Dalia Albert, 26, was seriously injured in an Orange County after her bicycle crashed into a semi-trailer the afternoon of November 19, 2009. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the big rig, driven by 29-year-old Juan

A can vary in complexity. Some require experienced attorneys, while others can be settled without one.People who are involved in a can handle their own claims. It is similar to handling your own injury. If you injury is a scratch

A lawsuit that seeks more than $100 million in damages alleges that ousted Florida law firm leader Scott Rothstein solicited investors for an alleged Ponzi scheme by piggybacking on actual lawsuits, including a tawdry case his firm was handling that

Two very different cases, the Jose Padilla case and the "balloon boy" case, cast new light on a legal issue that has been simmering for years: when, whether and how defendants should be informed about the collateral consequences of pleading

A panel of general counsel and senior in-house lawyers at a conference last week revealed that cost isn't always their top criteria when picking outside lawyers. They also want outside lawyers to take the initiative in building a relationship. Julia

When an e-discovery provider was assigned the job of looking for e-mail evidence in a recent business dispute, it seemed like just another job until the company found itself on the receiving end of a motion for contempt for reporting

Sutherland will shift from lockstep associate compensation to a performance-based system in January. The firm's roughly 175 associates will be grouped into three tiers, with advancement and pay increases pegged to their mastery of various skills. "The driving force in

Two former Luzerne County, Pa., judges who are facing federal criminal charges have been granted partial immunity in a civil suit brought by a class of juveniles who claim their rights were violated in the wake of the Luzerne County

Dietary supplement maker Brain Research Labs has sued Ropers Majeski partner Thomas Clarke Jr. and his law firm, as well as the plaintiff named in a complaint against Brain Research, saying that comments made about the class action litigation on

Dealing another major setback to the IRS in the ongoing litigation over how it handled a massive $8 billion refund for a now-abandoned telephone excise tax, a Pennsylvania federal judge has refused to dismiss a nationwide class action that says

Calling someone a "douche" may be bad manners but it does not give an insurance company grounds to disavow a policy protecting against defamation claims, a New York judge has ruled. The dispute arose after public relations firm owner Drew

Seyfarth Shaw is cutting associate salaries by 5 percent to 10 percent for all first-years who start in 2010, according to J. Stephen Poor, the firm's chairman and managing partner. The firm declined to comment beyond a statement Poor released

Robert Kelley, the attorney for former smoker Cindy Naugle, who last week won a whopping $300 million verdict in a suit against Philip Morris, spoke to The Am Law Litigation Daily about why the award in Naugle's case was so

A report filed with the California Supreme Court expressly finds that Ronald Bass, a former San Francisco deputy attorney general, was joking when he offered juror Zetta Southworth $10 to $20 in exchange for a guilty vote in the mid-'80s

A federal air marshal who says he was seriously injured when a flight attendant deliberately smashed a beverage cart into him is suing Delta Air Lines and the crew member, a "Jane Doe" co-defendant in the suit, who allegedly preceded

Not one to be left out of a constitutional thicket, 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski granted health benefits Thursday to the same-sex partners of court employees. Kozinski's order came a day after his colleague, Judge Stephen Reinhardt, issued his

A class can't be decertified unless there are substantial changes to the facts of a case, nor can it be decertified once a partial ruling has been made as to the merits of the case, an attorney for a class

At a joint press conference last week, Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Doris L. Downs and District Attorney Paul L. Howard Jr. declared an "economic state of emergency" looming over the Georgia county's justice system that could mean the

The past year was unprecedented for the legal industry when it came to the spike in tough decisions law firms had to make, but there could be light at the end of the tunnel. According to the responses from the

Les personnes âgées qui sont à risque d'être victimes d'exploitation financière, de violence psychologique, de violence physique et d'autres formes de négligence à l'égard des aînés pourront continuer de compter sur des programmes communautaires grâce à l'appui financier d'une initiative