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When the founders of King & Wood — now the largest law firm in the People’s Republic of China — chose that name 11 years ago, it wasn’t about ego. “Actually, we do not have a Mr. King and a Mr. Wood,” says Wei Zhang, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based partner in the firm. Instead, the

Plans to cut the amount of money spent on legal aid and stop criminal trials over-running in England and Wales are to be unveiled by the Lord Chancellor. Under the proposals, lawyers would bid for legal aid contracts and they would have to foot the bill if a criminal case lasted longer than expected. Since

A top fund-raiser for failed Republican gubernatorial nominee Jim Ryan who later was reappointed to key state posts by Gov. Blagojevich, was rousted out of bed early Monday by FBI agents and hauled into court on fraud charges alleging kickbacks, influence-peddling and insider dealing. All told, Stuart P. Levine, 59, abused his positions on the

The two former directors of the Walt Disney Company never much liked Robert A. Iger, Michael D. Eisner’s choice as his successor, and now they are going after the company and members of the board of directors for choosing Mr. Iger as the next chief executive. Robert A. Iger will assume the duties of chief

The attorney who successfully argued the Blakely and Crawford cases in debut appearances before the Supreme Court. The youngest dean in Columbia Law School history. The first woman to become attorney general of Illinois. These attorneys and others, who’ve made partner, overseen multibillion-dollar mergers and coordinated cases on multiple continents, all before age 40, are

At Mallesons Stephen Jaques, chief executive partner Robert Milliner says: “Our hours have been reduced for some categories in response to feedback and our targets haven’t changed.” The firm has a target of 1500 hours a year. Milliner continues: “While I know that in London and New York lawyers can be expected to do 2000

Tony Blair’s government has been accused of committing war crimes in Iraq in a complaint by the families of dead British soldiers to the International Criminal Court. The group of 10 bereaved families claims that British troops were unlawfully ordered to use cluster bombs near civilian areas and to destroy essential power supplies which affected

The chief of the U.N. oil-for-food probe accused Congress of jeopardizing his work and asked a House committee to return secret documents, saying the lives of some witnesses could be at stake. But the Republican lawmaker who heads the committee promptly refused. Former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker is seeking to dampen controversy over recent

Eliot Spitzer and the US Justice Department are trying to determine whether Maurice “Hank” Greenberg tried to manipulate the share price of American International Group a month before he was ousted as chief executive. The investigation, which was first reported by the New York Times, increases the chances Mr Greenberg could face criminal charges over

A lawyer working for an oil-equipment company shot to death a fellow attorney while the two were sitting at a desk Thursday morning, then killed himself, police said. The victim, shot in the head, was a patent lawyer with Cooper Cameron oil services. The men’s names were not immediately released. Police said they were in