A lawyer’s attempt to shield himself from discipline via a release in a divorce agreement was not only void — it was itself an ethics violation, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled, finding that the lawyer knew the release was unenforceable but included it as a tactical block against the client’s wife.

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A Pennsylvania jury has found an $80 million global settlement of more than 500 claims relating to the release of radiation at two nuclear plants was fair and reasonable, paving the way for the insurance company to have to cover the settlement paid out by two companies that ran the plants.

A three-judge panel in the District of Massachusetts has declined to impose disciplinary sanctions on Boston federal prosecutor Jeffrey Auerhahn for judicial findings that Auerhahn’s withholding of exculpatory evidence prompted the release of purported mobsters from prison.

Lawyers for various Lehman Bros.