SAN ANTONIO – The federal government is investigating whether one of the high-profile attorneys involved in BP oil spill litigation falsified his client list in order to qualify for the plaintiffs’ steering committee.
If you go to a good university and really apply yourself, you can get a decent education. On the other hand, you also can emerge from the groves of academe with less smarts than you started with.
One of the many advantages that being president confers is the opportunity to shape the judiciary�potentially for decades to come�through lifetime appointments to the federal bench.
People often ask me if some of the more bizarre stories I've shared about the criminal and civil justice systems are really true. Trust me�they are.
When you struggle with accepting responsibility for things that go wrong in your life, it helps to have a whipping boy � a patsy, a fall guy, a scapegoat, someone to blame.
In a recent column, I discussed the often-outrageous attorney fee claims in class action lawsuits, where lawyers pocketed huge sums while achieving little, if anything, for the consumers in whose names they waged war in the legal trenches.
Caldwell (D) BATON ROUGE, La. (Legal Newsline)-Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell is back in the national spotlight for the second time this year, capturing headlines across the nation.
Newton Ten years ago, Toshiba made headlines across the country when it reached a shocking $2.1 billion settlement in a class action lawsuit filed against it in 1999.
Peirce CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Pittsburgh-based law firm and a West Virginia physician were part of an intricate web of deceit that reached as far as Texas and led to big money for all, say their accusers in a civil fraud lawsuit.
Jones (R) Well, now we know. To no surprise, the biggest government boondoggle in modern times was narrowly passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, thanks to some good old-fashioned horse trading.
