Law Firms

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 […]

Thirteen years have passed since the liquidators of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International began their suit against the Bank of England. The case finally came to court in January 2004. And now it has collapsed, after the two sides racked up legal bills of more than £100 million. It might not have lasted

The trial of Saddam Hussein was adjourned on Thursday until Feb. 13 after a session in which the judge presided with none of the defendants present. Two prosecution witnesses were allowed to testify. Saddam and the four other defendants refused to enter the courtroom for the second day in a row Thursday. The trial judge,

Merrill Lynch & Co.’s top lawyer is confident that remaining class-action lawsuits against the firm brought by investors who lost money during the dot-com boom of 1990s will be dismissed, according to an internal memo obtained by Reuters on Thursday. Rosemary Berkery, Merrill’s general counsel, offered the assessment to staff in an e-mail Wednesday afternoon

When Stephen C. Richards, a criminology professor, steps up to the rostrum on the first day of his sociology of corrections classes at Northern Kentucky University, he usually begins his lecture with a confession and a promise. “I’m an ex-con,” Mr. Richards, who served nine years in federal prison for selling marijuana, tells his students.

The network’s management has said it is currently searching for US members for its global network, with Philadelphia’s Pepper Hamilton — a referral partner of KLegal’s UK member McGrigor Donald — seen as the leading candidate. Commenting on its US ambitions, one KLegal partner said: “We are looking at creating best friends agreements with one

Don’t mention the republic or how far his leadership qualities could take him – these issues do not occupy the mind of the new Liberal candidate for Wentworth. In fact, just when Malcolm Turnbull’s elevation to the national political stage is all but assured, he has suddenly become dismissive of what many would argue helped

Mr. Cox, a former solicitor general of the United States, was an expert on labor law and the author of several books on legal matters. He often took leaves from the faculty of Harvard Law School to serve in federal government posts. In 1980 he became chairman of Common Cause, the public affairs lobby, and

After deliberating for several months over a fitting punishment for lawyer Gary Neinstein, a disciplinary panel of the Law Society of Upper Canada decided the 62-year-old man must be stripped of his right to practise law for sexually harassing two women in the mid-1990s. Mr. Neinstein, a well-known lawyer in the personal injury field, filed

Salem Chalabi, a US-qualified finance and capital markets lawyer, has been accused by Zuhair al-Maliky, Iraq’s chief investigating judge, of involvement in the murder in May of Haitham Fadhil, an official in the finance ministry. According to reports, Chalabi is vigorously denying the claims. After spending three years at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Chalabi moved