Beresfords, a tiny firm of solicitors in Doncaster, has received £123m from the taxpayer by winning compensation claims on behalf of coal miners for work-related diseases, new government figures show. The head of the firm, Jim Beresford, had a personal salary of £16.7m in 2006 and two partners – one of whom was his daughter […]
The phone company Qwest Communications refused a proposal from the National Security Agency that the company’s lawyers considered illegal in February 2001, nearly seven months before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, the former head of the company contends in newly unsealed court filings. The executive, Joseph P. Nacchio, also asserts in the filings that
A federal judge in San Francisco ordered an indefinite delay yesterday of a central measure of the Bush administration’s new strategy to curb illegal immigration. The judge, Charles R. Breyer of the Northern District of California, said the government had failed to follow proper procedures for issuing a new rule that would have forced employers
A class-action lawsuit targeting Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc., filed last week in federal court, accuses the companies of illegally conspiring to tie iPhone customers to the telecommunications company’s wireless network. The lawsuit, which was filed in court in San Francisco the same day another was filed in a Sacramento state court, slaps the two
Close-up photographs of Diana, the Princess of Wales, taken by the paparazzi as she lay fatally injured in the wreckage of the Mercedes, were released to jurors at her inquest today. The pictures were partially pixelated but her blonde hair and the side of her face could still be made out. One, by photographer Laslo
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won its high-profile age discrimination battle against former partner Peter Bloxham, it was announced Wednesday. The Central London Employment Tribunal ruled unanimously in favor of Freshfields over Bloxham’s claim regarding a change in the firm’s pension scheme. It found that Freshfields had been discriminatory on the grounds of age when the
A former partner with a prestigious New York law firm that made an estimated $250 million by filing class-action lawsuits against some of America’s largest corporations pleaded guilty Tuesday to a racketeering conspiracy charge. Steven G. Schulman was charged in Los Angeles as part of a seven-year investigation into allegations that kickbacks were paid to
European business faces huge bills under plans to grant individuals US-style rights to sue for damages over defective products or price fixing, German industry warns on Tuesday. The BDI, the German employers’ association, and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, the law firm, will unveil a report arguing that the European Commission proposals would be costly and unnecessary.
Former Olympic track and field superstar Marion Jones pleaded guilty Friday to federal criminal charges that she lied to investigators about using steroids before her five-medal performance at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, and about her involvement in an unrelated New York-based counterfeit check scheme. The admission that she used steroids, made in U.S.
In August 1997, Mohamed Al Fayed phoned my late father, George Carman, QC, to arrange a joint meeting with Diana, Princess of Wales and his son Dodi. George’s advice was needed on privacy matters. The meeting never happened. On August 31 the Princess and Dodi were killed, together with driver Henri Paul, when their Mercedes
