Mr. Voge, who heads the finance practice, can recite when each of the firm’s investment banking clients opened offices in the Middle East. And he knows how many law firms have established outposts there too: 20 since 2005. “This is the Silicon Valley, if you will, of the world,” Mr. Voge said. “It’s just beginning […]
Robert Frost once said: “A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” Although obviously a quite cynical view of our country’s jury system, Frost’s statement confirms the reality that clients have opinions about lawyers and act on those opinions. Yet, for nearly 150 years, clients’ opinions about their lawyers
Britain’s efforts to deport terrorist suspects including the radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada were dealt a serious blow by the European Court of Human Rights yesterday. In a unanimous decision, the court in Strasbourg ruled against an attempt by Italy to return a Tunisian to his home country. The Italian authorities had sought to have
Iraq’s three-member Presidency Council has approved the execution of Ali Hassan Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein known as “Chemical Ali,” said a high-ranking Iraqi government official today who was not authorized to speak on the subject. The official said there was no date set for the hanging, which must be carried out within 30
Using some of his toughest language in weeks, President Bush prodded Congress on Thursday to pass his preferred version of surveillance legislation, asserting that every day of delay could put the country in danger. Mr. Bush said again that renewing the surveillance legislation is “a very urgent priority,” and that it must include controversial provisions
European Union regulators fined Microsoft Corp. a record 899 million euros ($1.35 billion) for failing to comply with a 2004 antitrust order to stop overcharging for using its patents to connect to Windows. “Microsoft was the first company in 50 years of EU competition policy that the commission has had to fine for failure to
When Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald wanted to find out what was going on inside Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, the prosecutor in the CIA leak probe made a logical move. He dropped a grand jury subpoena on the White House for all the relevant e-mail. One problem: Even though White House computer technicians hunted high
Just as Kenya’s electoral crisis eases, a battle is brewing over a deeply flawed and highly contested election in another fractious, ethnically and religiously divided African nation, Nigeria. But this time the fight is taking place not between ethnic militants brandishing clubs and machetes in muddy alleyways of slums and villages. The fight over Nigeria’s
Leading London law firms are reforming their decades-old system of hourly charges under pressure from clients complaining of high fees at a time of soaring legal industry profits. Top firms told the Financial Times they were increasingly offering alternatives to hourly rates and making more use of cost-cutting business practices, such as putting services offshore.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone will contest luxury car maker Porsche’s threatened legal challenge over his plan to tax gas guzzling cars driving in the city centre, a mayoral spokeswoman said on Saturday. In launching its proposed challenge last week Porsche said the 25 pound ($50) daily charge was unfair, would not cut emissions of carbon
