Law Firms

The fate of Dow Jones & Co. and its flagship newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, lies in the hands of a patrician New England family that has shunned hands-on management and has instead entrusted much of its legacy to powerful but discreet Boston lawyers. The Bancrofts, heirs to the controlling stock of Dow Jones, have […]

Lied to the High Court about how he met his former lover, Jeff Chevalier, whom he said he had met while “exercising in Battersea Park”; — Used BP resources and staff to set up a company for his boyfriend; — Attempted to “trash” the reputation of Mr Chevalier in court by claiming that he was

Dow Jones & Co Inc.could face a flood of shareholder lawsuits if it rejects a buyout bid from Rupert Murdoch and its shares tumble, legal and governance experts said on Wednesday. Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, has said it is evaluating the $5 billion takeover bid from Murdoch’s News Corp. a proposal

Celebrity magazine OK! has won its marathon court battle with rival Hello! over the wedding pictures of Hollywood stars Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas. The House of Lords, Britain’s highest court, ruled that Hello! had breached OK!’s confidentiality when it published unauthorised photographs of the ceremony at New York’s Plaza Hotel in November 2000.

Britain’s press has shot down some big game over the years. The resignation of the boss of BP, an oil firm and the country’s biggest company, might be expected to take pride of place in the trophy cabinet. But the decision by John Browne to leave his job, on Tuesday May 1st, with immediate effect

A lawsuit filed against Google by Viacom, the New York entertainment giant, threatens the way hundreds of millions of people exchange information on the Internet, Google asserted in legal documents filed Monday evening. Viacom, which owns MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, sued Google in March in U.S. District Court in New York for copyright

Ask university officials in the US why their hands are so often tied when they see a student beginning to spiral into disruptive madness and some will cite federal laws that prohibit discrimination against the mentally ill. Others will mention procedural obstacles that can make it hard to expel a youngster over anything short of

Consumer privacy groups on Friday sought to derail Google Inc.’s $3.1 billion deal to buy online ad supplier DoubleClick Inc., filing a complaint with U.S. regulators to block the merger on privacy grounds. Groups led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center have filed the complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission arguing the merger would

The Crown Prosecution Service will be considering whether to charge anyone over the ‘cash for honours’ scandal after detectives completed their probe. The Metropolitan Police said a 216-page document was given to prosecutors with supporting material. The scandal involves claims that peerage nominations were exchanged for sizeable contributions to leading political parties. Scotland Yard’s findings