By Ross Todd | October 8, 2021
Mathew Rosengart, who has been dubbed 'Rosengod' by certain fans of Britney Spears, last week got a ruling suspending and removing the pop icon's father as conservator of her estate, a position that had given him an outsized role in her life and finances for a decade-plus.
By Jenna Greene | April 12, 2020
The underlying case is worthy of a reality television episode of its own. As Sidley Austin partner David Carpenter put it, "It's almost a Perry Mason-style story."
By Matthew T. Nelson and Jarrod Trombley | November 11, 2019
A new U.S. Supreme Court term has started with just three U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decisions on the court's docket. Gone are the days when the Sixth Circuit challenged the Ninth as the most reversed federal appellate court.
By Angela Morris | August 19, 2019
“I want a conviction,” said Houston attorney Michelle Acosta about San Antonio lawyer Allan Manka, who was charged with Class C misdemeanor simple assault for allegedly grabbing Acosta's buttocks. “Giving him deferred adjudication is a small slap on the wrist.”
By Andrew Denney | November 7, 2018
Rudolph Giuliani, the public face of President Donald Trump's legal team, appeared in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday to deal with his own legal issues: a divorce from his third wife, who claims that the well-heeled former New York City mayor has cut her off financially.
By Christine Simmons | October 19, 2018
Lawyers for Kristina Armstrong are seeking $33 million in damages against Blank Rome, arguing the firm failed to disclose its ties to her ex-husband's employer, Morgan Stanley.
By Marcia Coyle | June 12, 2018
"The contracts clause categorically prohibits states from passing 'any ... law impairing the obligation of contracts,'" Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a solo dissent in the case Sveen v. Melin. The framers, Gorsuch said, "were absolute. They took the view that treating existing contracts as 'inviolable' would benefit society by ensuring that all persons could count on the ability to enforce promises lawfully made to them."
By Tony Mauro | April 6, 2018
Douglas Hallward-Driemeier says the Arkansas ruling on lawyer fees was “exceptionally frustrating, because there was no question that we were the prevailing party.”
By Michael Booth | March 27, 2018
A New Jersey judge who last year sued the state judiciary is accused in a new ethics complaint of violating rules by his actions in family court matters in which he was involved.
By Jenna Greene | January 18, 2018
When ex-lovers fight over assets, it's often messy and ugly and mean. But in a pending California case, opposing counsel is accusing lawyers from Boies Schiller Flexner of going too far, with “loud, slut-shaming bells that cannot be unrung.”
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