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Milberg Weiss ex-partner David Bershad pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court to a conspiracy charge related to a scheme to pay illegal kickbacks to plaintiffs in securities lawsuits filed by his law firm. Bershad, 67, will forfeit $7.75 million, ...

A lawsuit based on an event in Missouri and arguing Missouri law cannot be fought in Illinois, an Illinois appellate court has ruled. The unanimous decision is the second time a Madison County, Ill., woman has been rebuffed in her ...

A man committed under the state’s Sexually Violent Predator Act will get another chance in court because the state improperly relied on a pedophilia diagnosis, according to a Missouri Court of Appeals Western District opinion. The appeals court on Tuesday ...

The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District found a technicality on an affidavit was enough to quash a prisoner’s motion for summary judgment. After inmate Angela McIntyre won a summary judgment to stop the state from taking money out of ...

Attorney William Lerach, one of the nation’s best-known securities class action lawyers, leaves the Bob Casey Federal Courthouse in Houston on Feb. 22, 2006. Bloomberg News reported Lerach would step down as head of Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & ...

State and federal tax refunds can’t be shielded from creditors in Missouri bankruptcy cases, the 8th Circuit U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday in a decision hailed by bankruptcy trustees. In separate cases, debtors Charles Benn Jr. and Steven ...

The recent high-profile case involving Iraq war veteran Anthony Klecker — whose drunken driving caused the death of a 16-year-old high school cheerleader — highlights some of the issues criminal defense attorneys face in representing returning war veterans who experience ...

William Lerach, who negotiated more than $7 billion in settlements for Enron Corp. investors, will step down as head of his San Diego-based law firm within two months, a person familiar with his plans said. Lerach, a former partner of ...

Patent lawyers and inventors sued the U.S. Commerce Department, demanding the ouster of a former aide to Congressman Dennis Hastert as the second-in-command at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Deputy Director Margaret J.A. Peterlin, who was counsel and national ...

The parents of a 3-year-old boy sued McDonald’s last week claiming the fast-food chain falsely stated that its food was dairy-free. R. Todd and Allison W. Merriott claimed their son, Corbin, became severely ill after eating McDonald’s french fries. According ...

St.Louis-based A.G. Edwards Inc. must pay $258,300 to a California optician who claimed he lost his only death benefit after receiving bad investment advice, NASD arbitrators ruled. A panel at NASD, the brokerage regulator, found that A.G. Edwards didn’t properly ...