In the course of a decade, Greenberg Traurig has had the kind of growth usually reserved for businesses that sell oil or iPods. Revenues are up by more than 880 percent from 1996, and in 2006 they topped the billion-dollar mark. Profits per partner have soared from $480,000 to $1.2 million. The firm has opened […]
Britain’s highest-paid woman is embroiled in a bitter legal battle with two former workers that threatens to lay bare the secretive world of hedge funds. Ikos, the £1 billion company owned by Elena Ambrosiadou, is being sued for £26 million by Julian and Lucien Gover, 41-year-old twins who once held senior positions in it. They
The arrest of a prominent attorney on charges of destroying evidence in a child pornography investigation is raising alarm bells that a law targeting corporate accounting schemes could be used to prosecute lawyers over work done on their clients’ behalf. “Every criminal defense lawyer in the country has to be alarmed at the indictment,” said
The Duke of Edinburgh could soon be forced to appoint lawyers to defend himself against allegations that he ‘masterminded’ the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. A High Court ruling on Friday that the inquest into the deaths of Diana and her lover, Dodi Fayed, should be heard by a jury has made the prospect
The jury deliberating the perjury and obstruction of justice case against I. Lewis Libby Jr. recessed for the weekend on Friday without reaching a verdict, but not before leaving an intriguing clue as to the state of deliberations. The jurors sent a note with a question to Judge Reggie B. Walton, who is expected to
The Pentagon filed a war crimes charge against Australian David Hicks on Thursday, making the former kangaroo skinner the first target of new military commissions designed by the White House and endorsed by Congress to try terrorism suspects imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. The indictment charges Hicks with a single count of providing material support for
The European Commission on Thursday threatened Microsoft with millions of euros in new fines in a long-running antitrust dispute, saying the company was demanding “unreasonable” royalties from rivals seeking to link their software to the Windows operating system. The commission issued a “statement of objections,” asking Microsoft to respond to a complaint that it was
U.S. officials charged an ex-partner of law firm McGuireWoods LLP with fraud on Wednesday, alleging he illegally obtained and sold shares of various companies for a profit of millions of dollars. Louis Zehil, a 41-year-old Florida resident, was arrested, and a federal magistrate later set bail at $250,000. Zehil could face a maximum sentence of
A year and a half ago, on a Tuesday night in October, an ambitious young lawyer named Aaron Charney was working late on the 28th floor of 125 Broad Street—the pin-striped skyscraper near the southern tip of Manhattan that houses the world headquarters of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. Eric Krautheimer, a partner
A lawyer pleaded guilty to stealing more than $20 million from a bank and at least one client, spending the loot on vacation homes, a wedding and generous salaries for his employees, authorities said. Under a deal with prosecutors, Anthony Bellettieri, 53, faces more than a decade in prison after admitting Thursday in federal court
