When Joseph Connor was offered a job as a cook at a McDonald’s here, he finally seemed to have found a way to help support his five children. But along came a snag. The McDonald’s manager told Mr. Connor, who is 6-foot-1 and weighs nearly 420 pounds, that he could start work as soon as […]
On Aug. 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit stripped Neal Sher of his D.C. law license. The move comes roughly one year after Sher conceded he had made “unauthorized reimbursements” of travel expenses from the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, where he served as its chief of staff. He
The move, which coincides with the firm’s first partner retreat for two years, comes 14 months after its groundbreaking private placement in December 2002. It became the first UK law firm to access the capital markets. It eventually raised $150m (£81.7m) – up from the $100m (£63.7m) originally envisaged – using 10 and 20-year unsecured
W. John Brennan, 57, chief judge of state district court in Albuquerque, appeared to be “extremely intoxicated” when he was pulled over just after midnight, police spokesman Trish Ahrensfield said. Officers also found what they believed to be cocaine in his vehicle, she said. Ahrensfield said officers stopped Brennan after he tried to avoid a
The army of lawyers swarming around Royal Dutch/Shell Group, which touched off a collapse in its stock price after it admitted inflating proved reserves, has been joined by a new, veteran member. Securities lawyer William Lerach, famed for playing a lead role in many of the biggest shareholder class action suits of the past two
Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum & Morris plans to dissolve its current professional corporation to form a limited liability partnership, a structure commonly used by professionals such as accountants and lawyers to protect individual partner assets. In a suit filed Friday, Hirsch and three lawyers who joined him to set up a new practice alleged
Sullivan & Cromwell looks set to spark a US pay war after moving to pay a one-off ‘special bonus’ of up to $20,000 to all of its associates. The bonuses will be awarded on 21 October and sees the New York leader offer first-year associates a $10,000 one-off bonus, rising to $20,000 for senior associates.
The courtroom drama of shareholders vs. Disney’s battling Mikes — Michael Ovitz and Michael Eisner — has become a can’t-miss reality show for entertainment industry executives. Not that others aren’t also following the Delaware business court lawsuit over the Disney board’s handling of Ovitz’s hiring — and his $140 million severance package. “This is a
Eliot Spitzer may be ready to turn in his badge. After a string of stinging prosecutions that shook up Wall Street, the mutual fund business and the nation’s insurance industry, the New York Attorney General is ready to turn those investigations over to federal regulators, the New York Times reported Saturday. Spitzer told the newspaper
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News this week that Peter Cornell, global managing partner of the world’s largest law firm, Clifford Chance, is relocating from London to New York – the two main international legal centres – has shone the spotlight on whether British and American lawyers can merge successfully. They dominate the market. Four of the world’s 10 largest
