A personal injury law firm has filed a lawsuit blaming TD Bank for its loss of about $146,000 in a check fraud scam.
Aug 29, 2024 12:19 PM CDT
Public defenders and prosecutors are among about 250 government attorneys who went on strike Monday in California’s Sacramento County following two years without a contract.
Aug 27, 2024 12:31 PM CDT
The former chief financial officer of the now-collapsed Girardi Keese law firm in Los Angeles asked his former fiancee to flee to the Bahamas with him in 2022, she testified Tuesday in the embezzlement trial of disbarred lawyer Tom Girardi.
Aug 21, 2024 11:09 AM CDT
A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete agreements, finding that the agency exceeded its authority with a rule that would have voided contracts that bar workers from moving to rival employers.
Aug 21, 2024 10:30 AM CDT
A former bankruptcy judge has been sanctioned for trying to avoid a deposition by submitting to an unauthorized off-the-record interview with the law firm that employed his romantic partner.
Aug 19, 2024 12:37 PM CDT
An in-house lawyer who reported suspected wrongdoing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission can’t recover a whistleblower award, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Aug 19, 2024 10:31 AM CDT
In the wake of last week’s landmark federal court decision that deemed Google an illegal monopoly, Google’s foes are stepping up efforts to craft a legal case for something unthinkable until recently: the internet giant’s breakup.
Aug 16, 2024 11:15 AM CDT
A public defender representing disbarred lawyer Tom Girardi in his embezzlement trial asked a former accounting employee Tuesday about a secret bank account being used by other lawyers at his now-closed law firm.
Aug 14, 2024 12:47 PM CDT
A Chicago lawyer sentenced to prison for bank embezzlement Tuesday interrupted the judge throughout the proceeding and claimed that the case against him “is an evil that’s going on here.”
Aug 14, 2024 10:30 AM CDT
Updated: A lawyer accused of misappropriating up to $282 million from as many as 60,000 debt-relief clients, either through intentional or “grossly negligent” conduct, had employed a disbarred lawyer alleged to be running the operation.
Aug 13, 2024 3:49 PM CDT
A federal judge’s ruling that Google broke the law to maintain a monopoly in search has dealt a blow to one of Big Tech’s main arguments against regulation: that America’s antiquated antitrust laws aren’t flexible enough to address the fast-changing nature of tech innovation.
Aug 8, 2024 1:05 PM CDT
The Texas Supreme Court is seeking comment on a proposal that would allow qualified nonlawyers to provide some legal services to low-income Texans.
Aug 7, 2024 10:19 AM CDT
Most major practice areas experienced growth in the second quarter of 2024, leading to “a significant resurgence in the financial health of law firms,” according to the Thomson Reuters Institute, which released its latest Law Firm Financial Index.
Aug 6, 2024 9:04 AM CDT
A federal court has found that Google illegally abused its market power to quash competition in internet search. The ruling hands the Justice Department its biggest victory in more than two decades in limiting the power of Big Tech companies to control and dominate the huge markets they have created.
Aug 5, 2024 3:15 PM CDT
The Justice Department on Friday sued TikTok and its China-based owner ByteDance, saying the popular video app had violated a children’s privacy law by collecting data on millions of Americans younger than 13.
Aug 2, 2024 3:20 PM CDT