Legal News

Blawg of the Day -- Real Estate Space
Doug Cornelius is a senior attorney at Goodwin Proctor in Boston, practicing primarily in real estate law...

Death of Dean Weiner
I am sorry to bring you the news of the death of Dean Weiner, a former tax partner at O'Melveny & Myers and a long-time adjunct in the Loyola-L...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: HOWARD CHAO - LAWYER
Today's Immigrant of the Day is the latest lawyer I wanted to highlight who is named in the National Law Journal's list of the 50 most powerful minority lawyers in America...

GAO: Improving Rental Real Estate Tax Compliance
The Government Accountability Office yesterday released Actions That Could Improve Rental Real Estate Reporting Compliance (GAO-08-956): At least an estimated 53% of individual taxpayers with rental real estate misreported their rental real estate activities for tax year 2001, resulting in...

Real Estate Overcharges: Not a New Problem
Boston, MA: With the recent news coverage about problems in the housing industry, it might seem as though problems with real estate overcharges are a new issue...

Call for Papers "Real Estate Transactions in Troubled Times"
The American Association of Law Schools is having its 2009 Annual Meeting in January in San Diego...

Real Estate Brokers
Questions home sellers should ask potential brokers

Real Estate Brokers
The role brokersplay

Estate Planning
Documents: durable power of attorney, living will, letter of instruction, and insurance trust

My exwife got a judgement aganst me. years latter i remarried and bought a home i told my new wife that I was not sure about owning real property so soon . our realtor told us I could file a quick claim deed. i sign it t
A quick claim deed has "No warranties" to anything. Your real estate a...

How to split marital assets in a divorce whose ownership is shared by other parties?
My father recently went through this. If the land in question was owned by him a...

Can I sue the executor of my fathers estate?
Get a lawyer. Not one you pay by the hour - a contingency based attorney. If he ...

what are the proper and legal steps to dissolve a partnership in an ongoing farm business?
I would say that the final tax forms are dispersed for that year with the indica...

What are my odds of winning in court, If I sue a home warranty company for fraud?
This is not an unusual situation. Many of these types of "warranty" products are...

Wrestler Estate
Family of pro wrestler settle multi million dollar estate lawsuit.

Estate of Seth Tobias
$25 million estate to be split as part of settlement.

Gulf War Syndrome
Panel Confirms it's Real, and Identifies Causes

Sharon Collins
found guilty of conspiring to kill her partner

Killer Heir
Estate of Fred Keller pays $40 million settlement.