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Her first-class hotel suite had to have windows that opened, the photos of her needed to be more flattering, the orchestra should be a particular pitch, and she would approach the stage from a certain direction. But despite making many detailed requests about a planned concert series with John Farnham, New Zealand diva Dame Kiri […]

The government got 10 months of J. Tony Serra’s freedom for his long-running tax boycott. This week, the rebel lawyer from San Francisco struck back with an attempt to get more money for the hours he worked behind bars. Standing in his office before a life-size painting of an orange-clad inmate and two shadowy guards

Mark Kipnis, the former Hollinger lawyer accused of helping Conrad Black and others engineer a $60m fraud at the newspaper publisher, relied heavily on the legal and accounting advice of a top law firm in Canada and KPMG, according to his attorney’s opening defence statement on Wednesday. While prosecutors this week painted Mr Kipnis as

A House Judiciary subcommittee today authorized subpoenas for Karl Rove, President Bush’s political adviser, and other senior White House officials in the investigation into the firing of eight United States attorneys. Democrats said the subpoenas, approved on a voice vote of the panel, would not be issued immediately but could provide leverage for Congress in

The search for a jury in the murder trial of legendary record producer Phil Spector focused immediately on the power of celebrities in Los Angeles and whether they have an advantage over other defendants. “Do you think that people of wealth or fame are treated differently in the court system?” asked a written questionnaire submitted

Wal-Mart asserted yesterday in a court filing that two of its former top marketing officials had engaged in a sexual relationship during the process of selecting new advertising agencies and had sought jobs with one of the agencies they ultimately recommended. The legal brief directly contradicted the statements the executives have made since they were

For all his wealth and influence, the fallen media mogul Conrad Black is little more than a common thief – except that he used arcane financial documents, rather than crowbars and guns, to seize his loot of $60m, according to US prosecutors. In an opening statement at Lord Black’s racketeering trial in Chicago, assistant US

Burt Neuborne, who has spent eight years as the lead settlement counsel for Holocaust survivors around the world, should receive $3 million in fees for his work, a federal magistrate judge recommended late Thursday. The recommendation from Eastern District of New York Magistrate Judge James Orenstein, in a 104-page report, attempted to reach a middle

Lawyers for Qualcomm started the week the same way they ended the last one: battling legal challenges from competitors. On Monday morning, Nokia announced that it has filed complaints against Qualcomm in Germany and the Netherlands requesting declarations that Qualcomm’s European patents are exhausted in respect of products placed on the European Union market. Nokia

Hundreds of lawyers will demonstrate outside Parliament today in protest at alleged mis-management of legal aid lawyers by the Legal Services Commission and the Department of Constitutional Affairs. Legal aid lawyers claim their action has been sparked by a disregard for the facts by both organisations, unwillingness to listen and determination to impose measures which