Lloyd Platt & Company, a London-based law firm is offering unhappy couples what it claims a “must have” Christmas present – divorce gift vouchers. The firm says it has received hundreds of enquiries about the vouchers since they were put on sale in November. A couple can have half-hour or hour-long advice sessions with a […]
A prominent Twin Cities lawyer who was in line to become president of the Minnesota State Bar Association was charged Monday with plying a teenage boy with alcohol at his home and then raping him. The charges against Aaron F. Biber, of the Gray Plant Mooty law firm, say he arranged in a phone call
Heller Ehrman’s creditors have reached a tentative settlement for $1.6 million with 62 former shareholders, most of them junior partners, according to briefs filed in bankruptcy court late Wednesday. Creditors are targeting 180 partners altogether and have carved out policy committee members and senior management for separate negotiations. At least 56 partners who made less
Cardoni & Associates, of Kingston, Pa., will close its doors by the end of the year, sources familiar with the Pennsylvania insurance defense bar say, following federal charges that a Luzerne County Common Pleas judge allegedly accepted the use of a New Jersey beach house owned by the firm’s managing member and improperly ruled in
Last month, Susan Blount, the general counsel of Prudential Financial, sent a letter to the 60 law firms the insurance giant uses regularly. The letter addressed the general economy and the need to cut costs, but one announcement stuck out: Prudential informed the firms that in calendar year 2010, the company expected to pay for
DLA Piper has made a new round of job cuts in the Middle East, with the firm set to make another 9% of staff in the region redundant in response to the continued deterioration in the markets. The latest round of cuts, which follow a review of the business, equate to seven lawyers and 10
The Senate late Thursday confirmed Victoria Espinel to be the nation’s first-ever intellectual property enforcement coordinator, a position that will be housed in the White House. She most recently served as the founder and president of the nonprofit Bridging the Innovation Divide and also has served as a visiting professor at George Mason University Law
The former general counsel of Broadcom Corp., David Dull, avoided criminal charges in a stock options backdating case this week following claims of prosecutorial misconduct. Dull is expected to reach a nonprosecution agreement with the government, according to court documents. He has not been criminally charged in the case, but he is considered to be
Stripped of his freedom by the FBI early Tuesday, disgraced Fort Lauderdale, Fla., lawyer Scott Rothstein appeared in a packed Fort Lauderdale federal courtroom and was accused by prosecutors of using forged judicial signatures to defraud investors as part of a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. Wearing a brown designer T-shirt and blue jeans, Rothstein, 47,
The ostensible topic of a recent argument before the Supreme Court was lawyering, but the real subject turned out to be judging. An exchange between Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and one of the lawyers was illuminating. The lawyer, Paul D. Clement, was representing the legal team that had won improvements in Georgia’s foster
