A British Judge has strongly criticized the action of a law firm that represented some of the July 21 London bombers for their ‘smokescreen’ tactics. Mr Justice Fulford QC said Arani & Co, who represented Muktar Said Ibrahim and Yassin Omar, had made a series of “wholly unjustified” complaints to Belmarsh Prison. The attack comes […]
A former Beverly Hills ophthalmologist whose decision to cooperate with prosecutors helped launch a federal investigation of class-action law firm Milberg Weiss pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Steven Cooperman’s plea in federal court in Los Angeles came a day after David Bershad, a former partner at Milberg who was responsible for
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Wednesday unveiled an industry-backed climate change bill that could mean mandatory limits on U.S. carbon dioxide emissions starting in 2012. Labor unions representing coal miners, auto workers, and the heads of seven big U.S. electric utilities endorsed the Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007, along with the AFL-CIO,
The Chicago jury hearing Conrad Black’s racketeering trial today revealed that it was deadlocked on “one or more” of the 16 criminal counts facing the fallen media mogul and his three co-defendants. In spite of pleas from Lord Black’s lawyers to accept a partial verdict, judge Amy St Eve ordered the nine men and three
The jury in the Conrad Black trial finished its sixth day of deliberations Thursday without reaching a verdict, but even when it does, its job might not be finished if it convicts Black or any of his three former associates of fraud. The panel of nine men and three women also might decide whether Black
The influence of religious faith on the American political process cannot be underestimated. According to a Newsweek poll conducted in March, 73 per cent of Evangelical Protestants said that they believed that God created men and women in their present form within the past 10,000 years. In recent debates, four of the ten Republican candidates
The FBI is investigating letters sent to newspapers nationwide that say “Goldman Sachs. Hundreds will die. We are inside. You cannot stop us,” the bureau said Friday, but government and company officials are downplaying the threat. U.S. Postal Inspection Service said the letters were sent to 20 small to mid-size newspapers, including publications in Indiana,
London law firms are reaping record profits that confirm London’s dominance of the global legal market, according to research published today. Partners are regularly earning in excess of £1 million a year with profits per partner up by 12 per cent, the data from Legal Business magazine shows. The survey of the world’s largest law
Media baron Conrad Black’s fate is hanging in the balance, as the jury consider whether he is guilty of fraud and what the US authorities call “racketeering”. Conrad Black could go to jail for the rest of his life But while the former chief executive of the Hollinger press empire waits to hear whether he
LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – BAGHDAD — The New York Times has reported that the Iraqi Cabinet is closer to completing work on an oil law that the U.S. Congress has demanded progress on before it authorizes additional money for the war. The Cabinet approved one part of the legislative package, known officially as
