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Jurors in Ted Stevens’ corruption trial discovered a mistake in the Alaska senator’s indictment Monday, an embarrassing gaffe for Justice Department prosecutors that could benefit the senator. Stevens, the Senate’s longest-serving Republican, is charged with lying on Senate financial documents about $250,000 in home renovations and gifts he received from a millionaire oil contractor. Among […]

In a seminar at New York University School of Law on Thursday night, Lipton was part of a panel that included retired Goldman Sachs Chairman Stephen Friedman (currently the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York) and Joseph Rice III, the founder and chairman of New York-based private equity firm Clayton Dubilier &

Who’s the person for the top spot, the Attorney General? From the Obama camp comes: Eric HolderCurrently: Partner, Covington & BurlingLaw school: Columbia (1976) Holder and Obama have been friends since they hit it off at a dinner party in 2004. He is the consummate Washington insider—a familiar fixture in the Clinton administration, but well-known

Fees could reach a record $1.4 billion for lawyers, accountants and other professionals working on the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. bankruptcy, the largest in U.S. history. The biggest winner will be New York-based law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Lehman’s adviser, with an estimated $209 million in fees, said Lynn LoPucki, who teaches bankruptcy law

A journalism student from northern Afghanistan has had his controversial death sentence for blasphemy commuted to 20 years in jail. Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, 24, was sent to prison in October 2007 after reportedly downloading material from the internet on women’s rights in Islam. A court is his home city of Mazar-e-Sharif condemned him to death.

An epic legal battle going to trial in federal court in San Francisco this week will ask jurors to decide whether oil giant Chevron Corp. sanctioned human rights abuses that killed and wounded protesters at its Nigerian facilities, or was simply protecting its employees from belligerent kidnappers. The decade-long legal fight has produced a 2,000-item

Turkey’s most important political trial in more than a decade starts near Istanbul today, amid hopes the country may finally be able to crush shadowy criminal groups that, for decades, have hobbled its democratic development. The 86 defendants, prominent secularists and right-wingers united only by their authoritarian ultra-nationalism, stand accused of attempting to remove the

The federal financial bailout contained a small inroad on the national dominance by Delaware law and courts on corporate governance issues, but that state and its courts soon may see larger federal vehicles barreling toward them because of the economic crisis. Delaware has been nearly synonymous with corporate law for more than a century. The