Pao held various operating roles at business software company BEA Systems before joining Kleiner. She also was a corporate attorney for Cravath, Swaine & Moore in the firm's New York City headquarters and Hong Kong offices before getting into ...

That’s one of the arguments attorneys for the pilots will make Monday in federal bankruptcy court in New York. “We make our case that American doesn’t need to slash as many jobs, cut pay, benefits, slash work rules. Essentially destroying ...

NEW YORK — Arbitrator Shyam Das has finished hearing arguments ... No arrest has been made. Sanders judge orders child support McKINNEY — A Texas judge has ordered Hall of Famer Deion Sanders to pay $10,550 in monthly child support as ...

An alleged Scottish 'madam' who is accused of running a high-class prostitution ring from her home in upstate New York has made an attempt to dismiss her legal team and be represented instead by a group of lawyers which includes Uri Geller's son.

Dharun Ravi has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for spying on and intimidating his gay Rutgers University roommate, who then killed himself by jumping off New York's George Washington Bridge. The September 2010 death of Tyler Clementi, and Ravi's trial this year, thrust the issue of cyberbullying and prejudices against homosexuals into the national spotlight. Clementi, an 18-year-old freshman ...

NEW YORK (AP) - A 24-year-old New York City woman accused of discarding her newborn baby in a hospital trash can has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The Queens District Attorney's Office said Dawa Lama was sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty to manslaughter.

New York state police say they've captured a fugitive who escaped from a Pennsylvania jail in 2007. They say 28-year-old Joseph Chapman was arrested Sunday after investigators got a tip he was living under the name Joshua Tompkins near the Chautauqua ...

The prison's store doubles as a delicatessen ... Obama promotes second joint fundraiser with Bill Clinton Obama promotes second joint fundraiser with Bill Clinton NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama invited his supporters on Tuesday to make a donation ...

“Because it is not known whether the Affordable Care Act will remain, in whole or in part, it would be imprudent for New Jersey now to create an exchange before these critical threshold issues are decided with finality by the court,” he adde

"Congress documented hundreds of instances in which the attorney general, acting pursuant to section ... Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. It also covers certain counties in California, Florida, New York, North ...

AP) -- A New York man convicted of contraband cigarette charges in West Virginia will spend more than a year in prison. Mohammad D ... Officers found the cigarettes when they stopped him in Lewis County on March 29, 2011. U.S. Attorney William ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23, 2012  /PRNewswire/ -- In a recent and very strongly worded decision, the United States District Court for Southern District of New York concluded that Conduit Limited ( www.conduit.com ...

The two cousins have not denied beating Pennington and said they were upset over a drug deal gone awry, according to their lawyers ... called the law "Orwellian." James B. Jacobs, a law professor at New York University and one of the leading ...

Municipal Judge Bill Cook convicted the 22-year-old former ... face any criminal charges after being accused of punching a woman in March outside a New York nightclub. "The case is closed," said Steinberg, Marshall's Denver-based attorney.

"This raises serious questions," said Amol Sinha, director of the Suffolk County chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union ... He is serving consecutive life prison terms. His wife, Melinda Brady, who also admitted abusing painkillers ...

Ken Altshuler, of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, raves about the benefits which smartphones and social media have brought to savvy divorce attorneys ... In 2006, he helped found New York-based Sense Networks, which crunches phone data ...

The gain was only a small reprieve for shareholders ... One suit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, claims Facebook's IPO documents contained untrue statements and omitted important facts, such as a "severe reduction in revenue growth ...

Among defendants in the lawsuit are Attorney ... New York woman who faked having cancer so donors would pay for her wedding and Caribbean honeymoon is being released after less than two months in jail. Jessica Vega apologized Wednesday in Orange ...

Anna Gristina, the suburban mother of four dubbed the "Soccer Mom Madam" by tabloids, appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court to ask a judge for permission to allow Connecticut criminal defense lawyer Norman Pattis to take over her case. Judge Juan Merchan ...

"I'm confident we'll be able to prove he has actual medical conditions that justify compensation," Mari said. The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board and the LIRR are separate organizations, and workers ... U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A judge has denied a defense attorney's request for a mistrial in the case of an upstate New York doctor on trial for manslaughter in the hit & run death of a skateboarder.

