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Law firm mounts suit over Tween buyout
Headline News 07/22/2009A New York law firm is soliciting shareholders to join a class-action lawsuit against Tween Brands Inc. over Dress Barn Inc.'s planned acquisition of the Central Ohio apparel retailer. Levi & Korsinsky LLP said Tuesday it filed a suit in Delaware...
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Analysis: Sotomayor record thin on executive power
Headline News 07/09/2009Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's thin record on the limits of presidential power suggests she will be neither reflexively hostile to broad expansion of a president's authority nor a reliable rubber stamp in support of it.Three cases in particu...
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Lawyers' group: Sotomayor well qualified for court
Headline News 07/07/2009Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor earned a "well-qualified" rating from the American Bar Association on Tuesday as she prepared for Senate hearings next week.The ABA committee that reviewed her qualifications came out with that unanimous rating o...
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Group sends Sotomayor docs to Senate
Headline News 07/01/2009A Puerto Rican legal advocacy group late Tuesday sent a trove of documents from Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's past to the Senate panel considering her nomination. Latino Justice PRLDEF sent the Judiciary Committee more than 350 pages of doc...
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Court to decide Miranda warning expansion
Headline News 06/22/2009The Supreme Court will decide whether a suspect has to be told that he has a right to have a lawyer present during questioning by police. The court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Kevin Dwayne Powell, who was convicted of being a felon in pos...
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Lawyer's gambling with client funds came up lemons
Headline News 06/22/2009A disbarred New Jersey lawyer is headed to state prison for 15 years for blowing $4 million of his clients' money in Atlantic City. Michael P. Rumore, 50, who ran his law practice from the basement of his Lyndhurst home, was supposed to use the money...
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Nationwide, public defender offices are in crisis
Headline News 06/04/2009It wasn't the brightest decision she'd ever made. She admits that. But if she'd had enough money to hire a lawyer she might not have lost six months of her life. Kimberly Hurrell-Harring, a certified nursing assistant and mother of two, had driven 7 ...
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Bankruptcy law firm calls GM home
Headline News 05/29/2009General Motors Corp.'s primary bankruptcy law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is housed in New York in the aptly named GM building. In June 2008, a group of investors purchased the iconic building on Fifth Avenue and three others in a $4 billion ...
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Lawyers in Detroit text case accused of misconduct
Headline News 05/26/2009A lawyer who used a salacious trove of text messages as leverage to settle two lawsuits against ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick for $8.4 million has been charged with ethics violations, along with four attorneys who worked on the deal. Mike Stefani "engage...
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Reed Smith cutting associates’ salaries 10%
Headline News 05/22/2009The Reed Smith law firm said it will cut salaries for all U.S. associates by 10 percent across the board, effective July 1. In an internal memo that was originally leaked to the Web site Abovethelaw.com Wednesday afternoon, managing partner Gregory J...
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Computer Expert Sues Leonard Street Law Firm for $775K
Headline News 05/22/2009A computer expert claims in a lawsuit that Minneapolis law firm Leonard, Street and Deinard owes him $775,000 for storing digital evidence in a case involving the city’s two largest newspapers. Mark Lanterman of Computer Forensic Services said he sto...
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L.A. County courts to close 1 day a month
Headline News 05/20/2009Los Angeles County Superior Court officials announced Tuesday they would shut down court operations one day a month and furlough employees to address a projected $90-million shortfall caused by the state's continuing budget crisis. The county's 600 c...