The Georgia Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a Fulton County legal -malpractice complaint against Barnes & Thornburg attorney James Leonard in a unanimous opinion on Tuesday. Leonard was sued by his former client, Cynthia Cox-Ott, for professional negligence, breach of contract and legal expenses after the life insurance…

In his first appearance in court since a Manhattan federal jury found him guilty of fraud and money laundering, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s new counsel said his trial attorneys Mark S. Cohen and Christian Everdell of Cohen & Gresser plan to withdraw from the case. Bankman-Fried’s new attorneys, Marc Mukasey…

Luxembourg-based private equity and investment firm CVC has raised almost $7 billion in capital commitments for its latest Asia fund, called CVC Capital Partners Asia VI. Asia VI will focus on investments in consumer and services sectors across Asia. So far, CVC has made over 80 acquisitions in the region.

More than three years into a New York criminal justice reform mandating that police write appearance tickets for certain low-level offenses, the overhaul has largely advanced a fundamental goal of reducing pre-arraignment detention, even though implementation has varied widely across the state, academic researchers said Wednesday. Also, the change hasn’t been…

A civil trial lawyer claimed that Blank Rome helped to lodge a frivolous lawsuit against her aimed at destroying her career. Attorney Veronica Saltz Turner alleged in a complaint filed Monday that a former client, represented by Blank Rome, pursued a yearslong legal fight against her as retaliation for “switching sides”…

Hartford attorney Frank McCoy Jr. of McCoy & McCoy secured a $13 million verdict for his client after an accident that caused the plaintiff to be ejected from a forklift and suffer further injuries when the machine ran over her left leg. The lawsuit against The Raymond Corp., filed in July 2019 in…