A federal judge has denied class certification in a suit over the marketing of Arizona iced tea as “100% Natural” because the plaintiff hired her lawyers seven months before buying the product.

A malpractice and fraud suit against Holland & Knight raises a question of urgent interest to real estate investor-plaintiffs with projects that are underwater: Can they hold responsible the lawyers who handled real estate transactions for ventures that did not pan out?

A fee fight stemming from a confidential settlement of Prudential Life employees’ suit against the company has spilled out into the open, as a bank that loaned money to one of the lawyers tries to enforce a $10 million judgment against him.

As the lawyers for imprisoned former state Sen. Vincent J. Fumo see it, the prosecutors who appealed his 55-month sentence as too lenient made a serious tactical blunder.

Despite all that’s been written in the two years since Lehman filed the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, not much has been heard from one contingent that had front-row seats: the in-house lawyers. How did they respond to the cataclysmic events, and what do they think now