Law Firms

More than two years after Brobeck Phleger & Harrison LLP dissolved, ousted chairman Tower Snow has broken his silence over the firm’s spectacular demise. Some observers blamed Snow for Brobeck’s dissolution and bankruptcy in 2003. Among other things, critics said his 2002 defection — along with 16 other partners — to rival firm Clifford Chance […]

British authorities have signed a court order after months of delay to extradite three former NatWest bankers to the US. The extradition order, requested by the Enron task force, comes after intense criticism of the Extradition Act 2003, rushed through parliament two years ago in the hope of expediting terrorist cases. The home secretary now

America’s biggest investors expressed grave fears over the direction of US corporate governance yesterday after President Bush nominated a Republican congressman with a history of hostility towards the investment community as the new chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Christopher Cox, a Republican congressman on the right of his party who was a

Radical Arab militants have been trickling into Iraq to join the fight of Ba’athists and radical Islamists against US forces. But another, non-violent Arab contingent of volunteers has been gearing up for battle on a different front – the defence of Saddam Hussein. During the past year, the committee for the defence of Mr Hussein,

The most famous ketchup stain in London has claimed its first victim. Richard Phillips, the City lawyer whose suit was soiled by the misdirected tomato sauce, has resigned from his position, it was announced yesterday. Mr Phillips, 36, had decided to take a “long-planned” study break from work as the spillage continued to exercise the

The arrest Tuesday of Robert Johnson, the former Newsday publisher and a New York State regent, was one of hundreds so far growing out of a 2 1/2-year-old federal investigation that targets the financing of child pornography Web sites, according to sources familiar with the case. The New Jersey-based probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs

London insurers Hiscox Plc, Axa Art Insurance Ltd. and Ascot Underwriting Ltd. are filing lawsuits against art handler Momart, whose warehouse fire last year consumed art valued at as much as 40 million pounds ($72.4 million). Their allies in the case include artists such as Damien Hirst. The May 2004 fire in east London destroyed

This year four new firms made it onto the American Lawyer’s list of the best of the best in U.S. law firms. Two of those, Weil, Gotshal & Manges (No. 20) and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson (No. 17) made the first A-List in 2003 — but slid from the ranks last year. They

Law firms are outsourcing some of the work on their cases to other countries, joining a growing national trend of trying to cut costs by using a labor force paid at a lower rate than American workers. “Clients are entitled to get these things done in an efficient way,” said Jim Shea, managing partner of

Radical reforms to modernise the legal profession and make obtaining legal advice a lot easier were outlined by the Lord Chancellor yesterday. The Government published details of plans for England and Wales to allow outside companies to own law firms. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, QC, indicated that companies would be allowed to