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Jack Abramoff, the onetime flamboyant lobbyist who amassed a fortune by showering gifts on Congressional and executive branch officials while bilking Indian tribes of millions of dollars, was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison. Judge Ellen S. Huvelle of Federal District Court here ordered that Mr. Abramoff serve the time for corruption and tax […]

Just two weeks after merger talks between Baker & McKenzie and Heller Ehrman broke down over conflicts issues, Heller has entered into talks with Mayer Brown. News of the discussions was broken by Legal Week’s sister title The American Lawyer last week, with sources close to both firms revealing that California-based Heller is aggressively pursuing

Womble Carlyle takes its Web site very seriously. With 50 blogging attorneys, an Internet marketing manager, and a Web site facelift expected to go live by mid-September, Womble Carlyle sees its Web efforts as central to its vast marketing push. “We regard [the Web site] as the most important communications tool that we have,” says

The lawyer representing two Britons accused of having sex on a beach in Dubai said today that DNA and medical tests failed to prove they had intercourse. Vince Acors, 34, of Bromley, south-east London, and 36-year-old Michelle Palmer, of Oakham, Leicestershire, deny allegations of unmarried intercourse and public indecency on July 5. Following today’s adjournment

If Hurricane Gustav is anything like 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, lawyers who blog will be cut off from the outside world when the storm comes ashore and the power goes out. But Twitter — a microblogging service that limits posts to 140 characters and can be updated and read from cell phones — may provide a

Anthony Pellicano, a private investigator who once worked for Hollywood stars, and a prominent lawyer, Terry N. Christensen, were convicted Friday in the wiretapping of the ex-wife of the investor Kirk Kerkorian in a child-support case. Both Mr. Christensen and Mr. Pellicano, 65, were convicted of conspiracy to commit wiretapping in Federal District Court here.

If at first you don’t succeed, try, and try again. It’s a maxim that the management at Heller Ehrman has taken to heart over the past year as it has explored merging with one firm after another. A little over two weeks ago, discussions with Baker & McKenzie, the most substantive of Heller’s recent merger

Although he hasn’t practiced law in over 30 years, newly-minted vice presidential nominee Joe Biden remains a favorite son in the legal community. Like all potential VPs, Joe Biden was thoroughly vetted by the Obama campaign, his relationships to lobbyists carefully analyzed. The Am Law Daily did some of its own vetting of the new

Thousands of lawyers blocked roads across Pakistan on Thursday to press the government to reinstate judges purged by former president Pervez Musharraf, as militants attacked police in the northwest, killing 11 people. A bitter disagreement between the country’s two main political parties over the judges led to a split in the ruling coalition this week,