Calif. Lawyer Convicted of Bilking Clients
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A jury Thursday convicted a once-prominent attorney who lived a pampered, lavish lifestyle for stealing millions from clients including low-income tenants, disabled children and struggling immigrants.
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US lawyer Lynn Stewart is convicted of supporting terrorists by smuggling messages from a client.
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In a three-decade career, California lawyer William S. Lerach won tens of billions of dollars for his clients by suing executives embroiled in corporate scandal. Casting himself as the voice of victimized shareholders, he chalked up unprecedented awards in the Enron accounting mess and the Exxon oil...
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A lawyer who admitted leaking the confidential grand jury testimony of Barry Bonds and other athletes to a reporter was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.
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A case pitting two of the biggest names in IP law against each other came to a head Tuesday, when an Oakland, Calif., jury awarded $82 million to a San Jose, Calif.
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Is an attorneyâs fierce devotion to an individual clientâs interests a passÃ© concept?
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Federal prosecutors have announced the convictions of three Oregon residents, saying they had colluded to buy and resell some $29 million worth of Microsoft software intended for educational institutions to non-academic customers.
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Lucrative business ends in jail A former solicitor who set up an internet prostitution business has been jailed for a year at Guildford Crown Court for "prostitution offences", UK tabloid The Sun reports.â¦
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Â· Lawyers for convicted pair point to fresh evidenceÂ· Shooting of three drug dealers featured in films
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Peter Braunstein was convicted on charges that he tied up, sexually molested and terrorized a former colleague.
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Two former executives with Gateway Inc., the nation's third-largest PC vendor, are guilty of manipulating earnings and revenues to meet Wall Street expectations, according to a verdict delivered Wednesday by a federal jury in California.
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It took nearly two years, three courts and five judges, but a lawyer has cleared himself of a shoplifting conviction. At the center of the dispute? $3.76.
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A class-action lawyer's lenient plea deal sends a bad message.
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A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients &#151; a radical Egyptian sheik &#151; to his terrorist disciples on the outside.
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After fighting for years to clear his name, a prominent marijuana advocate known as the &quot;ganja guru&quot; was convicted again on Wednesday on charges of cultivating and distributing the weed.
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Sharman 'encouraged' illegal file-trading, lawyers allege
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The polygamist "prophet" is found guilty of accessory to rape, a victory for a novel legal tactic focusing on child abuse