As any attorney will tell you, disputes over the application and scope of the attorney-client privilege arise often in everyday lawsuits that are of interest only to the parties involved. But they also apparently arise in high-profile cases involving celebrity defendants. The case of Constand v. Cosby is a perfect example. In this case involving […]
Republicans were in disarray last night after a leading conservative newspaper called on Dennis Hastert, the Speaker, to resign, and an open rift developed between Mr Hastert and his top deputy, John Boehner, the majority leader in the House of Representatives. The developments were further evidence that the scandal over a possible cover-up of the
Along with the lay judge system, the Tokyo-based center, nicknamed “Hoterasu,” or Legal Terrace, is one of the keystones in the reform of the judicial system, which aims to give people ready access to legal help. The five main jobs of the center are: to offer legal information to individuals; to pay for or extend
The tardiness of a technical services company in submitting financial reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the trustee responsible for managing its debt payments have prompted a potentially expensive default. New York Supreme Court Justice Bernard J. Fried ruled in The Bank of New York v. BearingPoint, 600169/06, that by failing to file
When the court opened, the defence team for Saddam and his six co-defendants walked out in protest over Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s decision late on Tuesday to fire Chief Judge Abdullah al-Ameri, who some Shia and Kurdish politicians believed was showing leniency to the former President. When Muhammad Oreibi al-Khalifa, Mr Amiri’s replacement, ordered court-appointed
Last year, there were 14 UK firms in The Global 100. This year there are 16, with UK regionals Pinsent Masons and Addleshaw Goddard making the cut. And that 16 does not even include Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, Dechert, Jones Day, Reed Smith and Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, all of which cut major
A survey by recruitment firm Laurence Simons International found pay for Hong Kong is higher than the UK by as much as US$12,700 at the 2 years’ post qualification experience (PQE) level, and by as much as US$43,400 for individuals with more than 10 years’ PQE. AIG vice president and deputy general counsel Mario Valdes-Lora
Profits per partner hit a record £1,160,000 in one top City law firm, Slaughter and May, while the average profit across all 6,557 partners in the top 100 law firms reached £537,322. Top Five firms in terms of turnover were: Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Freshfields, Allen & Overy and Lovells. The year also saw the arrival
Andrew Nulty, 42, the highest-earning solicitor in Britain in 2005-06, has been ordered to appear before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. Mr Nulty, whose father and grandfather were miners, heads a list of Britain’s top-earning lawyers that was published yesterday by The Lawyer magazine. He is the senior partner of Avalon Solicitors, which has made multimillion-pound
The record partner profits come after Linklaters’ revenues jumped 16 per cent to £935 million in the 2005-06 financial year on the back of a continuing global boom in mergers and acquisitions and private equity-related work. Slaughter and May, the smallest of the five so-called Magic Circle law firms, is Linklaters’ closest rival with 90
