Law Firms

The Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee said today that he believed the Bush administration had violated the law with its warrantless surveillance program and that its legal justifications for the program were “strained and unrealistic.” The program “is in flat violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” said the chairman, Senator Arlen Specter […]

The Judge ruled that Lady Archer, 58 was entitled to a wide-ranging injunction against Jane Williams, her employee for 13 years until November 2001, and damages of £2,500. He said Lady Archer was not “a public figure” whose activities could be scrutinised in the public interest. Lady Archer alleged that Ms Williams, 49, was the

Common Good, a new body led by Covington vice-chairman Philip Howard, is aiming to kill off the claim culture in the US. Howard, who also happens to be vice-chairman of US law firm Covington & Burling, relates how the child of one of his colleagues recently returned from summer camp with bad sunburn. “All the

These are the key findings of Legal Week’s inaugural survey of independent law firms in Europe, which suggests that domestic European firms are regaining confidence after the dramatic expansion of UK- and US-headquartered firms into their market over the last five years. Just 19% of the respondents to the survey said they would consider a

The company’s founding family also conspired with employees to mislead investors, banks and bondholders about the true state of Adelphia’s financial condition, and Rigas and his two sons were issued $1.5 billion in company stock that they never paid for, said Richard D. Owens, chief of the Securities Fraud Division of the U.S Department of

Eliot Spitzer’s political future seems to grow brighter every day. The New York attorney general has earned a rep as a tough regulator of white-collar fraud with his crackdown on Wall Street stock research and mutual funds. Many political pros say he’s a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination for governor of New York in 2006,

The founding partner of Baker Johnson Lawyers, one of Brisbane’s biggest law firms, has stood down from his position amid claims he allegedly overcharged clients and called them crude names. Michael Vincent Baker, who faces being struck from the Roll of Solicitors, retired as a partner on Thursday, but will stay on as a consultant.

The vast profits being made by Britain’s top lawyers will be laid bare in a report to be published tomorrow which shows the leading 100 firms sharing revenues of £9.11bn and profits of £2.7bn. In response to mounting concern that lawyers are putting profits before ethics, the Law Society is planning to impose tough new

Following Piper Rudnick’s agreement to acquire San Diego firm Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, DLA and Piper Rudnick are now due to vote on the ‘second leg’ of a strategy to build a world top-10 law firm. The new Piper Rudnick Gray Cary is a 1300-attorney firm. However the addition of DLA would create a

One of the biggest law firms in Chicago is about to become one of the biggest in the world. Piper Rudnick, which five years ago was a Chicago-based firm of 355 lawyers, agreed Saturday to merge with the British law firm DLA to create a legal giant of 2,700 lawyers. The deal, set to close