Articles Posted in General Legal News

This is off topic, but very interesting. The United States Supreme Court has just overturned Arthur Anderson’s criminal conviction. The Court held that a key jury instruction was in error. Read the opinion here.

Investor Ron Perlman won big in his case against Morgan Stanley. Compensatory damages were $604.3 million. Punitive damages – limited under Florida law to three times the compensatory award – were pegged by the jury at $850 million. Regular readers will recall the the trial judge eliminated liability as an…

I know this is off topic – but I don’t care. Nancy Grace disgusts me. I know she lost her future husband to a murderer; that is horrible. I know she is profoundly pro-prosecution; no problem. But she is also a lawyer. Her outrageous comments about the legal system offend…

The passage of IRS Code Section 409A cast doubt on the ability of lawyers to structure attorney’s fees in personal injury cases. The IRS has issued new guidelines that make it clear that, if certain conditions are met, attorney’s fees can be deferred in contingent fee cases. Read about the…