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By “non-economic damages,” the law means real but intangible losses that affect you personally. In other words, because of your injury, your life is not as it was. Noneconomic damages can include: What are non-economic [...]

Roughly 200,000 plaintiffs will split $73 million in compensation for damages from the 2014 Elk River chemical spill. Roughly 20 law firms will split nearly a third as much in attorneys’ fees. $22 million in [...]

Reciprocal discipline follows a 30-day suspension and 18 months probation handed down by the Arizona Supreme Court. He was disciplined over his representation of a client and her two children following an automobile accident Arizona-based [...]

The Supreme Court's decision followed Brown's admission that he took hydrocodone in January for pain relief  following a fall and after an unfavorable evaluation by the Professionals' Wellness Evaluation Center (PWEC) LA Atty Paul E. Brown [...]

Officials made contact with Iowa County District Attorney Larry E. Nelson who they determined was driving while impaired. The OnStar alert had came after he accidentally pushed the button in his 2017 Mercedes Benz, according to a [...]

The Florida Supreme Court will weigh in on a court-appointed referee's recommendation that Fort Lauderdale attorney Stephen Rakusin be disbarred for his role in a 'baseless lawsuit' disputing attorneys fees. Disbarment Recommended for Lawyer Stephen [...]

The price gouging law will be in place until Governor Roy Cooper lifts the state of emergency. Stein also warned storm victims to be vigilant when repairing their homes after the storm and look out [...]

Former attorney Peter Kruzynski, who was sentenced in July to prison for engaging in sex with a minor, has also been suspended from law for 15 years. The Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel recommended the [...]

" According to the article, Grubb's former client, Amanda France, had filed a lawsuit accusing Grubb of fraud, breach of duty, and failure to provide competent services. The article went on to describe the allegations [...]

The Post reports that Skadden was paid $4.6 million, a fact Manafort did not reveal, while Ukrainian officials said they paid $12,000 for the report. Former Skadden partner, Greg Craig may face charges related to Manafort-linked [...]

Jay Goldberg is mad that he was not tapped for a White House position and his soon-to-be-published memoir may violate attorney-client privilege, says President Donald Trump, who was represented by the New York attorney in [...]

A Connecticut attorney reportedly released a former client’s psychiatric records in an online court filing because he was mad that she sued him for malpractice following his representation in a condominium association matter. Attorney Jason [...]

A new bill before the U.S House of Representatives would prohibit the federal courts from charging for public documents. The Electronic Court Records Reform Act would require that documents downloaded from the PACER database be [...]

The Indiana Supreme Court privately reprimanded an Evansville attorney Friday after he failed to act with reasonable diligence and promptness in communicating with clients whose homestead was burned in an act of vandalism that appeared [...]

Florida Supreme Court has suspended Marcellus until Jan. 20, 2020. The court didn’t go for disbarment despite stating Marcellus’ connection to the forgery and the foreclosure fallout from it. Palm Beach County Circuit Court Judge [...]

Together Kaye & Lenchner partners Mitchell Lenchner, 60, of Great Neck, and Corey Kaye, 60, of Seaford, face 29 counts of larceny in varying degrees and 1 count of first-degree scheme to defraud Two disbarred [...]

Page claims the FBI could not prove collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential campaign before Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed.In May 2017, Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as special [...]

Since Flynn’s plea, prosecutors had repeatedly delayed his sentencing as the investigation continued. But in the latest filing, they say they no longer need more time, suggesting that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan set a [...]

A new lawsuit filed on behalf of North Tampa MHP and Sunbuild Phase I, another company headed by Philipp, says Hosler’s delays in the case cost the company and led to “severely excessive interest and [...]

Citing multiple sources, CNN reported that Kavanaugh has hired Beth Wilkinson, a founding partner of Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz, a trial and litigation law firm in Washington, D.C. Judge Kavanaugh hires attorney Beth Wilkinson amid [...]

Gotro’s dues, which were due on June 1, have not been paid, a State Bar spokesperson said Tuesday.She was given a three-month grace period in which to pay and was sent several notices, but the [...]

