The law that forces the daughter of a monarch to make way for her younger brother in the succession could be abolished under new equality legislation. Ministers want to give women equal rights to succeed the throne, ending the rule of primogeniture set down under the provisions of the 1701 Act of Settlement. The change […]
Thomas Capano, the once prominent Delaware lawyer, has lost his bid for a new trial on charges of murdering his mistress in 1996 now that a federal judge has rejected his argument that the jury should have had the option of convicting him on a lesser charge such as manslaughter or second-degree murder. Capano’s lawyer,
Former Fannie Mae Chief Executive Officer Franklin Raines agreed to pay $24.7 million as part of a settlement with regulators for his role in overstating earnings at the largest U.S. mortgage-finance company. Former Chief Financial Officer Timothy Howard will surrender $6.4 million in compensation and other money, and Leanne Spencer, who was the Washington-based company’s
What is 66 years of attorney time worth? On April 8 Philadelphia federal district court judge Harvey Bartle III came up with an answer in the gargantuan fen-phen class action: a little more than $567.67 million. That’s the total he awarded to plaintiffs’ lawyers in the case, which has been dragging on since 1999. Judge
A moratorium on the death penalty that began when the Supreme Court agreed to review the lethal injection method has turned out not to be a pivotal moment in the justices’ ongoing struggle with capital punishment. The halt in executions that started in late September is likely to end by late spring as states restart
William D. Henderson is an associate professor at Indiana University School of Law — Bloomington. Andrew P. Morriss is the H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor of Law and Business at University of Illinois College of Law – Deciding where to go to law school is a difficult decision for many applicants. Law school is
To redress what it terms a “persistent lack of diversity” in the legal profession, one of the nation’s largest corporate law firms will commit $9.6 million over the next decade toward an honors program designed to encourage and support minority students at the City College of New York to become attorneys. The Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Citigroup Inc has won the dismissal of much of a multibillion-dollar New Jersey lawsuit over its alleged role in the 2003 collapse of Parmalat SpA, the Italian food company. The largest U.S. bank still faces a May 5 jury trial in the case. But Tuesday’s ruling by Judge Jonathan Harris of Bergen County Superior Court
This is a very meritocratic environment,” says Kathy Honeywood, a corporate partner at Clifford Chance. “I have never come across any direct discrimination because I’m a woman,” reports Claire Smith at The Times. Nevertheless, in a notoriously male-dominated sector, Honeywood often finds herself the only woman around the meeting table. Fifty-one per cent of solicitors
Robert K. Steel leans forward, speaking in a rapid, excitable burst about the powers that a superregulator might wield over Wall Street one day. “It will have the license to go everywhere: private equity funds, investment banks, hedge funds,” Mr. Steel, the under secretary of the Treasury for domestic finance, said in an interview last
