Law Firms

Representative Rick Renzi, a Republican who represents a vast region of Arizona, has been indicted on charges of using his office to enrich himself through a complex land swap scam, federal prosecutors announced on Friday in Phoenix. The prosecutors said a grand jury on Thursday returned a 35-count indictment accusing Mr. Renzi, 49, and two […]

Investor lawsuits spurred by the U.S. subprime crisis likely will spread beyond the financial and housing sectors, as more companies reveal writedowns linked to bad mortgage investments, a shareholder lawyer said on Tuesday. Already, institutional investors have brought securities fraud class-action cases against lenders and banks related to their subprime mortgage businesses. Now, more big

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that individual participants in the most common type of retirement plan can sue under a pension protection law to recover their losses. The unanimous decision has implications for 50 million workers with $2.7 trillion invested in 401(k) retirement plans. James LaRue of Southlake, Texas, said the value of his stock

There has been a recent flurry of foreign dictators, oligarchs and despotic governments using the English courts to have a pop at anyone with whom they have a grievance. This has led to much comment on the rights and wrongs of “forum shopping”, but it also raises the issue of whether law firms should be

Five Long Island school districts falsely reported to the state that a part-time private attorney was a full-time employee in each district, enabling him to earn a public pension of nearly $62,000 and health benefits for life. At the same time, the districts paid his law firm more than $2.5 million in fees, records show.

Mohamed Al Fayed has been giving evidence at London’s Royal Courts of Justice at the inquest into the death of his son Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales. He said this was his moment. Stepping out of his chauffeured car and into the media glare Mohammed Al Fayed was defiant from the start. “I’ve been

British Airways and Virgin Atlantic have agreed to pay up to £100 million in compensation to passengers affected by price-fixing on fuel surcharges for transatlantic flights. Confirming a report in The Times, both airlines said this morning that they had agreed in principle to settle a US class-action lawsuit pending in a Californian court. The

A pretty good way to generate an outcry, as the archbishop of Canterbury learned in Britain recently, is to say that a Western legal system should make room for Shariah, or Islamic law. When the archbishop, spiritual leader of the world’s 80 million Anglicans, commented in a radio interview that such an accommodation was “unavoidable,”

The divorce battle between Paul McCartney and former model Heather Mills looked set on Friday to run into a second week. At stake is a slice of the former Beatle’s 825 million pound ($1.6 billion) fortune and a decision that could establish an important legal precedent about the short-lived marriages of the super-rich. After five

President Bush harshly criticized Democratic House leaders on Friday and charged that they left the country more vulnerable to terrorists after failing to pass legislation updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in time. A temporary FISA update, which was passed last August, expires Saturday, but the House went into recess without taking action on