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Conrad Black’s fraud trial enters some of its most crucial days this week as defence lawyers attempt to convince jurors that star prosecution witness David Radler was the only one responsible for diverting millions of dollars away from the company’s shareholders. “There has to be a knock-out punch with Radler very quickly on Monday,” said […]

U.S. congressional investigators this week asked BP Plc to explain why it plans to delete a key finding from a consultant’s report that detailed “budget pressure” as a contributor to the biggest oil spill on the Alaska North Slope last year. BP wants to remove a finding in a March 2007 report by consultants Booz

A billionaire trader who is one of the world’s most prolific gamblers has won a £60m High Court battle with the Iranian military over a missing aeroplane, Times Online has learnt. Fouad al-Zayat – known in casinos across the world as the “Fat Man” – was accused by the Iranians of taking payment for a

The manufacturer of the potent painkiller OxyContin and three current and former executives at the company yesterday pleaded guilty to falsely marketing the drug in a way that played down its addictive properties and led to scores of people becoming addicted, prosecutors said. The Purdue Frederick Co. and its chief executive, top lawyer, and former

Federal authorities have described the case as one of the most pervasive Wall Street insider trading rings since Ivan Boesky and Dennis Levine engaged in notorious schemes in the 1980s. The $15 million scam reached into some of the nation’s top financial firms, relying on insiders at Morgan Stanley and Co. and UBS Securities LLC

Armed police violently broke up a demonstration of lawyers today, subjecting them to punishment beatings as passing motorists stopped and watched in horror. One group was corralled on to a truck and taken to open grassland in a suburb of Harare, where they were assaulted as they lay on the ground. The victims included Beatrice

The good news is that lateral partners are happier at their new firms than they were 10 years ago. The bad news is that their expectations about a firm’s ability to expand and support their practices are still not being met — a leading factor in why many chose to jump ship in the first

Like David Rockefeller in the United States and a succession of Rothschilds in Europe, David K.P. Li has long received the accolades that come to aristocratic bankers who combine wealth, political influence and public service. Li is a cabinet official here, a senior member of the legislature and the chairman and chief executive of the

In the wake of the tainted pet-food scandal, some pet owners, aided by trial lawyers and advocacy groups, are trying to achieve human-like status for their animals in our civil courts. If they succeed, it may become much more costly — and risky — to own a pet in America. Many of America’s estimated 65