Law Firms

Federal investigators want to question two former Apple Inc. lawyers about a backdated stock- option grant to Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Apple shares fell 1.2 percent after the newspaper said investigators seek to interview Wendy Howell and former general counsel Nancy Heinen. Howell, […]

Police in Spain have arrested Argentine ex-President Isabel Peron over the 1976 disappearance of a leftist activist. An Argentine judge on Thursday issued a warrant for her arrest, in connection with a right-wing paramilitary group active during her time in office. Mrs Peron has since been released from custody. Argentina now has 40 days in

A former Hewlett-Packard Co. private investigator pleaded guilty to posing as a reporter and company directors to get telephone records for an internal probe of boardroom leaks. Bryan Wagner, 29, of Littleton, Colorado, admitted identification theft and conspiracy today before U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose, California. Wagner’s lawyer said his client didn’t

David Beckham will leave Real Madrid at the end of the season and join side Los Angeles Galaxy on a £128million ($250 million) five-year deal – which works out at a mere half-a-million pounds a week. David Beckham, the embodiment of Real Madrid’s ‘Galacticos’ ethos, will be leaving the famous Bernabeu stadium. The former England

Maybe Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs should use his new iPhone to call a good trademark lawyer. That’s the advice of several attorneys and IT analysts regarding Apple’s decision to call its new combination mobile phone, iPod and Internet communications device an “iPhone” — even though that name is a registered trademark held by Cisco

Efforts by lawyers and the Press Complaints Commission to protect Prince William’s friend, Kate Middleton, from constant harassment by photographers appeared to be paying off today after a frenzy of activity yesterday. Miss Middleton found herself facing massed ranks of photographers when she left her flat in Chelsea yesterday morning – her 25th birthday –

An attorney fighting to retain former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso’s $100 million compensation package told a higher court Wednesday that a fully informed “blue chip” board of directors approved the compensation and he should not be forced to give it back. Grasso’s attorney, Gerson A. Zweifach, is seeking to have a lower

The planned merger between Dewey Ballantine and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has been abandoned amid wrangling over management control, ending one of the most anticipated combinations of the year. The firms’ London offices were putting on brave faces in the wake of the decision. Orrick London managing partner Martin Bartlam told The Lawyer: “We’ve always

State Farm, the largest U.S. home insurer, said it is close to settling hundreds of lawsuits over its payments for homes wrecked by Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but the state said no agreement had been reached. A State Farm spokesman confirmed a report in Tuesday’s New York Times which cited lawyers briefed

Few people would regard judges as high-priests of hi-tech but they do seem to have recognised something that Daniela Cicarelli and Brazilian banker Renato Malzoni have yet to appreciate. And that is the near impossibility of trying to stop illicitly taken photos or video circulating online. As Ms Cicarelli and Mr Malzoni have learnt to