Moving through the crowd, the white-haired, chunky, effervescent lawyer works as hard as a campaign politician. A crunching squeeze of the arm for one man, […]

Since the turn of the century, the legal profession has claimed the privilege of regulating its own affairs—its ethics and finances and public services. Today […]

Many of the well-heeled lawyers who lounged in the sun and relaxed in posh hotel bars last month at the American Bar Association’s annual convention […]

When a 31-year-old manufacturing-company executive moved out of his rented home in Oregon, the landlady kept $125 of his $325 security deposit. That sort of […]

It might seem impossible for anyone to devise an auto-insurance plan more fouled up than the one now actually in effect in the U.S. Under […]

Hoping to reform their beleaguered industry on their own terms, 168 auto-insurance companies last week proposed sweeping revisions in the kind of coverage they now […]

About three quarters of the purchasers of automobiles pay for them on credit over the course of the following year. The theoretical risk to the […]

Crumpled cars, glazed-eyed victims, and blinking ambulance lights are depressingly familiar sights on the nation’s highways. U.S. traffic accidents last year killed 56,000 people and […]

Like many Californians in the fast lane, Julie Kulas believes that the good life calls for a sleek and stylish car. So when the Los […]

Increasingly, Big Data – make that Big Brother? – is in the front seat of your car, and is affecting how much you pay for […]