Man arrested in lawyer’s 2016 murder was opposing litigant in family trust dispute, defamation case
ABA Journal Daily News
ABA Journal Daily News
ABA Journal Daily News
ABA Journal Daily News
ABA Journal Daily News
While in private business, acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker walked away from a taxpayer-subsidized apartment-rehabilitation project in Iowa after years of cost overruns, delays and other problems, public records show. The city of Des Moines ultimately yanked an affordable housing loan that Whitaker's company had been awarded, and another lender began foreclosure proceedings after Whitaker […]
ABA Journal Daily News
ABA Journal Daily News
One of President Donald Trump's closest friends and confidants took advantage of the Great Recession to build an unprecedented real estate business that makes him tantamount to a modern-day slumlord buying up homes, bumping up rents and allowing the properties to fall into disrepair. Southern California billionaire Thomas J. Barrack is the mastermind behind the […]
Out of 37,124 people who graduated in 2016 from ABA-accredited law schools, nearly 73 percent had full-time, long-term jobs requiring JDs, according to employment data (PDF) released today. ABA Journal Daily News
In South Carolina, 5,431 homes were in some stage of the foreclosure process during the first quarter, ending March 31, equating to one in every 400 homes, according to a report from Attom Data Solutions . The state's foreclosure total in the first quarter was down about 5% from the fourth quarter of 2016 and […]