A restitution hearing is set for today in the criminal battery case. But the Egyptian actor has no intention of paying a $445,000 civil judgment in the 2005 Beverly Hills incident. Omar Sharif became a film idol playing men who went to war, from a sheik who took on the Turks in “Lawrence of Arabia” […]
In the face of tighter lending markets, law firms are looking increasingly to their partnerships to raise capital rather than relying on other lending sources, according to this story in today’s NLJ. Another factor weighing on capital reserves: longer client payment cycles. As clients suffer through a slowing economy, they take longer to pay their
As a Los Angeles county prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi batted a thousand in murder cases: 21 trials, 21 convictions, including the Charles Manson case in 1971. As an author, Mr. Bugliosi has written three No. 1 best sellers and won three Edgar Allan Poe awards, the top honor for crime writers. More than 30 years ago
Is it possible that the legal job market is finally getting better? That’s the suggestion from Thursday’s unemployment report from the Labor Department. While 62,000 non-farm payroll jobs disappeared nationally in June throughout the country, the legal service sector added jobs. After suffering three months of job losses, the legal industry saw employment nudge up
Broward Chief Judge Victor Tobin is being sued for defamation and accused of misleading the state Legislature and the County Commission about the cost of a program that handled traffic cases for the county, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. In what amounts to a whistle-blower complaint, ex-Broward Judge Jay Spechler is suing his former
A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database linking users of YouTube, the Web’s largest video site by far, with every clip they have watched there. The order raised concerns among users and privacy advocates that the online video viewing habits of tens of millions of people
It’s A-List season at The American Lawyer. For the sixth year, the magazine applied the A-List algorithm to The Am Law 200 to determine the firms that best embody what it means to be a success in the legal community. As always, there were surprises. There’s a new A-List champ, Munger, Tolles & Olson, which
The legal industry isn’t known for innovation. But a few upstarts have come up with a business model that challenges the tight grip big law firms hold on corporate business. This new breed of firms is landing blue-chip clients and, in the process, making money. The newcomers aim to provide highly qualified lawyers, often working
Most Americans now believe that cell phone usage while driving can cause incidents In fact, a new law has just been recently passed banning the use of cell phones while driving because of the increase in accidents. But how many know that cell phones cause more injuries than just auto accidents? It is rare to
Why are we asking this now? The Portuguese authorities revealed yesterday that the country’s Policia Judiciaria (PJ) have completed their final report into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who vanished from the flat in a holiday village on the Algarve where her parents were staying with seven friends in May 2007. A state prosecutor must
