Two Chicago law firms fired attorneys this week, and more layoffs loom as firms retrench in the face of financial tumult hitting their corporate clients. Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal let go of about 24 lawyers out of 680, the second round of dismissals this year, and Katten Muchin Rosenman laid off 21 out of 650, […]
Frequent Kremlin critic and prominent human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko was hospitalized after inhaling fumes released by several mercury pellets discovered in her car in Strasbourg. Moskalenko represents the family of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and her suspected mercury poisoning happened just a day before a scheduled preliminary hearing on Wednesday in Moscow on
It reads like a chapter from a hard-boiled detective novel: Narcotics officer Sean Devlin is working undercover in a neighborhood “tough as a three-dollar steak. Devlin knew. Five years on the beat, nine months with the Strike Force. He’d made fifteen, twenty drug busts in the neighborhood.” But it’s not. This is how U.S. Supreme
Slowly but surely, the Supreme Court is creeping into the presidential election debate, with accessories included. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights is offering palm cards for voters telling them how important this election will be to the future of the Court. “If public schools in your community decide to adopt an integrated educational program,
A woman who admitted fabricating a best-selling memoir about surviving the Holocaust as a child by living with wolves has won a court battle with her former publisher. Misha Defonseca’s 1997 book, “Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years,” was translated into 18 languages, made into a feature film in France, and drew interest from
The polls aren’t the only thing favoring Sen. Barack Obama: Washington, D.C.’s top law firms have given the Democratic presidential nominee more than triple the cash they’ve donated to Republican Sen. John McCain. Big D.C. firms typically skew blue, but the divide is even wider than it was four years ago, when Sen. John Kerry
U.S. law firms, anticipating a huge rise in lawsuits and other legal work spurred by the economic crisis, are creating task forces to advise financial firms, investment funds and local governments to deal with the turmoil. The financial market woes could help boost business for big corporate law firms whose mergers and acquisitions practices, which
Barack Obama’s money machine is fueled by the likes of Martha Murphy, a grandmother who has donated 104 times for a total of $2,475.34. Murphy has used her credit card to donate in amounts as small as $10. “It is amazing how it adds up,” she said. Obama has revolutionized campaign fundraising, employing the Internet
With public anger reaching a boiling point over plunging stock prices and Wall Street “greed,” white-collar defense attorneys are preparing for an inevitable surge in criminal prosecutions. Stanley S. Arkin, for one, said he expects that the anger, hysteria and economic dislocation fueled by “imprudent credit policies” will “inspire” indictments that would not have been
Former Linklaters managing partner for CEE Jason Mogg will lead the new firm, which will have a close association with Linklaters. Mogg revealed that a branding company came up with the firm’s name, deriving Kinstellar from an anagram of Linklaters. “We didn’t set out to have an anagram but we liked the name. We wanted
