Abbott SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - A Seattle-based blogger and Google's general counsel are questioning whether Microsoft is pulling the strings in the Texas attorney general's office.
Blumenthal HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he wants proof that Craigslist has done away with its adult services section for good.
Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Former Bank of America Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis has filed what some are calling an "aggressive response" to a civil fraud lawsuit from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Sean Coffey, a Democrat running for New York attorney general, has made thousands of dollars in campaign contributions nationwide in the last 10 years, according to a review of his political donations by the Wall Street Journal.
Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has subpoenaed six additional insurers as the State continues its probe into whether life insurance companies have defrauded families of deceased military members.
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Recently released documents show that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood asked for the advice of plaintiffs attorneys who later became felons when crafting a rebuttal to a 2007 Wall Street Journal editorial.
Miller WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A group of Democratic state attorneys general are excited that President Barack Obama signed federal financial reform legislation into law Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The Wall Street Journal took on the issue of a possible tax break for lawyers working on contingency fees in an editorial Thursday.
Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Criticism of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has hit the television airwaves, with a banking analyst calling him the "father of the subprime crisis."
Cuomo DURHAM, N.C. (Legal Newsline) - The way Duke University professor and former North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Michael Munger sees it, there can be only two reasons New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is suing Bank of America -- and neither of them are good.
Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - More editorials are questioning the merits of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's recently filed lawsuit against Bank of America.
McCollum TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's office was confused by a recent request from Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, while his campaign office was outraged.
Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - While New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has said Bank of America's merger with Merrill Lynch helped lead to the near-collapse of the financial system, a Wall Street Journal editorial says that feeling is misguided.
Greg Abbott (R) AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline)--Attorneys general of several states have been getting negative press lately for hiring campaign donors as outside counsel in public pension fund shareholder litigation. Texas, however, has remained above the fray.
McCollum TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - A prominent New York plaintiffs firm has withdrawn its application to represent the state of Florida in securities lawsuits one day after a Wall Street Journal report chronicled its campaign contribution strategy.
McCollum TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Not that he had an advance copy, but Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum could see one of the articles in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal coming.
Jerry Brown (D) BOSTON (Legal Newsline)-An institutional bank California Attorney General Jerry Brown is suing announced Friday it was boosting its legal reserves significantly.
Tom Harkin (D) WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-A U.S. Senate panel this week will consider a handful of presidential nominees for key posts, possibly without probing their positions on important legal issues.
McCollum TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - A bill that would have reformed contingency fee contracts in the Florida Attorney General's Office died Friday when the House of Representatives refused to accept an amendment to the bill added by the Senate.