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Holland & Knight Ex-Partner Accused of Bill Padding

Edward Ryan, a former partner at Holland & Knight's Chicago office, has been charged with inflating legal fees on a multimillion-dollar lawsuit.…

Bradley Lerman, a partner at Chicago's Winston & Strawn who has represented Illinois Governors Rod Blagojevich and George Ryan, is…

Time Magazine has published its Person of the Year issue, and has shocked the world by choosing the come-from-behind candidate,…

The Legal Times Blog reports that a US district judge has dismissed Ralph Nader’s latest attempt to prove he was the…

Political commentators and legal experts are debating the qualifications of Caroline Bouvier Kennedy to fill the role of US Senator…

After defeating a lawsuit backed by powerful Hollywood studios, Sunnyvale's Kaleidescape has fired its lead trial lawyer and is refusing…

Two-thirds of all US law firms expect lower 2009 revenues, although the economic harm to date has mostly hurt large…

Thacher Proffitt & Wood, the 160-year-old New York-based law firm, will close forever. The subprime crisis slashed demand for its…

From Page One of today's Los Angeles Times: The economic storm has come to this: Justice is being delayed or…

The list of candidates for Barack Obama's Department of Justice picks get shorter every day. Rumor says that David Odgen…

From the WSJ Law Blog: Irving Picard, who last week was tapped to liquidate the now-infamous Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities…

We posted last week about the University of Michigan Law School student who tried her hand at prostitution, and was…