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Partners at even the most profitable Wall Street firms might be a little green with envy at the news from Down Under. A handful of lawyers at Australia’s 140-lawyer Slater & Gordon are due to share in a financial windfall in the world’s first initial public offering by a law firm. On listing, seven principals […]

While presiding over perhaps the most high-profile trial of his career, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton made time for his more mundane courthouse role: the scolding mentor to this city’s young thugs. So, the vice president’s former top deputy, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, his team of well-heeled and famous defense lawyers and a nationally

Former Bush administration official, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail today for perjury and obstruction of justice in relation to events leading to the Iraq war. Libby, 54, was chief of staff and national security adviser to the vice-president, Dick Cheney, one of the leading advocates of the invasion. He is

Army Col. Peter Brownback, the judge, said the military tribunal lacked jurisdiction over Canadian Omar Khadr because he did not meet the strict definition of those subject to trial under a law the U.S. Congress drafted last year. “It’s not a technicality. It’s another demonstration that the system simply doesn’t work,” said the tribunals’ chief

The testimony of more than two dozen witnesses and reams of documents shown to jurors at Conrad Black’s fraud trial has not produced the telling piece of evidence that resoundingly implicates the one-time media mogul, attorneys observing the 11-week trial said. But the prosecution, which wrapped up its case last week, constructed a solid argument

Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist dubbed “Dr. Death” after claiming he had participated in at least 130 assisted suicides, left prison after eight years Friday still believing people have the right to die. Throughout the 1990s, Kevorkian challenged authorities to make his actions legal — or try to stop him. He burned state orders against

Lorene F. Schaefer says she moved steadily up General Electric’s in-house legal ladder for 13 years, getting praise and stock grants each step along the way. She made it as far as general counsel for GE Transportation. But this year, she said in an interview, “I bumped up against an absolute glass ceiling into the

Proposed new anti-terror laws could give police greater powers to stop and question anyone in the UK. The proposal, allowing police to ask people about their identity and movement, is among measures being considered by Home Secretary John Reid. The new legislation would be similar to that already used in Northern Ireland. Police are still

Eliot Disner is out of a job, less than a week after court filings made public his objections to the $49 million settlement negotiated by his firm, McGuireWoods, in an antitrust class action against the parent company of BAR/BRI, the nation’s largest provider of bar review courses. Disner, who was a partner in the Los