If you win more than $2 billion for your clients, a contingent fee of more than $304 million probably doesn’t seem that out of line.

That’s what the Delaware Supreme Court concluded last week in rebuffing one final attempt to overturn a staggering fee award in a shareholder derivative action.

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A Connecticut homeowner thought she had put behind her a lawsuit over a fatal stabbing that occurred at her daughter’s fifteenth birthday party back in 2006.

However, a state appeals court just ordered a new trial, finding the jury in her first trial decided the case under the wrong premises liability standard.

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Negligent entrustment can be a handy tool for prying open those deep pockets. But is the theory available to a wife who wants to hold her husband’s employer liable after the man killed himself by driving drunk in a company vehicle?

One state court says yes, holding that a negligent entrustment cause of action is not limited to injured third parties.

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The Illinois Supreme Court righted a wrong Thursday, overturning a $3.9 million verdict for a boy who lost his foot in a foolhardy attempt to board a moving freight train.

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More is not always better. That point was driven home yesterday to a California lawyer who managed to bury three separate courts under mountains of paper in his bid to recover $600,000 he lost to a Ponzi scheme.

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A federal judge on Tuesday lifted the injunction on enforcement of the controversial Arizona law directing police to check the immigration status of criminal suspects they detain.

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Employers aren’t supposed to be clairvoyant when it comes to job applicants.

So it’s hard to fathom why a transgendered Minnesota man ever expected to hold UPS liable for discrimination when he couldn’t even show the shipping company was aware he was in the process of changing his sex at the time he interviewed for a job.

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Perhaps an Ohio immigration lawyer just didn’t think she would ever be caught. After all, who else would be in a better position to know the holes in the system?

Well, Lilian Antwiwaa Asante was caught and now she’ll have to assess the wreckage of her legal career from her new home in Accra, Ghana.

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Tattoo artists enjoy the protection of the First Amendment in plying their trade. That’s what the Arizona Supreme Court has decided in a zoning dispute between the city of Mesa and a couple who wanted to open a tattoo parlor.

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An ERISA plaintiff was entitled to discovery of in-house legal memoranda bearing on Unum Life Insurance’s determination of the amount of his long-term disability benefits, the 9th Circuit decided Wednesday.

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