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Many criminal cases depend upon the state of mind of the defendant and if there’s a serious mind-problem the law generally doesn’t care. But should judges and juries really be in the business of defining the normal or properly working brain? The NY Times Magazine looks at how advances in neuroscience could transform our legal system.

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When historians of the future try to identify the moment that neuroscience began to transform the American legal system, they may point to a little-noticed case from the early 1990s. The case involved Herbert Weinstein, a 65-year-old ad executive who was charged with strangling his wife, Barbara, to death and then, in an effort to […]

Many criminal cases depend upon the state of mind of the defendant and if there’s a serious mind-problem the law generally doesn’t care. But should judges and juries really be in the business of defining the normal or properly working brain? The NY Times Magazine looks at how advances in neuroscience could transform our legal system. Read More »

Among the signs that Silicon Valley has its money-making mojo back are, quite literally, the signs. Out-of-town law firms are again hanging their shingles in Palo Alto and Menlo Park.

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Among the signs that Silicon Valley has its money-making mojo back are, quite literally, the signs. Out-of-town law firms are again hanging their shingles in Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Nixon Peabody, a venerable East Coast firm with roots in Boston and Rochester, N.Y., is the latest arrival. “Everybody wants to be where the action

Among the signs that Silicon Valley has its money-making mojo back are, quite literally, the signs. Out-of-town law firms are again hanging their shingles in Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Read More »

Sex allegations and New Zealand policemen just don’t seem to go away, as the New Zealand Herald reports on new allegations against an Assistant Police Commissioner who has just been discharged on rape allegations.

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The inquiry team set up to investigate alleged police misconduct is looking into a new sex allegation against suspended Assistant Police Commissioner Clint Rickards. Operation Austin head Steve Vaughan confirmed last night it was investigating another allegation of a historical sexual nature against Rickards and while nothing had been substantiated, the matter was being treated

Sex allegations and New Zealand policemen just don’t seem to go away, as the New Zealand Herald reports on new allegations against an Assistant Police Commissioner who has just been discharged on rape allegations. Read More »

A Microsoft lawyer this week accused Google of “systematically violating copyright” with its plans to scan millions of books and journals from libraries around the world and make them available online. But Google argues its plans are legal.

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A Microsoft lawyer this week accused Google of “systematically violating copyright” with its plans to scan millions of books and journals from libraries around the world and make them available online. But Google argues its plans are legal. Google is not the only company scanning books and putting them on the internet. In a large

A Microsoft lawyer this week accused Google of “systematically violating copyright” with its plans to scan millions of books and journals from libraries around the world and make them available online. But Google argues its plans are legal. Read More »

The number of QC applicants – for the creme-de-la-creme role in British law – has dropped by a quarter compared to last year, according to figures published by the QC Appointments committee in Britain. How come?

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The number of QC applicants has dropped by a quarter compared to last year, according to figures published by the QC Appointments committee in Britain. A total of 333 barristers applied, compared to 443 in 2006. The fall in applications, however, had been expected by the Bar following last year’s massive 175 lawyers becoming silks.

The number of QC applicants – for the creme-de-la-creme role in British law – has dropped by a quarter compared to last year, according to figures published by the QC Appointments committee in Britain. How come? Read More »

Former SEC chairman turned hedge fund manager Richard Breeden is making headlines in the U.S. and Canada simultaneously. Negotiations with his activist hedge fund Breeden Capital have broken down after Breeden rejected the company’s offer of two board seats and he’s making headlines in Canada for his role in the case of Conrad Black, whose criminal fraud trial is expected to begin next week in Chicago. “The court-appointed “corporate monitor” at the collapsed WorldCom and an “adviser” to the special committee of Hollinger International, is on course to become the first corporate governance billionaire,” writes conservative Canadian columnist Mark Steyn in Macleans.

