Doctor Mohamed Haneef, who returned home to India today after a terrorism-related charge against him was dropped, says he was “victimised” by the Australian authorities. Dr Haneef spent more than three weeks in detention in Australia on one count of “reckless” support for a terrorist group, but the charge was dropped on Friday and he […]
A surgeon general’s report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration’s policy accomplishments, according to current and former public health
Conrad Black, the former Hollinger International Inc. chairman convicted this month of fraud and obstruction of justice, hired one of Wall Street banker Frank Quattrone’s lawyers to represent him on appeal. Andrew Frey, 68, a partner in the New York office of Chicago-based Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, will lead the efforts to overturn Black’s
A group of the UK’s most influential barristers has severely criticised the Labour Government’s treatment of the UK legal system over the past ten years. Writing in industry publication New Law Journal, leading legal figures including Michael Mansfield, QC, attack the Government over a series of issues including the independence of the judiciary, intervention in
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III yesterday appeared to contradict the sworn testimony of his boss, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, by telling Congress that a prominent warrantless surveillance program was the subject of a dramatic legal debate within the Bush administration. Mueller’s testimony appears to mark the first public confirmation from a Bush administration
The House Judiciary Committee voted today to seek contempt of Congress citations against a top aide to President Bush and a former presidential aide over their refusal to cooperate in an inquiry about the firing of federal prosecutors. The 22-to-17 vote along party lines escalates the battle between the administration and Congressional Democrats over the
The American Lawyer’s fifth annual ranking of the nation’s elite — the law firms that are best at balancing a thriving business with their obligations to the profession – shows Debevoise & Plimpton at number 1. The next 9: 2 – Weil Gotshal3 – Munger Tolles4 – Latham & Watkins5 – Patterson Belknap6 – Paul
Despite the guilty verdicts reached last week in the trial of media tycoon Conrad Black, there’s still plenty of litigation to come for attorneys involved in cases related to alleged fraud at the former newspaper company Hollinger International. Hollinger, which has been renamed Sun-Times Media Group Inc., and former directors and executives of the company,
Up until last month, there didn’t seem to be a TV camera that attorney Debra Opri wouldn’t embrace. The brash, self-professed blue-collar gal from New Jersey had secured a costarring role in the Anna Nicole Smith media circus as the attorney waging war to prove that Larry Birkhead was in fact the father of the
London’s big four have secured their place among the emerging global elite after what will be seen as a breakthrough year for the UK’s leading law firms. Legal Week’s 2006-07 results, the first finalised picture of the performance of the UK’s top 50 law firms, shows the group achieving its second year of double-digit revenue
