Law Firms

A former Merrill Lynch lawyer who last July settled a sex discrimination case with the U.S. bank, said on Tuesday a reference it gave her was the “death knell” for her chances of getting into a prestigious U.S. business school. Elizabeth Weston, who left Merrill in March 2004, alleges she was victimised in a reference […]

Parties involved in a family dispute that threatens to break up a Utah law firm say they have been contacted in an FBI investigation. The dispute involves the firm Gregory, Barton and Swapp, famous for it’s television commercials boasting, “One Call, That’s All.” Keith Barton, the public face of the firm in commercials, is being

The ruling, which hinged on jurisdiction issues, may not put an end to the case, which began working it way through the courts in 1991. There are more than 11,000 claims pending and attorneys at Miami-based Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson expect to spend years getting all of the claims paid. “We expect

One of the country’s top law firms has been fined almost £40,000 for refusing to allow a woman employee to work flexible hours, in a case experts say typifies the failure of some employers to adapt to new family-friendly rights for white-collar staff. The Equal Opportunities Commission said yesterday the case involving Herbert Smith, a

Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc. said on Wednesday it agreed to pay $120 million to settle lawsuits brought by the family of former Major League Baseball star Roger Maris. The brewer said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it would take a pretax charge of $105 million in the third quarter. The

According to documents presented in a legal tussle between Internet rivals Microsoft and Google, Ballmer vowed to “kill” Google in an obscenity-laden tirade last November. Sworn evidence from a former Microsoft engineer, Mark Lucovsky, claimed Ballmer picked up his chair and hurled it across his office, before saying of Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt: “I’m going

Seeking to quell unrest on his conservative flank, President Bush mounted a defense Tuesday of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, insisting that his friend and former personal lawyer was “the best person I could find” for the job. “I can understand people not knowing Harriet. She hasn’t been one of these publicity hounds,” Bush said

Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and his six co-defendants announced yesterday that they would boycott their trial unless the court was moved to another country for their own safety. Their decision followed the kidnapping and murder last week of Saadoun al-Janabi, the lawyer of Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former head of Saddam’s revolutionary court. Al-Janabi was

Linklaters, SJ Berwin, Macfarlanes and Diageo’s legal team were among the big winners at the 2005 Legal Week Awards. Linklaters was named International Firm of the Year with Legal Week’s editorial team citing a year of international expansion, impressive financial performance and slick management. SJ Berwin narrowly beat the highly-rated Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) to