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The ABA Journal has taken a look at the lawyers who could run America – the next top lawyers for a McCain or an Obama presidency. The magazine has matched the job with the person who is most often mentioned for it.

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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 […]

The ABA Journal has taken a look at the lawyers who could run America – the next top lawyers for a McCain or an Obama presidency. The magazine has matched the job with the person who is most often mentioned for it. Read More »

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.

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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

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. Read More »

Paul Lippe takes a look at how London – home to four of the six biggest law firms in the world)has coped with the downturn and looks at the key factors likely to have an impact on demand for legal services.

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As travelers have noted since time immemorial, the best way to enrich your perspective on your own culture is to step outside it and visit someone else’s. I spent last week in London (home of four of the six biggest law firms in the world), talking to clients and law firms. I’ll offer some observations

Paul Lippe takes a look at how London – home to four of the six biggest law firms in the world)has coped with the downturn and looks at the key factors likely to have an impact on demand for legal services. Read More »

A journalism student from northern Afghanistan has had his controversial death sentence for blasphemy commuted to 20 years in jail.

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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.

A journalism student from northern Afghanistan has had his controversial death sentence for blasphemy commuted to 20 years in jail. Read More »

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.

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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

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. Read More »

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.

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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

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. Read More »

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.

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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

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. Read More »

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.

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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,

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. Read More »

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. She represents the family of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya

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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

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. She represents the family of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya Read More »

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