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Sullivan & Cromwell has kicked off the year-end bonus season by informing associates they will receive additional compensation starting at $30,000 for first-years and ranging up to $50,000 for senior associates. The bonus, which pushes total first-year compensation to $155,000, is unchanged from last year, a fact likely to disappoint many associates, especially since bonuses

Alex Kozinski, a federal appeals court judge in California, was a little miffed last year when a blog called Underneath Their Robes, a dishy hybrid of People magazine and The Harvard Law Review, failed to list him as a candidate for “male superhottie of the federal judiciary.” So he nominated himself (“discerning females and gay

After a lull in growth at the 250 largest law firms in the U.S., the pace is picking up. The annual survey by The National Law Journal shows the overall number of attorneys increased by 4.4 percent this year, compared to a paltry 1.5 percent and 1.6 percent the two prior years. And although familiar

When Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. accepted his nomination to the Supreme Court with President Bush standing over his shoulder like a proud father, Alito dropped an unsubtle hint that he will be tough to mess with. “I argued my first case before the Supreme Court in 1982, and I still vividly recall that day,”

Thirteen years have passed since the liquidators of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International began their suit against the Bank of England. The case finally came to court in January 2004. And now it has collapsed, after the two sides racked up legal bills of more than £100 million. It might not have lasted

A Texas court agreed today that a Democratic judge should be removed from Representative Tom Delay’s criminal trial because of the judge’s contributions to Democratic candidates and causes. The decision came this afternoon after several hours of testimony in which Mr. Delay’s lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, said that the contributions by the judge in the case,

President Bush nominated Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, to the Supreme Court today, four days after his previous choice withdrew her nomination. The nomination is likely to please Mr. Bush’s conservative allies, whose sharp attacks on Harriet E. Miers were instrumental in prompting her

After almost five years on the run, the conman who stole the most valuable domain name in the world, sex.com, was today handed over to US authorities. The arrest of Stephen Cohen, 57, is the latest twist in the most extraordinary legal epic from the dot.com boom: a virtual tug-of-war which became a multi-million dollar

A federal grand jury today indicted Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, after a two-year investigation into the leak of a CIA agent’s identity, but spared — at least for now –President Bush’s top political strategist, Karl Rove. Libby was indicted on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and making false

With the withdrawal of Harriet Miers as a nominee to the Supreme Court, attention is now turning to President Bush’s other possible choices, and the field is wide open, legal experts say. Although some senators want Bush to nominate another woman as a replacement for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who is retiring, Miers’s pullout could