After defending Angelo "Fat Ange" Lutz, who spent seven years in federal prison as a "mob associate" convicted in 2001 of bookmaking and racketeering, Mr. Warren became one of Philadelphia's preeminent criminal defense attorneys. Christopher [...]

Jason Lee Van Dyke, who represents the far-right Proud Boys, was arrested for filing a false police report—but he says someone broke into his truck, stole his guns, and framed him. Lawyer Jason Lee Van Dyke [...]

Johnson spent weeks out of his office, using his office credit card to travel to places including the Galapagos Islands, off the western coast of South America, and to casino complexes around the United States. [...]

As a defense lawyer, Lato represented former Suffolk Conservative Party boss Edward Walsh, who was convicted of illegally pocketing more than $200,000 in salary and overtime in his job as a lieutenant in the county [...]

Wolin wasn’t a top lawyer for Lego, like he told staff and patients at an Edmonds rehab facility last year. He told the clinic that Lego would pay for his treatment. He racked up an [...]

A disbarred Boca Raton attorney Gary Kovacs has been charged with fraud after his former employer claimed he pocketed more than $193,000 in client checks that were supposed to go to the law firm. In [...]

Last year in Mississippi, 516 bar complaints were filed against attorneys, most of whom work in one- to two-person practices doing everyday litigation — divorces, estates, personal injury, criminal defense. The vast majority of complaints [...]

More than 30 lawsuits blame Pennsylvania-based Armstrong World Industries, once Lancaster's largest employer, for exposing workers to chemicals that led to sickness, suffering and death. But they’ve been pursued by a lawyer who, a judge [...]

Rudd had claimed that his wife died in a car accident; prosecutors said the crash was staged to support Rudd’s life with another woman. Rudd collected $120,000 from life insurance policies after his wife’s death. [...]

“Performance on the written portion of the bar exam tracks MBE performance,” NCBE president Judith Gundersen told Law.com. “Pass rates will be lower in most jurisdictions. Already some jurisdictions have completed grading and have released [...]

South Carolina’s chief justice, Donald Beatty, said in a memo on Sunday that circuit court and family court proceedings in all of the state’s 46 counties will resume Monday if county government offices are operating [...]

Lerach was a partner at Lerach, Coughlin, Stoia, Geller, Rudman & Robbins of San Diego when he was indicted. The kickback payments reportedly took place previously, when he was a name partner at the law [...]

A federal appeals court has upheld a federal judge’s decision to deny as “grossly excessive” a request for more than $900,000 in attorney fees based on a $100,000 punitive award. 'Outrageously excessive' requests for attorney [...]

The billing records are considered public information under Texas statutes passed in the wake of a scandal over tobacco fees that sent former Attorney General Dan Morales to prison. Most of the contracts examined by [...]

In seeking confirmation to serve as U.S. ambassador to Romania, Seyfarth Shaw partner Adrian Zuckerman could face questions about decade-old sexual harassment claims related to his time at Lowenstein Sandler. Trump Ambassador Pick Adrian Zuckerman [...]

Greg Craig, former president Barack Obama‘s very first White House counsel, has retained a lawyer of his own. The move comes as federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) weigh charges against [...]

They run from New Jersey, where about a third of residents are Catholic, to West Virginia, which has a 6 percent Catholic population. Last week, Pope Francis ordered an investigation into allegations that a West [...]

The criminal complaint against him says he took more than $35,000 from the estate of a woman who died in 2009 and used it for gambling and for business and personal expenses. The complaint also [...]

Cognitive biases, like implicit biases, can influence how we view people. Cognitive biases help explain why we make poor decisions based on unconscious, flawed predispositions.  “Familiarity bias” is one type of cognitive bias. Familiarity bias [...]

#MeToo scrutiny of the federal judiciary, the Judicial Conference on Thursday proposed significant changes in its code of conduct and rules to make it easier for employees to file complaints, and harder for perpetrators to [...]

A new Ninth Circuit ruling confronts the clash between federal and state marijuana laws. "If [Charles] Lynch was not compliant with state law, he is not covered by the rider and is subject to the [...]