2012 – Page 31 – Lawyer.com | Legal Blog

Renters Win $500,000 Settlement Against Landlord’s Scam

A landlord in Baltimore made quite a profit by faking property damage and suing his former renters for restitution. That is, until Hong Park, a nonprofit legal aide looking into...

March 23, 20121

3 minutes

Settlements

Former Bear Sterns Employees Share $10 Million Settlement

Employees of Bear Sterns, the financial giant that was among the first failures of the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, claimed in a lawsuit that the bank mishandled its investments...

March 22, 2012

2 minutes

Settlements

Texas Educators Ordered to Apologize Post-Settlement

Apparently civility is the kind of thing that needs to be enforced by a court. A few weeks after a settlement banning school administrators in Texas from promoting religious displays,...

March 21, 2012

2 minutes

Settlements

Settlement News in the Entertainment Business

The entertainment world has recently reached a few settlements, and brought some old ones back up for new litigation. A settlement has finally been reached in the Michael Jackson secret...

March 20, 2012

2 minutes

Settlements

Mets Pay $162 Million in Madoff Settlement

Mets fans are used to errors on the field, but not in the bank. Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, the owners of the New York Mets, have settled a lawsuit concerning...

March 19, 2012

2 minutes