Law Firms

Tony Blair backed down last night in the face of a full-scale cabinet revolt over an exemption for the Roman Catholic Church over gay adoption rights. The Prime Minister proposed allowing the church a lengthy delay before it has to accept applications from gay couples for adoption, but there would be no legal exemption from

It was the last thing the White House needed at a time when President Bush is already on the defensive over Iraq: a circular firing squad in a federal courtroom in which the president’s men—and Vice President Dick Cheney’s—are all shooting at each other. But that’s how the perjury trial of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby,

Israel’s attorney general said yesterday he plans to charge President Moshe Katsav with rape, abuse of power and other sexual offences, turning a seven-month investigation into one of several scandals to hit the government. Mr Katsav, who as president has largely ceremonial powers, will have the chance to make his case in one final hearing

Shares in online gaming firms tumbled on Monday following news of a fresh probe into online gambling in the United States. The U.S. Department of Justice has demanded information from some of the world’s biggest investment banks as part of the probe, banking sources said. Internet gaming was effectively banned last year after U.S. President

Christopher J. Steskal, a lead prosecutor of a federal task force investigating the backdating of stock options at Apple Inc. and other companies, is leaving his San Francisco post to join a law firm, the United State Attorney’s office in San Francisco confirmed late Friday. Mr. Steskal’s decision follows the recent resignation of his boss,

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was hammered by lawmakers on Thursday who demanded to know why the administration took more than five years to obtain court approval of its war-time domestic spying initiative. “I somewhat take issue … with (Republican) Senator Arlen Specter’s innuendo that this is something we could have pulled off the shelf

Late last week the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Justice had requested the resignation of Lam, who won the guilty plea in 2005 of former Republican Congressman “Duke” Cunningham. Lam’s office declined to comment on the news. There’s also Kevin Ryan, whose San Francisco office is investigating numerous stock-options backdating matters. Others include Daniel Bogden

Defense Department official Charles Stimson showed ignorance and malice in deploring the pro bono representation of Guantanamo detainees by lawyers in some of the nation’s leading law firms, and in calling on their corporate clients to punish them for this work. That some of the law firms Mr. Stimson singles out represent large employers defending