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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Hours after lawyers for Alex Murdaugh filed a request on Monday for an immediate federal seizure and an accounting of his assets under state control, the lawyers with custody of those assets replied with a request of their own. Shortly after 8 p.m. Monday, the office of John T. Lay, one of the two receivers who has had control over Murdaugh funds since November 2021, sent an email subpoena to Murdaugh lawyer Jim Griffin seeking various kinds of financial information, including: —Any engagement letters or contracts between Griffin and/or Paul Murdaugh and/or Alex Murdaugh. —Any......

NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office dropped its role Thursday defending the Hochul administration in litigation over the state’s responsibility to shelter migrants, a highly unusual step that appeared to suggest policy differences between two of the state’s most powerful Democrats. The Manhattan law firm Selendy Gay Elsberg has replaced James’ legal team in the case, according to a filing in Manhattan Supreme Court. The move came in a case centered on the city’s right-to-shelter mandate established in 1981, which mandates the city provide shelter to anyone who requests i......

From his high-security cell in a South Carolina prison, convicted killer Alex Murdaugh is still capable of sparking a legal uproar. In federal legal filings last week, Murdaugh said the heirs of his family’s late housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, who died of injuries from a 2019 fall at his house, should be made parties to a lawsuit by the insurance company that paid out $3.8 million for the fraudulent claim made after her death. That $3.8 million in insurance money from Nautilus Insurance was due to her sons — Brian Harriott and Tony Satterfield — but Murdaugh and accomplices carried out a sch......

The cloud over Hunter Biden seemed to grow darker last week when the Washington Post reported that federal agents have gathered what they believe is enough evidence to charge the president’s son with tax crimes and offenses related to his purchase of a handgun. Now it is up to the U.S. attorney for Delaware, David C. Weiss, to decide whether to bring a case, the Post reported Thursday. CBS News confirmed the Post’s account in a story Friday. Here’s a look at what’s known about the investigation and Weiss: What did the Post report?Two reporters who cover the Justice Department wrote that the Hu......

A Philadelphia-based attorney known for representing former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial has joined the defense team in a criminal case against the Trump Organization headed up by the Manhattan district attorney’s office. Michael van der Veen will defend the organization in the case. The firm announced van der Deen’s participation in a post to its website over the weekend, saying that the Trump Organization has filed an entry of his appearance in the case. Van der Veen did not immediately respond to request for comment. Prosecutors allege the company participated in a......

CHICAGO – In the array of former President Donald Trump’s lawsuits, lawyers have come and gone — about seven or eight teams of them. And singer R. Kelly’s criminal cases around his alleged sexual offenses have seen a similar, albeit smaller, revolving door of lawyers quitting and being fired. Lawyers withdrawing is fairly commonplace, but it “raises some red flags” and questions about why they did leave, according to Nicole Hallett, associate clinical professor of law at the University of Chicago. But can we know for sure why lawyers leave? And what might the reasons reveal about the cases — a......