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Former NYC Lawyer Shot to Death on Tiny Island Where She Was Attorney General

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Rachelle Bergeron, 33, had just returned from her daily jog Monday when she was murdered..

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Lawyer, Self-Proclaimed as ‘The Bull,’ Pleads Guilty to Cyber-Threating Online Critics

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Brad Pistotnik admitted that he paid for ‘reputation management services’ that included sending a flood of emails to Leagle and RipoffReport and Jaburg Wilk demanding that negative information be removed from their websites.

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Former Woodbridge Group CEO Gets 25 Years in $1.3-Billion Fraud

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Shapiro lured investors with promises of returns as high as 10 percent from investments in loans to property developers.

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Man Convicted in Murder of Law Professor Locked in Family Feud

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The state had charged three people with the murder, hoping to pressure them into revealing whoever may have financed the crime.

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Lawyer Who Plundered Millions From Estates Gets Prison Time

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Thomas Lagan was sentenced Tuesday to four to 12 years in prison.

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Lawyer Found Guilty of Defrauding Virginia Legislator, Autism Group

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David Miller was found guilty of conspiring with his wife to embezzle more than $1.5 million by creating fake law firms that siphoned funds.

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Attorneys Say Disgraced Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Isn’t Paying Them

Attorneys Say Disgraced Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Isn’t Paying Them

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Cooley LLP lawyers say their client has not paid for their work for more than a year.

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Former Biglaw Co-Chair Gets One Month in College Scam

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“I disregarded the values I’ve had throughout my life,” the once-highflying New York M&A lawyer told the U.S. district judge just before she sentenced him.

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Repeat Offenders: Corporate Misdeeds Often Settled With Deferred Prosecution Agreements

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The number of cases brought against corporations fell to 99 last year, compared with 181 in 2015.

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Report: SC Law Firm Allegedly Helped to Cheat Veterans Out of Millions of Dollars

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The Upstate Law Group, owned by Candy Kern-Fuller, allegedly worked with a network of salesmen to lure in cash-strapped veterans.

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Ex-Wall Street Banker Guilty in Second Insider Trading Trial

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A former Wall Street investment banker was found guilty of insider trading for passing tips about healthcare industry mergers to his father.

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Prominent Baltimore Defense Lawyer Indicted for Allegedly Aiding Crimes Of Marijuana Kingpin

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Prosecutors obtained indictments for prominent Baltimore defense attorney Ken Ravenell on charges of conspiracy to commit racketeering, money laundering and drug distribution.

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3 JPMorgan Traders Accused of Rigging Futures Trades for Nearly a Decade

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The charges outlined in the criminal indictments were the latest turn in a years-long investigation that has previously yielded guilty pleas from traders at several banks.

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Fourth Circuit Takes Up Secretive Raid on Law Firm

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Federal agents seized tens of thousands of electronic files during a raid earlier this year, and now the government and the law firm are at odds on what is privileged.

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Why Companies Should Care About Increasing Criminal Enforcement of Trade Secret Theft

Why Companies Should Care About Increasing Criminal Enforcement of Trade Secret Theft

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Trade secrets plaintiffs should always consider whether to involve the state or federal authorities in their investigations, advises Procopio partner Mindy Morton.

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Motion Picture Association Fires GC After Rape Allegations and Arrest

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The MPAA’s senior executive vice president and global general counsel for the MPAA was arrested Aug. 23.

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Fort Worth Defense Contractor Charged With Felony for Allegedly Using Cheap, Substandard Parts for U.S. Tanks

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Inspectors said many of the company’s products were cheap replacements, some illegally obtained from China, which the company tried to hide from the government.

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Texas Lawyer Charged in Vast Criminal Conspiracy Case

Texas Lawyer Charged in Vast Criminal Conspiracy Case

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Jeffrey Stern is charged with conspiring to defraud the government, willfully filing multiple false tax returns and aiding in the preparation of those returns.

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Feds Say East Coast Lawyer Used His Learjet to Ship Pot, Hash Oil Across the Country

Feds Say East Coast Lawyer Used His Learjet to Ship Pot, Hash Oil Across the Country

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Manish Patel, an attorney licensed in New York and New Jersey, is named in a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday morning in federal court.

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A Law Firm Fired an Attorney. He Became the Firm’s Stalker And Stole an AR-15, Cops Say

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Christopher Brady was caught with a semi-automatic rifle he allegedly stole from the firm’s storage unit, the sheriff’s office says.

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