Law Firms

Darren Sukonick had barely swallowed a small sip of bottled water when the perjury salvo slammed into him. “That testimony was not truthful, was it?” declared New York based lawyer Michael Schachter during a videotaped cross-examination yesterday. Mr. Sukonick, a corporate lawyer and partner at the blue-chip Toronto-based law firm Torys LLP, seemed momentarily stunned […]

A solicitor whose firm specialises in compensation claims for sick miners made a personal profit of £16.8 million in one year. Jim Beresford is the senior partner in Beresfords, a firm in Doncaster which registered more than 90,000 claims under the Government-run scheme. He is named today as Britain’s highest-earning solicitor. Tens of thousands of

Four Serb paramilitaries who were filmed killing Bosnian Muslims in 1995 have been convicted of war crimes. It was the first court ruling in Serbia related to the organised killings of around 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in the final months of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia. The video reveals members of a

I told you so.” With those words on the courthouse steps in the Bahamas, Larry Birkhead officially became the father of Anna Nicole Smith baby Dannielynn. Other issues of custody and guardianship were not discussed by the participants under a court gag order, although co-contestent father Larry Birkhead said he was very disappointed but accepted

US authorities are investigating gambling in the virtual reality world of Second Life. The FBI has reportedly examined casinos that operate in the game following a month-long crackdown on internet gambling. “We have invited the FBI several times to take a look around in Second Life and raise any concerns they would like, and we

California long has been the pacesetter in regulating car emissions, setting tougher limits than those imposed by the federal government. To avoid having cars built to meet 50 different sets of state rules, federal law allows other states to choose between the federal and the California rules. Vermont and nine other states follow California. But

The turmoil at the Justice Department deepened yesterday, with the sudden resignation of a top aide to Alberto Gonzales – making it more likely than ever that the embattled Attorney General will himself be forced out of his job by the end of this month. Monica Goodling, the Justice Department’s liaison to the White House,

A Greek prosecutor on Saturday pressed negligence charges against the captain and five officers of a cruise ship that sank off an Aegean Sea island, state NET TV reported. The six officers were charged with causing a shipwreck through negligence, breaching international shipping safety regulations and polluting the environment, NET said. All were released pending

European lawyers are examining whether alleged war crimes committed by Ethiopian and Somali troops in Mogadishu last week could expose the EU to accusations of complicity because of its formidable financial assistance to the two countries. A massive Ethiopian-led offensive to pacify an insurgency in the Somali capital left nearly 400 people dead between March