Law Firms

When its financial year closes at the end of March, Slaughter and May will have set a record for profitability in the UK legal market. Already the only European firm among the world’s ten most profitable law firms, Slaughter and May’s top partners are set to pocket £2.5 million each this year, a jump of

I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted on Tuesday of lying to a grand jury and to F.B.I. agents investigating the leak of the identity of a C.I.A. operative in the summer of 2003 amid a fierce public dispute over the war in Iraq. Mr. Libby,

In the course of a decade, Greenberg Traurig has had the kind of growth usually reserved for businesses that sell oil or iPods. Revenues are up by more than 880 percent from 1996, and in 2006 they topped the billion-dollar mark. Profits per partner have soared from $480,000 to $1.2 million. The firm has opened

Britain’s highest-paid woman is embroiled in a bitter legal battle with two former workers that threatens to lay bare the secretive world of hedge funds. Ikos, the £1 billion company owned by Elena Ambrosiadou, is being sued for £26 million by Julian and Lucien Gover, 41-year-old twins who once held senior positions in it. They

The arrest of a prominent attorney on charges of destroying evidence in a child pornography investigation is raising alarm bells that a law targeting corporate accounting schemes could be used to prosecute lawyers over work done on their clients’ behalf. “Every criminal defense lawyer in the country has to be alarmed at the indictment,” said

The Duke of Edinburgh could soon be forced to appoint lawyers to defend himself against allegations that he ‘masterminded’ the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. A High Court ruling on Friday that the inquest into the deaths of Diana and her lover, Dodi Fayed, should be heard by a jury has made the prospect

The jury deliberating the perjury and obstruction of justice case against I. Lewis Libby Jr. recessed for the weekend on Friday without reaching a verdict, but not before leaving an intriguing clue as to the state of deliberations. The jurors sent a note with a question to Judge Reggie B. Walton, who is expected to

The Pentagon filed a war crimes charge against Australian David Hicks on Thursday, making the former kangaroo skinner the first target of new military commissions designed by the White House and endorsed by Congress to try terrorism suspects imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. The indictment charges Hicks with a single count of providing material support for