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Accused hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam did not get secrets about Advanced Micro Devices Inc and eBay Inc from a former high-placed friend because the information was already public, his lawyer argued at trial on Wednesday.

TORONTO - Lionsgate is partnering with Groupon to sell half-price $6.00 tickets for The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei and Ryan Phillippe. The film is opening wide this Friday.

Years ago when nude photos of actress Vanessa Hudgens surfaced, she probably thought that nightmare was over. Little did she know those photos would come back to haunt her

President Barack Obama on Friday defended the military's treatment of a soldier accused of leaking classified State Department cables which have been released by whistleblower site Wikileaks, as a key State Department official resigned on Sunday after criticizing the military.

Charlie Sheen had a little surprise visit Thursday night from the Los Angeles Police Department. Officers raided his home searching for firearms.

Troubled actor Charlie Sheen is trying to take revenge on the corporate trolls who fired him from his hit TV show Two and a Half Men.

Congress is preparing to pass the first major changes to patent law in more than a half a century, but some experts say it may not make much difference in the spate of technology company lawsuits.

According to OK! Magazine, the actor plans to sue the creator of the show, Chuck Lorre, as well as the production company Warner Bros Inc.

At a time law graduates would sell their arms and legs and maybe something more to get into a BigLaw, a Sidley Austin associate has dumped his cushy job to go hiking from Delaware to California with a tent and his dog, Mabel.

The lawyers representing former Pennsylvanian judge Mark Ciavarella, who was convicted last month by a federal jury in Scranton of 12 of the 39 counts in the 'kids for cash' case, said he is innocent and are seeking an acquittal or a new trial.

A sweeping insider trading case that shook the hedge fund world is finally set for trial, with onetime billionaire Raj Rajaratnam fighting to stay out of prison in a courtroom drama over corporate secrets, tapped telephones and friends-turned-government witnesses.

Foreign banks have not gotten the message when it comes to helping American clients avoid paying taxes, a top U.S. tax prosecutor said on Thursday.

Renowned designer, John Galliano’s recent anti-Semitic video has created ripples of shock in the fashion industry.

Jon Huntsman is a savvy operator who knows how to work a crowd. But it was someone in a crowd who worked Huntsman on a bitterly cold Sunday last month when the U.S. envoy to China was seen at a small anti-government protest in Beijing.

A jailed former Societe Generale trader convicted of theft of speed-trading computer code secrets was sentenced to 36 months in prison on Monday.

The top attorney for the U.S. securities regulator was advised not to recuse himself from handling Bernard Madoff matters for the agency, even though his family's estate had invested with the swindler.

A British Airways IT expert who conspired to blow up an airplane has been convicted of terror charges.

Veteran Egyptian diplomat Amr Moussa said on Sunday he intends to run for president, a post held for three decades by Hosni Mubarak until he was toppled from power by a mass uprising this month.

Top lawyers are deserting Howrey en masse and are joining rival law firms in search of greener pastures.

Mark Ciavarella, the former Pennsylvania judge who was convicted of racketeering and tax fraud last Friday, has been called a 'scumbag' by a grieving mother whose son committed suicide last year.

A federal court is on the verge of throwing out a lawsuit filed by Maine homeowners facing foreclosure action against Ally Financial Inc.'s GMAC mortgage unit, which has been accused of wrongful foreclosure practices.