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The vast profits being made by Britain’s top lawyers will be laid bare in a report to be published tomorrow which shows the leading 100 firms sharing revenues of £9.11bn and profits of £2.7bn. In response to mounting concern that lawyers are putting profits before ethics, the Law Society is planning to impose tough new

Some cried “foul,” but hiring used jurors is an ever more common practice, although it hasn’t been talked about much. And while in most states hiring a juror is not a crime or unethical under professional conduct rules, some in the legal community think it’s just not right. Lawyers hiring former jurors goes back at

Along with Saddam, Giovanni Di Stefano boasts clients such as Nicholas van Hoogstraten, the controversial property developer who was recently acquitted of manslaughter, timeshare fraudster John “Goldfinger” Palmer and “road rage” killer Kenneth Noye. He was interviewed in March on BBC World’sHardtalk programme, which said the lawyer’s “friends and clients read like a Who’s Who

Salem Chalabi, a US-qualified finance and capital markets lawyer, has been accused by Zuhair al-Maliky, Iraq’s chief investigating judge, of involvement in the murder in May of Haitham Fadhil, an official in the finance ministry. According to reports, Chalabi is vigorously denying the claims. After spending three years at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Chalabi moved

Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum & Morris plans to dissolve its current professional corporation to form a limited liability partnership, a structure commonly used by professionals such as accountants and lawyers to protect individual partner assets. In a suit filed Friday, Hirsch and three lawyers who joined him to set up a new practice alleged

When Abbott Laboratories planned the recent spinoff of its hospital products division, the company had the daunting task of setting up legal entities in more than 40 countries. To help accomplish the task, Abbott turned to Baker & McKenzie, a law firm based in Chicago that is the world’s largest, with more than 3,200 lawyers

Linklaters has been hit by another wave of partner defections to US firms after losing highly rated structured finance expert Richard Hughes to Sidley Austin Brown & Wood. At the same time, Latham & Watkins’ Paris office has taken a second capital markets partner from Linklaters in little over a year with the hire of

Famed defense lawyer Barry Scheck, whose Project Innocence has worked to free dozens of prisoners here and elsewhere, will ask federal courts to reform Louisiana’s system of providing the poor with legal counsel. Scheck, who gained international fame as O.J. Simpson’s DNA defense lawyer, has accepted Shreveport Sen. Lydia Jackson’s invitation to address the gubernatorial

There has been a trend among Chinese law firms in the past few years of growing big quickly by acquisition and merger. The trend has been, in part, spurred by China’s accession into the World Trade Organization three years ago, which will allow foreign law firms more opportunities to practise in China. A number of

Results for 2003/04 see top London firms suffer from a 7.6% drop in average profits per partner The Citys top 10 firms have suffered sharp falls in average partner profits, posting their worst results since the transactional downturn started in 2001. All of the top City firms have posted a fall in partner profits, with