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A few years ago I used to know a fellow who produced all-star charity galas in New York and London for all the usual causes — AIDS, breast cancer, poverty in Africa, and so forth. All very worthy, I’m sure. Yet I used to feel a little queasy in his company: this man spent his

Former SEC chairman turned hedge fund manager Richard Breeden is making headlines in the U.S. and Canada simultaneously. Negotiations with his activist hedge fund Breeden Capital have broken down after Breeden rejected the company’s offer of two board seats and he’s making headlines in Canada for his role in the case of Conrad Black, whose criminal fraud trial is expected to begin next week in Chicago. “The court-appointed “corporate monitor” at the collapsed WorldCom and an “adviser” to the special committee of Hollinger International, is on course to become the first corporate governance billionaire,” writes conservative Canadian columnist Mark Steyn in Macleans. Read More »

By the end of last week, some of the most conservative Republican senators were publicly assailing the US Department of Justice’s handling of the matters relating to the termination of US Attorney positions. Some even suggested that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales might have to step down. And in an about-face, Gonzales said on March 8 that he would support a change in the law that would limit the attorney general’s ability to appoint interim U.S. Attorneys.

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When William Moschella sat down before a House subcommittee last week to discuss the firings of seven U.S. Attorneys in December, he was in full apology mode. “In hindsight,” said Moschella, a senior Justice Department official, “perhaps this situation could have been handled better.” What could be called the understatement of the week did little

By the end of last week, some of the most conservative Republican senators were publicly assailing the US Department of Justice’s handling of the matters relating to the termination of US Attorney positions. Some even suggested that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales might have to step down. And in an about-face, Gonzales said on March 8 that he would support a change in the law that would limit the attorney general’s ability to appoint interim U.S. Attorneys. Read More »

Question: What are the chances of a presidential pardon for Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby? For all the unlicensed talk about a presidential pardon for Lewis “Scooter” Libby, President Bush is the one licensed player who hasn’t had much to say about the subject.

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For all the unlicensed talk about a presidential pardon for Lewis “Scooter” Libby, President Bush is the one licensed player who hasn’t had much to say about the subject. Until now. And this is one ambiguous answer. While Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney convicted of lying in a federal

Question: What are the chances of a presidential pardon for Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby? For all the unlicensed talk about a presidential pardon for Lewis “Scooter” Libby, President Bush is the one licensed player who hasn’t had much to say about the subject. Read More »

Slaughter and May has been unique among the UK elite in shunning the global one-stop shop model of international expansion and in refusing to tinker with a partnership structure that has been in place since 1889. But when its financial year closes at the end of March, the firm will have set a record for profitability in the UK legal market. Already the only European firm among the world’s ten most profitable law firms, Slaughter and May’s top partners are set to pocket £2.5 million each.

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When its financial year closes at the end of March, Slaughter and May will have set a record for profitability in the UK legal market. Already the only European firm among the world’s ten most profitable law firms, Slaughter and May’s top partners are set to pocket £2.5 million each this year, a jump of

Slaughter and May has been unique among the UK elite in shunning the global one-stop shop model of international expansion and in refusing to tinker with a partnership structure that has been in place since 1889. But when its financial year closes at the end of March, the firm will have set a record for profitability in the UK legal market. Already the only European firm among the world’s ten most profitable law firms, Slaughter and May’s top partners are set to pocket £2.5 million each. Read More »

I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted on Tuesday of lying to a grand jury and to F.B.I. agents investigating the leak of the identity of a C.I.A. operative in the summer of 2003 amid a fierce public dispute over the war in Iraq.

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I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted on Tuesday of lying to a grand jury and to F.B.I. agents investigating the leak of the identity of a C.I.A. operative in the summer of 2003 amid a fierce public dispute over the war in Iraq. Mr. Libby,

I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted on Tuesday of lying to a grand jury and to F.B.I. agents investigating the leak of the identity of a C.I.A. operative in the summer of 2003 amid a fierce public dispute over the war in Iraq. Read More »

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