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President Bush is signing up legal help as he girds for battle with the Democratic-led Congress. Faced with a flurry of document requests and expanding congressional investigations, the White House announced Friday that Bush had hired nine lawyers, including five who’ll fill new jobs in the president’s legal office. The recruits have solid experience in […]

A dozen prominent legal scholars submitted an amicus curiae brief on behalf of former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Thursday, arguing that Libby’s conviction could be overturned on appeal because the appointment of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald raises serious constitutional issues involving the separation of powers. The legal scholars, including Harvard law professor Alan

The judge who sentenced Paris Hilton to jail and the city’s top prosecutor objected Thursday to her early release for an unspecified medical condition after only three days behind bars. “The judicial process may have been improperly circumvented in this case,” said City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo. “This explanation is puzzling. Los Angeles County jail medical

The U.S. International Trade Commission ordered a ban on Thursday of some imported cell phone models containing Qualcomm Inc. chips that infringe on a Broadcom Corp. patent. The import ban covers new cell phone models that contain the infringing chips, but also exempts those imported for sale to the general public on or before the

Before joining the Bush Adminstration, Libby did stints at Dickstein Shapiro, the now-defunct Mudge Rose and Dechert; dozens of lawyers from those firms wrote letters on his behalf. A composite sketch would read: “It is incomprehensible to me that Scooter has been convicted of these crimes. He is honest, forthright, hardworking, ethical and a dedicated

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