Law Firms

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State Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos said Grasso failed to ensure that the NYSE board understood the “magnitude” of his ballooning pay, particularly the more than $100 million in retirement benefits that he quietly accrued in his last few years on the job. The case was brought by New York Atty. Gen. Eliot Spitzer, who

The Rev. Anthony Mercieca, in a telephone interview with The Washington Post from the Maltese island of Gozo, said he was surprised that his long-ago interaction with Foley had become linked to the scandal that erupted last month and cost the former congressman his job . Foley, who served as an altar boy at the

The ruling requires Swiss Reinsurance Co., a Lloyds of London syndicate and seven other insurers to treat the Sept. 11 terror attack as a single total loss claim, and pay trade center leaseholder Larry Silverstein accordingly. St. Paul Travelers Cos., Allianz SE and seven other insurers will be required to pay Silverstein on a two-loss

U.S. District Judge Sim Lake granted the request by Lay’s estate to wipe out the convictions against the late Enron chairman, an outcome that was widely anticipated, given legal precedent. Lake also dismissed the indictment that was filed against him in 2004. In his ruling, Lake cited a decision in the 5th Circuit Court of

Signing the Bill, Mr Bush described it as a “vital tool” in the fight against terrorism, but civil liberty campaigners said that it would allow prisoners to be held indefinitely and sentenced to death on evidence beaten out of them. Officially the Military Commissions Act protects detainees from blatant abuses during questioning such as rape,

New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been claiming plenty of credit lately for championing his state’s teachers and forcing insurer ING to pay $30 million for foisting costly annuities on them under false pretenses. But the settlement is likely to do a lot more for Spitzer’s gubernatorial ambitions as he gears up for

Stewart, 67, was charged with aiding a U.S.-designated terror organization, the Islamic Group, wage a broad murder and kidnapping conspiracy. Federal prosecutors said she and two men convicted with her helped her former client, the blind sheik, Omar Abdel Rahman, transmit messages to the group’s leaders in defiance of prison restrictions. The government had asked

The bank was sued in January by 15 families including the victims of a bus bombing in Jerusalem on August 19, 2003 that killed 20 people — an attack for which Hamas claimed responsiblity. The families claimed that Natwest, now part of RBS, enabled Interpal, a charity that provides aid to poor and needy Palestinians,