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WASHINGTON — When Joe Biden's brother and son wanted to buy a hedge fund company two years ago, they turned for financing to an Illinois law firm that had lobbied the Delaware senator's office on an important piece of business in Congress—...

Greater Hartford Legal Aid has asked state regulators to investigate the illegal use of "submeters" at a Bloomfield apartment complex that allow each renter to be billed individually for gas heating. The state Department of Public Utility Control, in a...

Donald T. Senterfitt, who co-founded what is now one of the largest law firms in Florida before moving on to a long and distinguished career in banking, died Wednesday after battling cancer and pulmonary disease. He was 88. Senterfitt, of Orlando,...

When Joe Biden's brother and son wanted to buy a hedge fund company two years ago, they turned for financing to a law firm that had lobbied the Delaware senator's office on an important piece of business in Congress — and in fact had just...

Lawrence Reich, the private attorney who was reported as a full-time employee of five school districts at the same time, must pay back $83,624 to the state for receiving a pension to which he was not entitled, the New York State comptroller's office...

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has revoked the pension of a private attorney from a politically prominent Garden City law firm, along with those of two upstate attorneys, bringing to 28 the number of people who have lost pensions or pension credits...

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has revoked the pension of a private attorney from a politically prominent Garden City law firm, along with those of two upstate attorneys, bringing to 28 the number of people who have lost pensions or pension credits...

CHICAGO (AP) -- When Barack Obama arrived at the Democratic National Convention eight years ago, he was a politician in need of clout. He had just been trounced in his bid for Congress. His credit card was rejected at the car rental counter. He couldn'...

Investors who say they were victims of an alleged $20-million real estate scam -- run out of Great Neck by two convicted felons -- are suing a high-powered Long Island law firm that advised the real estate principals. According to a class-action suit...

Robert Basso, the president of Advantage Payroll Services in Hicksville, has his fingers on the pulse of the local job market. With 2,400 clients, he knows which job sectors are hot and which are cold. Take law firms: "The law firms that deal with...

Activist shareholder Warren Kanders, a vocal critic of Federal Signal Corp.'s management, called publicly Monday for the resignation of company Chairman James Janning. Kanders said Janning "may have been involved in a coverup of insider trading" by...

Peggy Foran, third of six children, said she learned early on the importance of being a "listener, facilitator and peacemaker, and of being entrepreneurial to make extra money." When a high school teacher solicited students to raise money for foreign...