A declaration from the papacy took aim at securitization and credit default swaps, characterizing them as a kind of predatory economic cannibalism, a form of “gambling on the failure of others,” and calling them morally unacceptable. A...

A noted civil rights attorney, who later in his career turned to the climate change issue, committed suicide as an act of protest, in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. He chose the early morning when no one would be...

Third-party funding of litigation projects, increasingly popular with plaintiffs, can raise serious questions about protected information. Defendants in some of these cases are doing their best to raise them, and in this Today’s General Counsel article, Todd...

A Fort Lauderdale law firm known for helping George Bush’s case in his year 2000 election victory and for winning hundreds of millions of dollars for clients against a Ponzi schemer, is accused of failing to pay...

Five men have been charged in what federal prosecutors in Manhattan say was a massive litigation fraud that involved doctors, lawyers and litigation finance companies. Hundreds of lawsuits may be at issue. However, no lawyers, doctors or...

Stealth email tracking software, sometimes called spymail, is likely employed “in just about every marketing email you receive,” writes Mark C. Palmer. But according to an advisory opinion of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, where...

According to a New York Times investigative article, an “assembly-line-like system” involving plaintiff attorneys, litigation funders, banks, physicians and marketers is enticing women into needless and sometimes dangerous remedial surgery, in order to improve the chance of prevailing...

In one case, the company itself got off the hook on the basis of full disclosure and cooperation, but no such luck for the former GC...

There are a number of ways to look at the $130K that President Trump’s personal lawyer paid to a former porn movie actress, and all them...

The former law partner of a prominent Miami tax attorney who committed suicide has been sued by the deceased lawyer’s firm. According to the complaint, the defendant attorney, Hal J. Webb, contrived to receive the proceeds of...