L.A. journalist Chuck Philips was kicked out of court yesterday as he covered the New York trial of alleged drug dealer and longtime rap industry manager James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond. Rosemond was indicted on federal drug charges in what authorities ...

QUEENSBURY -- An 18-year-old man from Warrensburg was sentenced to 3 years in state prison Wednesday in Warren County Court following his guilty plea in a rape case. NEW YORK -- After 14 games and two nail-biting playoff series wins, the New York Rangers ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Derek Jeter scored on a passed ball with one out in the ninth inning and the New York Yankees rallied to hand the Tigers their fifth straight loss, 7-6 on Friday night, hours after Detroit left fielder Delmon Young was arraigned on a hate crime harassment charge.

A tribal court sentenced Shakil Afrid to 33 years in jail and fined him $3,500, according toThe New York Times. Afridi was charged with treason for running a fake vaccination program to collect information, according to the BBC. Secretary of State Hillary ...

Graduated from Harvard Law School in 1985. CAREER: Joined the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan in 1988 after working for a New York law firm. Appointed top federal prosecutor for the Northern District of Illinois by President George W.

NEW YORK, May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Akerman ... and pursue their own strategies and growth plans," said Wayne Wald, shareholder in Akerman's Corporate Practice Group and lead lawyer on the deal. The Akerman team representing Carrols ...

The gain was only a small reprieve for shareholders ... One suit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, claims Facebook's IPO documents contained untrue statements and omitted important facts, such as a "severe reduction in revenue growth ...

HARTFORD, Conn., May 11 (UPI) -- An ex-police officer was sentenced to 37months for taking payoffs to ensure a drug courier went undetected by law enforcement at a New York state airport.

Mark Grisanti at 65 Court St. to press for an ... Special Olympics New York will hold an early kickoff event tonight for the 2012 Summer Games, which will be held here in Buffalo on the weekend of June 16. It's a party from 5:30 to 7:30 at ...

Sentencing is set for an upstate New York woman who admits she faked having cancer to con donors into paying for her wedding and Caribbean honeymoon. Jessica Vega isn't likely to do prison time, but court officials say she'll have to repay $13,368 to her victims.

Following two federal court rulings in 2010, growing amounts of corporate ... senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. One example involves Americans for Responsible Leadership, another non-profit formed a month ...

A key government witness in the perjury case against ex-New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens put a beer can in a corpse’s hand while working as a New York City police officer in the 1990s, according to a court filing.

NEW YORK -- In the midst of a trial that brought tales of the high life and high fashion to family court, supermodel Linda Evangelista and a billionaire French businessman have reached an agreement to end their child support fight, their lawyers ...

(AP) - A fugitive captured in New York on Sunday has been returned to the same northwestern Pennsylvania jail from which he escaped in 2007. The Bradford Era (http://bit.ly/MGHjwh) reports Wednesday that 28-year-old Joseph Chapman was arraigned on an ...

GOSHEN, NEW YORK — A woman who faked having cancer so donors would pay for her wedding and Caribbean honeymoon was sentenced Wednesday to the nearly two months she has already served in jail. Jessica Vega, who apologized for the scam ...

Well, they haven't. Forty-three Catholic institutions, including the University of Notre Dame, Catholic University, and the archdioceses of New York and Washington, filed suit Monday in federal court to overturn the mandate. The U.S. Conference of Catholic ...

Fitzgerald is leaving the Justice Department after nearly 24 years, including his time as an assistant U.S. Attorney in New York. As the top federal law enforcement official in northern Illinois, Fitzgerald was at the center of some of the biggest legal ...

WASHINGTON, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Crowell & Moring LLP has added two prominent litigators to its growing New York office roster. The additions are Litigation Group partners Edwin M. Baum, a seasoned New York litigator whose practice is ...

“Lawyers help ... Ontaneda from New Jersey Institute of Technology explained. “It is important to intervene as early as possible so students know what they need to do to prepare for the future.” A local perspective West New York’s mayor, physician ...

“I tell them that the minute they leave my office or end our phone call, they should immediately contact a personal bankruptcy lawyer and take steps to ... in the affluent Kalorama section of Washington. She said she feared she would lose ...