Top committees of the two firms recommended a deal, the two said yesterday. The combined firm would be called Dewey Orrick, with 1,500 lawyers and offices around the world. Together, they would form the seventh-largest law office in New York, and have revenue around $1 billion, the firms said in a joint statement. The merger […]
People who write about war — and many do — generally end up writing about the wars of their own place and time. From the start, legal questions have been at the center of debates about my own country’s recent wars, none more than our current “global war on terror.” Is Guantanamo an egregious violation
In less than a week, Ken Lay’s criminal conviction in the Enron Scandal has been formally thrown out because of his death, and former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skillling has been sentenced to 24 years in prison. But if anyone thinks that means the end of the Enron legal battles, they are as mistaken as the
IBM said it had filed two lawsuits against Amazon, alleging that the group has infringed five patents. The patents cover technologies which Amazon uses to recommend additional purchases to customers, technologies that are used to store data, and technologies that determine which advertisements are displayed on the site. The lawsuits were filed in two district
U.S. District Court Judge Sim Lake sentenced Skilling today at a hearing in Houston after listening to testimony of seven victims of the Enron fraud. A jury convicted Skilling, 52, in May on 19 counts of fraud, conspiracy and insider trading after a four-month trial. He faced a range of 24 to 30 years in
As Google has grown into the world’s most popular search engine and, arguably, the most powerful Internet company, it has become entangled in scores of lawsuits touching on a wide range of legal questions, including copyright violation, trademark infringement and its method of ranking Web sites. Any company that is large and successful is going
Along Dubai’s Sheikh Zayed Road, construction cranes seem almost as plentiful as sand. Hotels and office buildings are going up by the dozen, and already some of the world’s most recognizable corporate names-CNN, Cisco Systems, and Microsoft-dot the landscape. There’s a billboard advertising “the most prestigious kilometer on the planet,” an extravagant new downtown project
State Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos said Grasso failed to ensure that the NYSE board understood the “magnitude” of his ballooning pay, particularly the more than $100 million in retirement benefits that he quietly accrued in his last few years on the job. The case was brought by New York Atty. Gen. Eliot Spitzer, who
The Rev. Anthony Mercieca, in a telephone interview with The Washington Post from the Maltese island of Gozo, said he was surprised that his long-ago interaction with Foley had become linked to the scandal that erupted last month and cost the former congressman his job . Foley, who served as an altar boy at the
The ruling requires Swiss Reinsurance Co., a Lloyds of London syndicate and seven other insurers to treat the Sept. 11 terror attack as a single total loss claim, and pay trade center leaseholder Larry Silverstein accordingly. St. Paul Travelers Cos., Allianz SE and seven other insurers will be required to pay Silverstein on a two-loss
