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Hollywood’s descending on the royal city of Mysore! Not to put the city’s palaces as backdrops for its movies. But to outsource legal research, legal analysis, legal opinion and contract drafting services. Production houses like 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures and Universal Studios have roped in Mysore-headquartered SDD Global Solutions to support the legal requirements […]

A federal criminal investigation has been opened into an oil spill in San Francisco Bay that began when a cargo ship hit the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge last week, the U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday. “The U.S. attorney’s office has opened a criminal investigation,” Coast Guard Lt. Anya Hunter told reporters. The oil spilled from

Labour has accused the Tories of returning to their “disgraced, scandal-ridden past” after it emerged that Conservative former Cabinet minister and ex-prisoner Jonathan Aitken is being rehabilitated into the political fold. Mr Aitken will head a study on prison reform for think-tank the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), which advises David Cameron on social issues.

The sacking of Heather Mills by her lawyers Mishcon de Reya means that her divorce wrangle with Sir Paul McCartney is now all but certain to go to trial. The loss of her lawyers means that Ms Mills may now have to act for herself in the complex negotiations unless she can find another law

Michael J. Garcia has been the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York since 2003, but has generally kept a far lower profile than, say, one of his predecessors, Rudolph W. Giuliani, who held the same job in the 1980s. But today Mr. Garcia stood in front of the television cameras for

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s battle with Peter Bloxham, a former partner who unsuccessfully sued for age discrimination, took a new twist this week when the firm said that they would pursue him for their legal costs. Freshfields, who won a unanimous victory last month, confirmed that they had written to the Employment Tribunal raising the issue

In a telephone address to lawyers in Pakistan’s capital, the ousted chief justice of the Supreme Court urged the lawyers today to continue to defy the state of emergency imposed by the president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. In the second day of protests, police arrested 50 lawyers in the eastern city of Lahore and clashes broke

Following revelations that an adviser and top fundraiser to Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign had a history as a drug dealer, bookie and reluctant taxpayer, that adviser resigned, according to a statement released by the Thompson campaign. An e-mailed statement from the campaign to reporters quoted Philip Martin as saying he had decided to step down