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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

On August 13, 2007, Sullivan & Cromwell partner Steven Thomas and four members of his trial team passed up the five-star culinary options of Miami’s South Beach for dinner at a Denny’s in Coral Gables. It was an odd place for a gathering of high-powered lawyers. But Thomas, who was raised in Carl Junction, a

As the Bush administration announced a fresh plan to aid homeowners overburdened by their mortgages, initial figures suggest much-touted earlier efforts have done little to help most troubled borrowers. An earlier plan, brokered in December by the Treasury Department, called for the mortgage industry to freeze interest rates or expedite refinancing for potentially hundreds of

The “overwhelming” body of legal advice received by the Government in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was that it would be unlawful without a proper mandate by the United Nations, nine law lords were told yesterday. Lawyers at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office had made it clear that a second resolution

Military prosecutors have decided to seek the death penalty for six Guantánamo detainees who are to be charged with central roles in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, government officials who have been briefed on the charges said Sunday. The officials said the charges would be announced at the Pentagon as soon as Monday and were