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But just as education and the NHS need reform, so too does legal aid. Legal aid spending is rising to unaffordable levels, and the balance of expenditure is wrong. We need to redirect and rebalance the system. Governments of different political stripes have been wrestling with this problem for years. Our job is to provide […]

The lobbyist feared information in the document could be damaging to his clients’ interests, the inspector general said, and he used his knowledge of its contents to warn them and to devise a counterattack. ‘Abramoff’s e-mail records indicate that by late June 2002 he had obtained a copy of the report from an official of

“We started coming to Israel during the Intifada when no one else was coming here,” Bob Grossman, principle shareholder and co-chair of the Israeli Practice Group at Greenberg Traurig told The Jerusalem Post. “Because there is so much technology and promise here, we felt it was a good time to come both from a business

The filing made to the federal court where the two men were convicted last month asks Judge Sim Lake to grant the forfeiture request that would match the “gross amount of the proceeds of the crimes of conviction.” Lay, 64, was convicted of six counts of conspiracy and fraud, as well as four separate personal

The figure would be a rise of at least nine per cent on last year’s fee income of £914m. Meanwhile, partners at the top of the lockstep are expected to earn at least £850,000, up 20 per cent on last year when top of equity was £710,000. The results will be a vindication for the

Lay, on trial for fraud and conspiracy along with former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, has said most of the stock sales were made to pay off his millions of dollars in debts. Under cross examination by prosecutor John Hueston, Lay admitted he and wife, Linda, lived the good life and had trouble giving it up,

A continued feeling that some firms have yet to come out of the plateau that they are parked on marks another year of measured growth for Australasia’s leading firms. “If you take a snapshot of us year to year, then there is a little bit of change in numbers. But, from the headcount view there