Law Firms

For a man who gives millions to charity, Melvyn Weiss is hated by a lot of people. Once he was the most feared man in corporate America, making a fortune by chasing companies accused of ripping off investors and winning billions in settlement. Now it’s Weiss’s turn in the dock. After years of digging, American […]

Saying older surveillance laws were “dangerously out of date,” President Bush pressed anew Wednesday for Congress to pass permanent legislation that allows intelligence agencies to carry out warrantless surveillance on all communications of a foreign terror suspect. USA Today report that legislation passed by Congress last month “has helped close a critical intelligence gap, allowing

Once a class-action legal juggernaut, the law firm now known as Milberg Weiss suffered more body blows today as federal prosecutors indicted its co-founder Melvyn I. Weiss and secured a plea deal with yet another former partner. In a new, superseding indictment, prosecutors in Los Angeles charged Mr. Weiss, one of the architects of class-action

Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather has filed a $70m (£35m) lawsuit against his former employers at the US TV network. He quit as a presenter in 2005 over a controversial report that cast doubt on President George W Bush’s military service during the Vietnam war. He says CBS made him a scapegoat for the

A police incident report obtained late Tuesday paints O.J. Simpson as the brutal ringleader of a group of men with guns who busted into a Vegas hotel room on Thursday but who, in subsequent days, told police he is baffled by the notion that what took place was an armed robbery. Mr. Simpson told police

It took seven years, but Los Angeles federal prosecutors are finally on the verge of putting famed plaintiffs lawyer William Lerach in federal prison. Several people briefed on the case said Monday that Lerach and the prosecutors had agreed on a binding deal in which Lerach’s lawyers would ask for a sentence of 12 months

On the western edge of New Delhi, amid the glittering office developments of the suburb of Gurgaon, the newest part of Clifford Chance’s global empire is open for business. Unlike the firm’s other offices, however, this outpost is not practicing law, still a prohibited activity in India for overseas law firms. Instead, the Clifford Chance

Jurors in the murder trial of Phil Spector last night told the judge that they had reached an impasse in their deliberations, raising the prospect of a mistrial being called as soon as today. A mistrial would essentially leave the wildly eccentric music producer a free man. At a hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court,

The securities lawyer William S. Lerach agreed to plead guilty today to a criminal conspiracy charge in connection with a class-action scheme involving his former firm, now known as Milberg Weiss, the United States attorney’s office in Los Angeles said. Mr. Lerach, 61, who has long been under investigation by federal authorities, will enter his