A leading barrister stopped representing his client in the middle of a fraud trial after his daily rate was reduced to £600 when the man ran out of funds and had to take legal aid. Alun Jones, a Queen’s Counsel who had already earned more than £250,000 from the fraud case, pulled out when his […]
Sullivan & Cromwell has stayed in pole position at the top of the US M&A tables for the first half of 2004, with corporate stalwarts Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Cravath Swaine & Moore both surging up the table. Sullivan kept the top place, which it secured in the first quarter, by advising on
Along with Saddam, Giovanni Di Stefano boasts clients such as Nicholas van Hoogstraten, the controversial property developer who was recently acquitted of manslaughter, timeshare fraudster John “Goldfinger” Palmer and “road rage” killer Kenneth Noye. He was interviewed in March on BBC World’sHardtalk programme, which said the lawyer’s “friends and clients read like a Who’s Who
Staying with the outside counsel you know is the theme of Corporate Counsel’s third annual Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies survey. While some in-house lawyers say they are eager to break long-standing ties with firms in exchange for outside counsel with more attractive fee arrangements, most GCs stick with the large firms they know and
High-earning lawyers are to have their fees cut under plans to limit the length of all criminal trials to six months. The move follows a parliamentary report that found a mere six cases cost the taxpayer a quarter of the Crown Court legal aid budget. There are also concerns that long trials are a strain
As managing partners across the country are in the process of tabulating bonuses for 2004, it appears that associates at East Coast firms may have the jolliest holidays of all. Bonuses for new and senior associates this year at many East Coast firms are on the rise, while the year-end perks at some Midwest firms
The U.S. military prison guard convicted of abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib said on Saturday he complained repeatedly to superiors about the rough treatment he was forced to mete out to prisoners. Charles Graner, who was found guilty on Friday on 10 charges in the scandal that has badly damaged America’s reputation, said during
The judge in the Michael Jackson child molestation case said Tuesday he was ready to proceed to the next step in the jury selection process, saying enough potential jurors have been selected. The announcement by Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville came after a group of 250 potential jurors have been picked from about 450 people
Vindicated in the longest court battle in British legal history, David Morris and Helen Steel celebrated in London yesterday – not with the customary champagne outside the High Court, but with a demonstration outside McDonald’s. For 15 years the two activists from north London fought a case against the world’s biggest burger chain which seemed
Todd A Smith is one of the nation’s leading medical malpractice lawyers, renowned and feared in the courtroom, having extracted a lengthy string of multimillion-dollar settlements and verdicts from doctors, hospitals and insurers over the years. Though wealthy even by the standards of his profession, Mr. Smith, 55, seems to have lost none of the
