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From Apple to Netscape to HP to YouTube, Larry Sonsini has been the most important lawyer in the most important industry for 30 years. But is he too close to the companies he represents? A report from “Fortune”.

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“I first remember hearing Larry Sonsini’s name probably in 1986 or 1987,” says Dave Roux, who co-founded Silver Lake Partners, a private-equity firm in Menlo Park Calif., focusing on technology investments. Back then, when Roux lived on the East Coast, he was at a meeting of the board of Lotus Development in Boston, when someone […]

From Apple to Netscape to HP to YouTube, Larry Sonsini has been the most important lawyer in the most important industry for 30 years. But is he too close to the companies he represents? A report from “Fortune”. Read More »

Sentencing in the Enron fraud cases continued Friday, with terms of 18 months and three years, one month meted out to two former Enron officials who cooperated with the government’s investigation.

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Enron Corp. former executives Michael Kopper and Mark Koenig were sentenced to far shorter prison terms than they agreed to in pleading guilty, as a judge rewarded their cooperation in prosecuting their bosses for fraud. U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein sentenced Kopper, 41, a former finance officer, to three years and one month today in

Sentencing in the Enron fraud cases continued Friday, with terms of 18 months and three years, one month meted out to two former Enron officials who cooperated with the government’s investigation. Read More »

The U.S. Defense Department is looking for contractors to build a new facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where it can hold large-scale military trials for terrorism suspects held there.

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The U.S. Navy has issued the call for bids on a contract for work estimated to cost between $75-$125 million. The new courtrooms could host dozens of trials, and Pentagon Spokesman Bryan Whitman says the existing facilities cannot handle them. “The single courtroom that is down there is basically designed for handling a single-defendant trial,”

The U.S. Defense Department is looking for contractors to build a new facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where it can hold large-scale military trials for terrorism suspects held there. Read More »

It was a decision that came as a surprise to the elite group of multimillionaire business people who leave UK for Monaco to avoid tax. The goal posts just moved.

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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

It was a decision that came as a surprise to the elite group of multimillionaire business people who leave UK for Monaco to avoid tax. The goal posts just moved. Read More »

Tim Wu is not merely a tenured law professor at Columbia University.He’s been a Supreme Court clerk and writes for newspapers and magazines. He’s written a defining book on the vexed issue of ‘Who Owns The Internet’ and he puts out a YouTube Law Review with comely law students dressed in black hot pants. He’s a new legal superstar.

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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.

Tim Wu is not merely a tenured law professor at Columbia University.He’s been a Supreme Court clerk and writes for newspapers and magazines. He’s written a defining book on the vexed issue of ‘Who Owns The Internet’ and he puts out a YouTube Law Review with comely law students dressed in black hot pants. He’s a new legal superstar. Read More »

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.”

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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

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.” Read More »

“Private Equity” has become a password for massive profits and no law firm other than Simpson Thacher has two of the biggest PE players in their client list. Deal, after multi-billion dollar deal . .

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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

“Private Equity” has become a password for massive profits and no law firm other than Simpson Thacher has two of the biggest PE players in their client list. Deal, after multi-billion dollar deal . . Read More »

Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn pleaded not guilty Wednesday to four felony identity theft and fraud charges for allegedly instigating the company’s ill-fated spying probe into boardroom leaks.

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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

Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn pleaded not guilty Wednesday to four felony identity theft and fraud charges for allegedly instigating the company’s ill-fated spying probe into boardroom leaks. Read More »

Seventy-six laborers and relatives came to Japan from China in early November to pursue lawsuits against the Japanese government and companies, which refuse even to pay them their unpaid wartime wages, much less offer compensation.

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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

Seventy-six laborers and relatives came to Japan from China in early November to pursue lawsuits against the Japanese government and companies, which refuse even to pay them their unpaid wartime wages, much less offer compensation. Read More »

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.

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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

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. Read More »

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