After 10 years as an illegal worker I have been granted leave to stay. Can I claim for payments made with a fake NI number?

Two lawyers were among several people arrested Thursday in a rapidly expanding hedge fund insider trading scandal. Arthur J. Cutillo allegedly gave information about mergers and acquisitions he gleaned as an associate at Ropes & Gray to Jason Goldfarb, an

A group of plaintiffs lawyers is testing whether Bank of America's waiver of attorney-client privilege in the Merrill Lynch flap might apply to shareholder suits against BofA related to its merger with Merrill. The bank intended the waiver to apply

The D.C. Court of Appeals last week revived a series of lawsuits by individuals who say they were harmed by cell phone radiation, adding yet another wrinkle to a debate within U.S. courts over whether national regulations trump state laws

Faced with the prospect of recurring smartphone service issues, Caldwalader's IT department searched for technology to manage, monitor and support its global BlackBerry environment. After a competitive review, the firm selected BoxTone's modular software platform.

At an ABA panel discussion Thursday, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman underlined his and others' support for strengthening a federal rule that spells out the government's obligation to turn over favorable evidence to defense lawyers. To address the judiciary's concern,

Conservatives on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rode to the rescue of one of their own on Thursday, finding that Judge Richard Tallman didn't botch a bizarre murder-for-hire case in Idaho. The en banc decision from Judge Carlos

According to a monthly jobs report released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the nation lost 190,000 jobs in October as the unemployment rate jumped to 10.2 percent, its highest point since 1983. The legal sector wasn't spared.

A lawsuit by Amaranth, the largest hedge fund ever to fail, against J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., will go forward, following the N.Y. Appellate Division's reinstatement yesterday of the fund's claim for tortious interference. Amaranth, which collapsed in 2006, alleged

Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. said Friday it will pay $296 million to settle a DOJ investigation into the company's Guidant unit. The investigation involved product advisories issued by Guidant in 2005, a year before Boston Scientific paid $27

The downfall of one-time power broker Scott Rothstein amid an alleged fraud that investors say cost them at least $400 million is generating new business for lawyers all over South Florida -- and some of that business is coming from

A law school professor has withdrawn a suit accusing legal blog Above the Law of publishing a "viciously racist series of rants" after reporting his arrest for suspicion of soliciting prostitution. David Lat, the blog's managing editor, declined comment Thursday,

Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., has been a longtime advocate of televising sessions of the U.S. Supreme Court, a quest that has repeatedly fallen on deaf ears at the high court. But in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday, Specter

Try as they might, lawyers from one anti-gay rights organization just can't get any love from judges in California. After being barred from intervening in the federal challenge to Proposition 8, the state's ban on same-sex marriage, the Campaign for

A woman has been arrested for repeatedly harassing and threatening the New York judge who has been presiding over her divorce proceeding. According to court records, Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Sunshine initiated the action against Cheryl Uzamere after she left

Day Pitney has laid off 29 staff members across eight of the firm's nine offices stretching from Boston to Washington, D.C. In February, Day Pitney let go of 66 staff members firmwide, and in May, the firm dropped 20 lawyers.

Kenneth Javerbaum and Gerald Baker are among New Jersey's leading personal injury litigators and teachers, and now they're going to practice together in a 22-lawyer operation. As of next month, Baker and his two partners will be of counsel to

Law firms are changing the way they hire, evaluate, develop, promote and pay their associates, says consultant Larry Richard. Case in point: the accelerating interest among law firms in moving from the traditional lockstep to a more performance-based "levels" system

France's investigating judges are a powerful lot: They can order phone taps and home searches, interrogate terrorists and bring down politicians. Now, one has even ordered former French President Jacques Chirac to stand trial. But those sweeping powers may soon

Nova Scotians will benefit from improved regulation of the private security industry in new legislation introduced today, Nov. 2, by Justice Minister Ross Landry.