Law Firms

John Yoo doesn’t come across like a war criminal, though that’s one of the charges leveled against the smooth young law professor from the University of California at Berkeley’s storied Boalt Hall. With his even tones and calm demeanor, his natty suits, and warm charm, the 37-year-old constitutional scholar seems the embodiment of ”reasonable.” He’s […]

The prospect of winning massive, multimillion dollar verdicts has turned the original mass tort–asbestos litigation–into the ultimate mass farce. There are now about 49,000 asbestos plaintiffs awaiting trial in Lexington, Fayette, Port Gibson, Pascagoula, and other propitious plaintiffs’ venues in Mississippi, and at least 200,000 more cases nationwide–mainly concentrated in other favorable plaintiffs’ locales sprinkled

Accounting experts think it unlikely that the US Department of Justice will bring criminal charges against accounting firm KPMG over the sale of abusive tax shelters. The Justice Department has been investigating past sales of certain tax shelters by KPMG for several months . The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that US prosecutors had built

U.S. District Judge Paul Cassell isn’t the sort of judge you would call a weak-kneed, bleeding-heart, soft-on-crime liberal. From his clerkship with then-Appeals Court Judge Antonin Scalia, to his provocative articles as a University of Utah law professor, to his (unsuccessful) U.S. Supreme Court argument that police shouldn’t have to warn suspects they can remain

No need to brace yourself — yet — for the reappearance of the hostile-takeover sharpies of the 1980s or even the foosball-and-flip-flop gazillionaires of the late-’90s tech boom, but recently law firms have been gleefully watching their profits climb of late to levels not seen in years. Plumped up by healthy litigation practices, Sarbanes-Oxley work

Linklaters is the most productive of London’s 20 largest law firms, generating 24 percent more in fees per employee than bigger competitor Clifford Chance LLP, a Bloomberg survey found. The world’s second-largest law firm had revenue per employee of 168,763 pounds ($304,000) in fiscal 2005, about 32,000 pounds more than Clifford Chance and 20,000 pounds

Microsoft EUMicrosoft has launched a legal challenge to protect itself from an order by the European Commission to make valuable information about the group’s flagship Windows operating system available to rivals in the open-source community. The move comes is the latest twist in the long anti-trust battle between the Commission and the US software group

Russian prosecutors have launched a series of raids during the past 48 hours at banks, businesses and offices associated with the floundering oil company Yukos and its founder and former chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The raids appear to be the preamble to fresh charges being laid against the jailed oil magnate. On Wednesday, police searched

A mum who worked part-time at a top City law firm after having a baby has won a landmark legal battle over her right to work flexi hours, it was revealed today. Michelle Langton, 34, worked as a senior manager at Herbert Smith for six years until January last year. In April 2002 she returned

Many executives dream of dominating their industries the way BAR/BRI does the business of helping law school graduates prepare for bar examinations. Every law student knows BAR/BRI. Hundreds of thousands of them have taken its courses to pass the bar, an essential step in most states before a law school graduate can practice law. Some