Law Firms

Microsoft’s chief executive vowed last year to crush Google, the Internet search company, while a Google executive urged colleagues to pursue the hiring of a Microsoft employee “like wolves,” according to documents filed on Friday in an increasingly bitter legal battle. The allegations, filed in a Washington State court, came in a showdown prompted by […]

A Texas grand jury indicted Rep. Tom DeLay on a new charge of money laundering Monday, less than a week after another grand jury leveled a conspiracy charge that forced DeLay to temporarily step down as House majority leader. Both indictments accuse DeLay and two political associates of conspiring to get around a state ban

A defence lawyer involved in the trial of Saddam Hussein is among eight people Iraq’s Interior Ministry says have been abducted by armed kidnappers. According to a report by The Associated Press, police in Baghdad identified the lawyer as Saadoun Sghaiyer al-Janabi, the counsel for Awad al-Bandar, one of seven Baath Party officials being tried

Sullivan & Cromwell has kicked off the year-end bonus season by informing associates they will receive additional compensation starting at $30,000 for first-years and ranging up to $50,000 for senior associates. The bonus, which pushes total first-year compensation to $155,000, is unchanged from last year, a fact likely to disappoint many associates, especially since bonuses

American International Group Inc. will be the first insurer to settle an inquiry into bid-rigging when it pays about $1.6 billion to resolve state and federal probes of accounting and sales practices, said a person familiar with the negotiations. AIG, the world’s largest insurer, will compensate victims of price fixing as part of an accord

Barlows has handled more reported negligence claims against law firms and solicitors in the past 12 months than any other firm. It acts for four London City firms and regularly receives instructions from three out of the five main legal insurers (The St Paul, Zurich and QBE), as well as the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF)

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found “Female employees were subjected to disparate treatment in compensation, terms, conditions and privileges of employment,” said Spencer Lewis Jr., New York district director of the EEOC, in an opinion dated Thursday and made public Monday. Lewis also found that Boies, Schiller & Flexner maintained a two-tier system of compensation

Auckland lawyer Michael Corry will lead a team of 18 salaried lawyers working full-time on legal aid cases in the Auckland and Manukau courts from May next year. The manager of strategic development for the Legal Services Agency, Frances Blyth, said the three-year Public Defence Services pilot aimed to deliver “a quality, consistent service” for

The management of Weil Gotshal’s global litigation practice is being decentralised following 100 per cent departmental growth in the past five years. The department has grown sufficiently large for James Quinn, Weil Gotshal’s chairman of global litigation, to restructure it and devolve greater power to practice group heads. To put this into effect, the department

Therese Stewart didn’t set out to be a partner at a law firm. Academics or public interest, that seemed more her style when she graduated from University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law in 1981. But she liked working at the intellectually oriented Howard Rice and “fell in love with trial practice,” she