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A former editor-in-chief of the New York Post’s digital platform sued parent company News Corp on Tuesday, claiming she was fired after complaining that the newspaper’s former editor-in-chief sexually propositioned her.

A Chicago lawyer is facing insider trading charges that claim he used information from a longtime friend and business partner to buy shares in an education-technology company just before it announced a major jump in earnings.

No matter how many verdicts they’ve waited for over the course of their careers, it never gets easier.

More than three decades after New York City was riveted by the courtroom drama of Bernhard Goetz, a white man accused of shooting a group of Black men in the subway, author James Patterson has written a book about the lawyer who won an acquittal of Goetz’s attempted murder charges with a self-defens…

More than 30 lawsuits claiming that cows’ milk baby formula products cause a dangerous medical condition in premature infants have been filed against the makers of Enfamil and Similac in Illinois state courts since February, and plaintiffs’ firm Keller Lenkner is seeking to consolidate them before o…

Morgan & Morgan announced in August a $100,000 give-away for whoever came up with the best jingle for the personal injury firm. Now it has a winner.

About 26,000 applications from Afghan nationals seeking entry to the United States under a special program are awaiting review at an agency of the Department of Homeland Security, which has granted about 100 of them over the last four and a half months, according to the agency and legal aid groups.

Financing companies that cover the medical bills of personal-injury plaintiffs in exchange for a cut of their damage awards or settlements recently won new protections in Colorado and have beaten back attempts to curb their activities in two other states, legislative records show.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with an objector and threw out a $10 million settlement and about $2.6 million in attorneys’ fees on Wednesday in a class action against Massage Envy after finding the deal required more scrutiny under the Class Action Fairness Act.

A Florida doctor admitted Friday to his role in a plot to convince women to have unnecessary surgeries to remove their transvaginal mesh implants in an effort to get a cut of settlement funds paid by the mesh manufacturers.

The International Academy of Trial Lawyers will sponsor a move to bring four Afghan attorneys and their families, who face danger from the Taliban due to their work, to the United States under a program that could grant them temporary entry and the opportunity to apply for asylum.

Sanford Heisler Sharp has told its attorneys that it’s reducing the minimum number of hours they need to work per year, while at the same time increasing salaries by $10,000.

An attorney known for bringing objections to class action settlements said he is routinely contacted by other lawyers encouraging him to intervene in cases, hoping he’ll throw a wrench in a planned settlement.

The legal community in New Orleans spent Monday regrouping after Hurricane Ida ripped through Louisiana as a Category 4 storm the previous day.

A piece of legislation introduced in Illinois in the wake of litigation against high-profile attorney Tom Girardi would put plaintiffs’ lawyers under more scrutiny for the way they handle settlement money.

Personal injury goliath Morgan & Morgan is offering amateur musicians a shot at $100,000 -- and the chance to have their legal jingle be the airwaves’ new earworm.

Actavis improperly marketed its testosterone replacement therapy drug Androderm and ignored safety warnings from federal regulators and studies indicating that use of such products could lead to increased risk of adverse cardiovascular events as it sought to make the drug its “cash cow,” an Illinois…

A former Colorado state court judge was sentenced to a year and a day in prison after he admitted to tipping off a high school friend about a drug trafficking investigation.

A group of defense attorneys and prison inmates filed a proposed class action against the Massachusetts Department of Corrections and Sirchie Acquisition Co LLC on Wednesday, saying a Sirchie product that the prison system uses to drug test mail is wrong nearly 80% of the time.

Marcelo Pomeranz of Cooley LLP secured the first patent for a THC-producing plant in the U.S. and broke new ground in pot intellectual property in Europe and Canada, earning him a spot among the cannabis attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.