Law Firms

The few spectators who have found their way to the 12th floor courtroom in Chicago where Conrad Black’s fraud trial is underway have witnessed a startling sight in recent days: a lawyer from a heavyweight Canadian legal firm accused of lying. Darren Sukonick, a 37-year-old partner at Torys LLP who testified that he billed Hollinger […]

Paul Wolfowitz’s future as World Bank president hung in the balance yesterday after the bank’s board issued a damaging finding on his role in the Riza affair and promised to reach a decision on what steps to take next “expeditiously”. The promise of further action kept up pressure on Mr Wolfowitz to step down of

Despite an apology from the prosecutor who pursued rape charges against their clients, the lawyers for three exonerated former Duke lacrosse players were weighing a lawsuit against him, and legal experts said their case could have merit. Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong’s issued a carefully worded apology to the players on Thursday, but it

EMI Group Plc, the world’s third- largest music label, settled a royalties dispute with the Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd., in an agreement analysts said may lead to the band’s catalogue becoming available online. “We settled last month on mutually acceptable terms,” Amanda Conroy, a spokeswoman for London-based EMI, said today in an interview. A spokeswoman

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