Law Firms

It took more than a year for a dogged Texan lawyer, Brent Coon, to get the former BP boss Lord Browne to answer questions on the legal record about the Texas City oil disaster. It turns out that the noble lord’s knowledge of the tragedy was fuzzy, to say the least. A transcript was made […]

A common provision found in many law firm partnership agreements, which requires a written-notice period prior to a partner’s withdrawal from the partnership, can have calamitous results, particularly when combined with the competing fiduciary duties law firm partners owe to both their partners and their clients. Such provisions often place the departing partner in a

A deadline for ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to appeal against extradition to the Netherlands on genocide and other charges has expired. An appeal notice is said to have been posted by his lawyer just before 2000 (1800 GMT) at an unknown location in Serbia in order to delay the process. Any appeal is expected

The social networking site filed a lawsuit against German site StudiVZ.com July 18 that alleges copyright infringement. But Facebook’s most successful look-alike–and perhaps the ultimate target of its legal ire–could be China’s Xiaonei.com. Xiaonei closely mimics Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook’s blue and white design, and the site’s founder, Wang Xing, told Forbes.com in June that

Craig Johnson, the Silicon Valley lawyer-entrepreneur who brought you the Venture Law Group, is onto his next big thing: a virtual law firm. Johnson and 14 other lawyers unveiled the new firm, called Virtual Law Partners, on Friday. The idea is to have more work-life balance, work from home, save on overhead, charge clients less,

Lawyers won’t have to be slaves to the billable hour for much longer, according to the panel of experts participating in “Flexing the Workplace,” a roundtable discussion held in the New York offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell and sponsored by the National Association of Women Lawyers. Timed to coincide with NAWL’s annual awards luncheon

A federal judge in Washington has refused to halt the war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden’s former driver. The action clears the way for what is expected to become the first trial of a terror suspect via military commission at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Monday. Lawyers for Salim Ahmed Hamden had asked US District

Score one for the Web. A judge’s decision in favor of electronic commerce giant eBay on July 14 is being heralded as a victory for companies across the Internet that rely on advertising or the buying and selling of goods. Luxury retailer Tiffany & Co. had sued eBay, accusing the site of not doing enough

The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court on Monday asked for an arrest warrant against Sudan’s President Omar al-Beshir for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. Beshir had “personally instructed” his forces to annihilate three ethnic groups in the western Sudanese region, prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told journalists in The Hague. “His motives