The Shark pays a hefty sum for divorceAccording to recently released documents, famed golfer Greg Norman paid $103 million to his former wife to end their marriage. The recent article says the divorce settlement was reached in 2007 but the

Discipline charges filed against California lawyers have been public record for more than two decades, but it took phone calls, letters or visits to State Bar headquarters to get the details. No longer. State Bar governors voted 18-4 Friday to

is what appears to be a new organization whose aim is to "'prevent, deter and respond' to frivolous malpractice lawsuits." This seems like a goal we - including good plaintiffs' medical malpractice lawyers - can agree on, right? Frivolous lawsuits

Is it possible that, for once, pro bono will be safe from a recession? Nationally, 2007 was a banner year for pro bono work. The average Am Law 100 firm logged 25,893 hours, up 13.2 percent from 2006. Total hours

While 1994 may not stick out in many people's minds as being one of the watershed years of U.S. history, it does for film director Jonathan Levine. "Much like 1776, just with more rap music," he says. It's the year

The question of whether privilege is waived when information relating to litigation assessments is disclosed to outside auditors is one without a clear answer under existing case law. Notwithstanding this lack of clarity, attorneys Alan I. Raylesberg and Lawrence E.

The Supreme Court has asked Exxon to respond by Tuesday to a filing that asks whether the Alaskan fishermen, families and others who saw the Court cut their $2.5 billion punitive damages award to about $500 million may collect interest

Two of Martin Luther King Jr.'s children have sued their brother for taking money out of the estate of their late mother without authorization, and for not providing details about how he's managing the MLK estate. As Bernice King is

Both the president and president-elect of The Florida Bar say improving diversity is a top priority for the legal profession, but their small firms lack minority representation. Atkinson Diner managing partner David Mankuta says it's challenging for small firms like

Law firms didn't slow down their march to the altar in the second quarter of 2008, but just how many mergers occurred depends on whom you ask. Altman Weil announced a sharp increase, pegging law firm mergers at 26, compared

An executive who worked at IBM Corp. for nearly a decade pleaded guilty Friday to stealing trade secrets about the company's pricing and trying to pass them off to his superiors at rival Hewlett-Packard Co. when he took a job

For more than a decade, Andrews Kurth partner Raymond Cook represented Howard Hughes in his business dealings -- including the 1965 sale of Hughes' shares in TWA to the air carrier, which netted the eccentric Texan more than $500 million.

The maker of recalled heart drug Digitek faces at least nine federal lawsuits in New Jersey, including one where a patient died, alleging the drug was dangerous and defective. The lawsuits were filed against Actavis Totowa and its parent company,

The authors of anonymous online posts that accused a former congressman of paying $25,000 to the mayor of Mamaroneck, N.Y., in connection with a home renovation project may soon find themselves the named defendants in a defamation action. By requiring

For the first time, a California appellate court has said that when a conservator seeks court approval of an estate plan, while the subject is living, any challenge to the will must be raised at that hearing -- not when

Travel by air is the common lot -- and often the common burden -- of today's mobile lawyer. But, according to consultant Donna Payne, good planning bolstered by smart technology makes plane trips more bearable. She offers some tips and

The rise of nasty political campaigns targeting elected state judges nationally, coupled with the cost of judicial elections and a potential backlash over the California Supreme Court's gay marriage decision, has prompted that state's chief justice to hold the first