Law Firms

Just as he finds himself sitting in a courtroom, pondering the possibility of prison and fighting the legal battle of his life, Michael Jackson is now also facing an urgent financial crisis that could cause him to lose part of his valuable music publishing business. The onetime King of Pop, whose lavish spending and mounting […]

The deal market has returned, as big as Bill Clinton’s fabled appetites. Not since 2000, the last year of the Clinton presidency, have the transactional and equity markets been so fat. The bounce isn’t taking the markets back to the frothy levels of the late 1990s, but will certainly help inflate the revenues of dealmaking

Tony Blair’s government has been accused of committing war crimes in Iraq in a complaint by the families of dead British soldiers to the International Criminal Court. The group of 10 bereaved families claims that British troops were unlawfully ordered to use cluster bombs near civilian areas and to destroy essential power supplies which affected

Hello! magazine today claimed victory in its epic court battle over the wedding pictures of Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas. The Court of Appeal allowed its challenge to a High Court order that it should pay more than £1 million damages and another £1 million in legal costs to rival magazine OK!, which had

Linsday Murdoch was in the Denpasar courtroom as Schapelle Corby’s guilty verdict and 20-year jail sentence were handed down. As the judges neared the end of their summing up at Denpasar District Court, close-up footage of Corby showed her biting her lip, talking to herself as if in prayer and looking distressed. She appeared short

Microsoft cleared a major stumbling block on Monday and won praise from the European Commission for finally putting forward acceptable proposals to comply with European Union antitrust sanctions. The risk that the EU executive might hit the world’s largest software company with a fine of up to $5 million a day receded because Microsoft’s proposal

The ailing King Fahd, one of the world’s richest and most powerful men, is facing an embarrassing public showdown in a British court later this year with a woman who claims to be his estranged wife. The 83-year-old ruler of Saudi Arabia is being sued by Janan Harb for a share of his $22bn (£12.2bn)

Former N.C. Supreme Court Justice Robert Orr has filed, on behalf of seven plaintiffs from across the state, a lawsuit challenging state and local incentives given to Dell Inc. to convince the company to invest $100 million in a 1,500-employee computer manufacturing plant in southeast Winston-Salem. Orr, now executive director of the Raleigh-based N.C. Institute

Lovells has unveiled radical plans to help boost profitability after profit per equity partner (PEP) plunged 21 per cent at the City firm in the past financial year. The initiative, launched by Lovells managing partner David Harris, includes the introduction of a new financial system to measure the profitability of matters and clients or client

A host of UK law firms are preparing to fight pharmaceutical giant Merck over its controversial painkiller Vioxx, following Friday’s US ruling against the company. Several firms, including Alexander Harris, Freethcartwright, Hugh James and Liverpool firm MSB Solicitors, are taking cases to the US on behalf of patients and families who have suffered cardiovascular diseases