A single day in 1968 sent DLA Piper partner Robert Benson’s family’s lives spiraling in different directions. Their paths would cross again 30 years later, a few days before Christmas in 1998. But that chance meeting would teach Benson the meaning of giving and forgiving that lies at the heart of this holiday season.Visit lawjobs.com News & Views

Federal prosecutors have indicted the woman at the heart of the San Francisco crime lab scandal that prompted the dismissal of hundreds of Superior Court cases.

Greenberg Traurig shareholder Leslie Corwin’s ethics are under fire in a pending lawsuit in which a hedge fund manager accuses Corwin and Greenberg of helping to cover up a client’s efforts to first forge and then tamper with a key document at the heart of a separate suit.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre has announced the completion of its merger with Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis.

The sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers, coupled with his $130 million divorce settlement, could help winnow any damages in a malpractice claim by team owner Frank McCourt against Bingham McCutchen, the law firm that drafted an invalid marital agreement at the heart of his divorce.