Recent Updates
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Bromwell pleads guilty in corruption case
Headline News 07/24/2007[##_1L|1121919364.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]Once one of the leading Democrats in the General Assembly, former state Sen. Thomas L. Bromwell Sr. pleaded guilty this morning to accepting bribes from a Baltimore construction company executi...
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Judge criticizes fees in Sears case
Headline News 07/23/2007[##_1L|1225811536.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]A North Carolina judge has harshly criticized the settlement of a class-action lawsuit in which a Wilmington lawyer and colleagues received $950,000 in fees while consumers who Sears overcharge...
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EMU's law firm bill to total almost $450,000
Headline News 07/21/2007The total bill for an independent investigation into a campus cover-up of a student's murder at Eastern Michigan University is nearly $450,000, the lead investigator confirmed Thursday. The financial fallout of the botched handling of information in ...
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Blagojevich campaign fund pays $1.1 million to law firm
Headline News 07/21/2007A Chicago law firm has received more than $1.1 million in legal fees from Governor Rod Blagojevich's (bluh-GOY'-uh-vitchz) campaign fund since 2006.So far this year, the governor's campaign has paid Winston and Strawn more than $163,000.The campaign ...
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Court demands care for Agent Orange victims
Headline News 07/20/2007[##_1L|1081260842.jpg|width="130" height="132" alt=""|_##]The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was wrong to deny retroactive benefits to certain Vietnam veterans suffering from Agent Orange-related leukemia, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals r...
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Tennessean Is Selected for No. 2 Job at Justice
Headline News 07/18/2007[##_1L|1261638389.jpg|width="150" height="128" alt=""|_##]The Bush administration has named a veteran federal prosecutor from Tennessee as the acting deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, an agency still reeling from the uproar over last...
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LA judge says Jackson must pay law firm $250000
Headline News 07/17/2007A Superior Court judge on Friday signed a judgment that awarded $216,837 along with $39,177 in interest to the Torrance firm of Ayscough & Marar, according to court records. Jackson’s attorney, Marshall Brubacher, agreed in principle to the judgm...
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Decision could pave way for class action against Dell
Headline News 07/12/2007[##_1L|1324578279.jpg|width="180" height="122" alt=""|_##]A decision expected Friday by the Supreme Court of Canada could open the door to a Quebec class-action lawsuit against Dell Computer Corp. The case - which pits Dell against a Quebec consumer ...
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Pro bono work costs Seattle schools plenty
Headline News 07/11/2007[##_1L|1031671476.jpg|width="100" height="122" alt=""|_##]For 200 years, Americans have built our democracy with the growth of universal public school education. Public schools are gathering places for democracy. They take in all children, from diffe...
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Big Tort Lawyer Turns State's Evidence
Headline News 07/10/2007[##_1L|1285247730.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]Federal prosecutors are closing in on two titans of the class action bar, Melvyn Weiss and William Lerach, after one of their former law partners pleaded guilty to scheming to make secret payme...
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California law firm repays excess fees to Nevada
Headline News 07/09/2007[##_1L|1207426755.jpg|width="180" height="128" alt=""|_##]A Sacramento, Calif., law firm accused of collecting nearly $100,000 in excess fees for advice relating to a college savings program in Nevada has repaid the money to the state. The Orrick fir...
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$20 Million Trial Involving Iverson Goes to Jury
Headline News 07/07/2007[##_1L|1193016994.jpg|width="120" height="80" alt=""|_##]A federal jury began deliberations Thursday in a $20 million lawsuit against Denver Nuggets guard Allen Iverson over a 2005 nightclub fight that two patrons say was sparked by Iverson's entoura...