Law Firms

What the firms on the 2003 A-List have in common is outstanding results across the four categories. For example, 14 of the top 20 firms finished in the top quarter of The Am Law 200 in three of the four categories, and two firms — Arnold & Porter and Latham & Watkins — were four […]

The charges against Ebbers were laid after Scott Sullivan, his former chief financial officer, agreed to plead guilty to similar charges and co-operate with federal investigators probing the collapse of the US telecommunications giant two years ago. Mr Ebbers, who resigned from WorldCom shortly before the company filed for bankruptcy protection from its creditors amid

The first trial of Enron executives is set to begin in 10 days, and a judge said Thursday he expects to be able to pick a fair jury in Houston. U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein told the lawyers for two former Enron executives and four former Merrill Lynch executives accused of fraud in the sale

At Westminster,among Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs, the name Elizabeth Wilmshurst has become something of a byword for principle and pluck. Ms Wilmshurst was the lawyer who defied her political masters at the Foreign Office and told them they would violate international law if they joined the American invasion of Iraq. Her political masters ignored

Some cried “foul,” but hiring used jurors is an ever more common practice, although it hasn’t been talked about much. And while in most states hiring a juror is not a crime or unethical under professional conduct rules, some in the legal community think it’s just not right. Lawyers hiring former jurors goes back at

It was an embarrassing mistake for famed litigator David Boies, one that turned into what the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called “a lawyer’s nightmare.” Monday, an en banc panel decided 8-3 to give Boies a reprieve. The error — a missed filing deadline — was made by a calendaring clerk at Boies, Schiller

Partners at U.S. law firm Piper Rudnick LLP and London-based DLA voted to merge, creating the world’s third- largest law firm by number of lawyers. The merger will be completed on Jan. 1, the firms said in a press release. The combined firm will have 2,700 lawyers across 49 offices in the U.S., Europe and

In his harshest criticism of the Kremlin to date, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the businessman who founded Russia’s largest oil producer, Yukos, accused the government of stealing his oil empire and warned in a letter published Tuesday that a continuing crackdown on post-Soviet freedoms would ruin the country. Writing from prison, where he has been held

Whatever reasons Walt Disney thought they had to fire Michael Ovitz, they were not good enough to send him away without $140m in severance, the Delaware chancery court heard on Friday. John Fox, an employment lawyer from California, said none of the former group president’s failings during his brief stint at Disney in the mid-1990s

Eliot Spitzer, New York’s attorney-general and a possible candidate for governor of New York state in 2006, has done his reputation no harm by humbling yet another financial giant. On Monday January 31st, he announced that Marsh & McLennan, the world’s biggest insurance broker, which he has hounded since the middle of 2004, is to