Law professors are mindful of where their scholarship lands, particularly when it’s in a court decision. Douglas A. Berman, who focuses on criminal sentencing law at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, is no exception. He considers citation counts the “currency of a law professor’s work.” While Berman has penned more than 50 law
Gaunt, pale and weary but distinctively impertinent, Saddam Hussein emerged from a hunger strike for closing defense arguments today in the first trial examining the alleged crimes of his deposed government. The former Iraqi president, sturdy though fed through a tube for more than two weeks and hospitalized for the last three days, lashed out
Rob Moodie, 67, a former representative rugby player and Police Association secretary, turned heads at the High Court in Wellington yesterday when he arrived for a hearing dressed in a skirt and carrying a handbag. Dr Moodie, a married father of three, says his behaviour is not a publicity stunt. He is heterosexual but has
Some of their biggest corporate clients are demanding that they increase the number of minority and women associates and partners. Indeed, for some companies, diversity is as important as cost-cutting and performance when evaluating which law firm to hire. And they are threatening to fire firms that do not show enough progress. Until recently, “law
Who can forget the voices of Enron’s traders, caught on tape as a damaging wildfire raged during the California energy crisis, exulting in the profits they were reaping from the state’s misery? “Burn, baby, burn,” one said gleefully. Many of those tapes would never have seen the light of day if it weren’t for a
Headed by the redoutable Jonathan Sumption QC and Jonathan Hirst QC, Brick Court Chambers remains the UK’s largest set by turnover and is one of only four chambers to post a revenue per barrister figure of more than £500,000. The set’s case list is one to be envied. The year saw Sir Sydney Kentridge QC
Hogan & Hartson was on a roll as it marked its 100th anniversary in November 2004. The firm was in the middle of an international expansion, was seeing a big jump in corporate work, and remained — in spite of greater competition inside the Beltway — the largest firm in Washington, D.C. Partners were in
But just as education and the NHS need reform, so too does legal aid. Legal aid spending is rising to unaffordable levels, and the balance of expenditure is wrong. We need to redirect and rebalance the system. Governments of different political stripes have been wrestling with this problem for years. Our job is to provide
A draft of the European Commission ruling is due to be presented to competition watchdogs from the 25 EU member states today. According to several people close to the case, it will find Microsoft guilty of violating antitrust rules by ignoring the Commission’s landmark 2004 ruling against the group, which was accompanied by a record
The lobbyist feared information in the document could be damaging to his clients’ interests, the inspector general said, and he used his knowledge of its contents to warn them and to devise a counterattack. ‘Abramoff’s e-mail records indicate that by late June 2002 he had obtained a copy of the report from an official of
