Monaco Millionaires — the elite group of business people who reside outside the UK to slash their tax bill — face a crackdown by Revenue & Customs on the number of days they can spend in Britain, after a surprise legal decision. Accountants yesterday accused HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) of introducing a stealth tax […]
Last week, a group of five women law students from Columbia University took seats on a small makeshift stage, dressed in identical skimpy black hot pants and white tank tops, mimicking law students in classes taught by their 34-year-old professor, Tim Wu. A voice-over pretended to broadcast the contents of the female students’ wandering minds.
Is O. J. Simpson confessing? That’s what powerhouse publisher Judith Regan teasingly promises from a new book and television extravaganza called “If I Did It.” In them, Simpson describes how he would have murdered his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and waiter Ronald Goldman—if he’d actually done it. Regan herself is coy about whether Simpson goes
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett just had the kind of summer that private equity lawyers dream about. The New York firm’s two top private equity clients, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and The Blackstone Group, were on a dealmaking binge, and Simpson was at the center of the action. The deal that caught everyone’s attention was
Former Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Chairman Patricia Dunn on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to felony charges for spying on reporters and directors in a scandal that sullied the reputation of one of Silicon Valley’s most venerable and respected companies. Dunn’s appearance at the San Jose, California, courthouse was the latest development in the
Graying but walking with ramrod-straight backs, Chinese men in their 70s and 80s quietly toured a coal-mining museum here recently. But in a moment of recognition reaching back to their youth, the sight of a shovel, a rake and a vise made them call out the Japanese names for the antiquated tools. The words were
Emboldened by his resignation last week, lawyers on Tuesday asked a German prosecutor to investigate Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on allegations of war crimes, stemming from the treatment of prisoners held in military jails in Iraq and Cuba. The 220-page lawsuit, filed with the German federal prosecutor in Karlsruhe, names 11 other current and
Apple Computer Inc., facing 10 lawsuits over stock option backdating, named IBM Corp. executive Donald Rosenberg as its general counsel. Rosenberg, 55, held the same position at IBM, Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple said Monday. He replaces general counsel Nancy Heinen, who resigned in May after working 12 years with Chief Executive Steve Jobs. During his 30
After months of speculation, Philadelphia-based Drinker Biddle & Reath and Chicago-based Gardner Carton & Douglas have confirmed to The Legal Intelligencer that the two firms will merge. The firms began merger discussions in March, according to Drinker Biddle Chairman Alfred W. Putnam Jr., and have held several meetings since then. The Gardner Carton partnership voted
“Pirates of the Caribbean.” “The Matrix.” “The Last Samurai.” “Broken Flowers.” “Amistad.” Success isn’t all these films have in common. Each was also challenged by a lawsuit claiming “idea theft” _ a common Hollywood problem that lawyers say is likely to continue as long as huge movie studios wield enormous power. “It’s like having your
