Law Firms

Europe’s highest court will hear a trademark infringement suit concerning Google’s keyword advertising system, a case that ventures into an untested area of law that could impact the company’s lucrative ad revenue. Fashion retailer Louis Vuitton won a lawsuit in France over Google’s AdWords system, where advertisers bid for keywords. The keywords are used to […]

The last time Washington attorney Eric Holder participated in a high-profile vetting, it was for fugitive financier Marc Rich. The episode in 2001 became the final scandal of the Clinton administration and landed Holder, at the time the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, in the middle of a congressional investigation. Now Holder, a

The career of one of the nation’s most entrepreneurial, controversial, philanthropic and rich lawyers came to a close Monday, as Melvyn Weiss was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in an alleged scheme in which he and his partners used kickbacks to gain an advantage in lucrative cases. Mr. Weiss pleaded guilty

Gordon Brown has insisted he will press on with plans to increase the detention without trial limit for terror suspects to 42 days in the face of widespread opposition. The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, will attend a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party tonight to confront MPs who are threatening to inflict a humiliating defeat

Why couldn’t Clarence Thomas get a job with a big-city law firm when he graduated from Yale in 1974? It’s not an idle question. That “time of dashed hopes and expectations,” as Thomas once described it in a speech, still leaves him bitter. His frustration resonates in the autobiography that he published last fall, “My

Junior London lawyers — especially in property and banking — should not expect large salary hikes this year, but the best midlevel associates remain in demand, according to new research. Those are the key findings of a recent survey, which underlines widespread expectations that the current slowdown in commercial activity has ended the upward pressure

Anonymous attorney blogs, online rantings, negative press releases sent via mass mailings. These days, any number of self-publication methods are available to lawyers looking to spin their cases — or others’. As Dan Ross, a litigator at Stroock & Stroock, puts it, “In the old days you could have 25 cases and you could say