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The quality of a journalist’s notetaking took centre stage in a court case yesterday that will determine whether a City firm can proceed with a £230m libel action against the Financial Times. Lawyers acting for Collins Stewart Tullett, which is suing the FT over an article published in August 2003, tried to persuade Tony Tassell

The Supreme Court’s first case – Act versus MP Donna Awatere Huata – started chaotically yesterday with a shortage of seats leading to some reporters being barred from the opening stages of the historic first sitting. Oddly for a courtroom, the venue for the first real sitting of New Zealand’s replacement for Britain’s Privy Council

Pitcairn Island women do not live an idyllic South Pacific life, but one dominated by fear and sexual abuse which saw them raped as young girls by the island’s men, descendents of 18th century Bounty mutineers, a court has heard. “The girls are treated as though they are a sex thing,” a former Pitcairn woman,

Three British bankers facing extradition to the U.S. on Enron Corp.-related fraud charges accused the U.S. government of using the proceedings as a weapon to pressure the men into implicating senior Enron officials in the alleged crimes. David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew and Giles Darby were indicted on seven counts of wire fraud by a Houston

Pittsburgh’s largest law firm, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, said yesterday that it would merge with English firm Nicholson Graham & Jones, giving it one of the five largest London offices among U.S. law firms. The combination, approved unanimously by partners on both sides of the Atlantic, will form Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, with 950

Pinsents and Masons are just weeks away from agreeing to a merger that would forge a national giant dubbed Pinsent Masons, it has emerged. The surprise talks are thought to have been going on for a number of months and are now at an advanced stage, leaving a vote in favour of the deal the

Piper Rudnick has opened early discussions with Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich about a merger between the two firms, according to law firm consultant Peter Zeughauser. Although firm leaders won’t say whether they’re negotiating, the two firms — themselves both products of past mergers — have made no secret of their desire to grow. Such

North Korea has taken a further tentative step on its economic reform path after it allowed the country’s first law firm to open on a Pyongyang square named after the communist state’s founder, Kim Il-sung. British lawyer-turned-consultant Michael Hay told four foreign reporters the firm he jointly owns with an outfit spun off from an

A probe at Hollinger International has concluded the company’s former chief executive – newspaper tycoon Lord Black – colluded with associates to systematically loot the company of nearly all of its profits over the past seven years. And the report says the staggering figure involved is more than £222m. It detailed how Black lavished the

The American Lawyer’s A-List is a carefully weighted ranking based on AL’s surveys of The Am Law 200, the highest-grossing U.S.- headquartered firms. The top 20 firms — the top 10 percent — made The A-List, a ranking we called the new elite, or the top tier. Many of the firms that made the list