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A court order barring two St. Louis tax preparers and their businesses from certain conduct settles a complaint filed against the tax preparers two years ago by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Attorney Tom Birchfield, managing partner of the Louisville office of Atlanta-based Fisher & Phillips LLP, doesn?t take himself too seriously.
The historic downtown Denver brownstone where prominent defense attorney Walter Gerash worked for more than 30 years has been sold for $750,000.
Most of the Triad?s major law firms plan to hold rates steady in 2010, in some cases for the first time in decades, as they recognize that many of their clients may not be willing or able to pay more for legal services in the current economy.
A D.C. judge late Monday dismissed The JBG Cos.'s lawsuit over the proposed convention center hotel, the first major court decision in what has become a tangle of lawsuits and countersuits over the $537 million hotel.
Polsinelli Shughart PC has landed a significant legal account from Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives, the nation?s second-largest Catholic health care system.
A federal judge in Kansas City sentenced a Smithville man on Tuesday to three years and six months in prison for culling $3 million in tax refunds from bogus returns to the Internal Revenue Service.
In October of 2005 when Jim Bingham left Charlotte?s prestigious Robinson Bradshaw Hinson law firm to join May Heavy Equipment as general counsel, the family-owned business was booming. The company had $40 million in revenue and 250 pieces of heavy equipment, including excavators, graders, scrapers, compactors, articulated trucks and bulldozers.
A Travis County court has ordered Lashantae Reeves to repay $21,000 she collected from an Austin-based workers' compensation insurer.
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Remember the TV reality show "Making the Band," which spawned the short-lived boy band O-Town? The show's revenue is at the center of a $60 million suit pitting the bankruptcy estate of a film production company once run by Lou Pearlman -- the infamous boy band manager now in prison for orchestrating a $300 million Ponzi scheme -- against Viacom, MTV and the Sean "Diddy" Combs-controlled companies Bad Boy Films and Bad Boy Records. A Florida federal judge has ruled the suit can go forward.
A one-man campaign against "Ladies Nights" did not get far. The 2nd Circuit has rejected Roy Den Hollander's claim that the Copacabana Nightclub and other establishments were "state actors" who violated the U.S. Constitution by charging men more for admission and drinks than women. Hollander had argued that "Ladies Nights" stem from "40 years of lobbying and intimidation, [by] the special interest group called 'Feminism' [which] has succeeded in creating a customary practice ... of invidious discrimination against men."
A California appeals court on Thursday denied the Pacific Justice Institute's petition for a writ of mandamus to force the state's governor and attorney general to defend Proposition 8 in court, killing the latest attempt by foes of gay marriage to shore up standing for the pending appeal of Chief Judge Vaughn Walker's July ruling. A motions panel at the 9th Circuit ordered the Prop 8 proponents to "include in their opening brief a discussion of why this appeal should not be dismissed for lack of Article III standing."
The Department of Justice is stepping up its investigation into the office of controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a nationally known opponent of illegal immigration. DOJ attorneys filed a complaint Thursday in federal court, alleging that Arpaio and his staff have obstructed their investigation into whether the sheriff's office is discriminating based on national origin in its police practices and jail operations. A lawyer for the sheriff's office said he has tried to cooperate with the Justice Department.
In August, David Van Zandt, dean of Northwestern University School of Law, was named the next president of The New School in New York. But he's only the latest in this summer of love. At least five law school deans were either named to the post of president or assumed it this summer.
Check out some of the latest posts on the lawjobs.com blog, The Careerist. Some Mostly Good News for Women in the Law Also Checklist for Summer's End: How to maximize what remains of the season Plus Big Bucks for Big Law in Big Divorces
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Statutory consumer-protection laws are rapidly displacing common law tort principles. Those behind this disturbing trend say that these lawsuits (typically class actions) represent a ?different avenue of relief for a different type of injury.? Most admit, however, that they are actually running consumer class actions for ?risk of injury? because personal-injury class action torts are too difficult to certify.
When San Diego County Superior Court Judge John Einhorn polled jurors for their votes in a wrongful-death case in 2006, he forgot to get one man's answer on two of 13 questions. That might not seem like a big deal, but it was, leading to a California Supreme Court oral argument on Feb. 24 to decide whether the judge's error -- which wasn't noticed by counsel on either side at the time -- requires a new trial.
Class action waiver in charge card agreement could not be enforced where doing so would grant card issuer de facto immunity from antitrust liability by removing plaintiffs' only reasonably feasible means of recovery (considering, as matter of first impression in circuit, enforcement of mandatory arbitration clause in commercial contract that also contains class action waiver, but avoiding question whether class action waiver provisions are void or enforceable per se).
In both Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 proceedings, creditors may be granted derivative standing to bring action pursuant to §§ 544(b) and 550(a) on behalf of bankruptcy estate for avoidance of fraudulent or preferential transfers (confirming continued vitality of practice after Hartford Underwriters Ins. Co. v. Union Planters Bank, N.A., 530 U.S. 1 (2000); bankruptcy appellate-standing doctrine does not apply to second layer of appeal, from district court to court of appeals, where party who appealed bankruptcy court order to district court had appellate standing; instead, general rule applies, namely that party must be aggrieved by judicial action from which party appeals.
Even a tiny law firm whose bread is buttered by fattening and relatively recession-proof patent litigation has had to lay off lawyers. So what's the deal with cutting lawyers at a firm that does IP when most every layoff has been blamed on a slowdown in corporate work?
Barry Bonds' trainer may be heading to court for a much-publicized appearance, but the only suspense will come from the prosecutors. Since Judge Susan Illston excluded key government evidence last week, legal observers have been guessing as to whether Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Parrella and his team will ask the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to step in, which would push back the perjury trial for months.
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