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It was merely the latest success story for a charismatic individual whose colourful CV suggests that he has always been something of a young man in a hurry. By his mid-twenties, the rugby-playing, motorbike-riding Mr Nulty was already a former fashion model and a former television presenter. After qualifiying as a solicitor, he joined a […]

Surrender your cellular phone and BlackBerry. Send your personal effects on a conveyor belt that spirits them off to the X-ray machine. Sign on the dotted line. Accept a numbered metal chit, reminiscent of a dog’s rabies tag, to be returned in order to reclaim mechanical gizmos upon exiting, and presto, you are in the

Police investigators believe Anna Politkovskaya, a 48-year-old mother of two, was killed as she was getting out of an elevator at her apartment building in central Moscow on Saturday. She had two gunshot wounds, including one to the head, police said. Politkovskaya had won international fame for exposing human-rights abuses by Russian soldiers in Chechnya.

U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob made the award, which was reduced from the requested $16 million, Tuesday. The money will be split between the New York-based nonprofit Children’s Rights Inc., and the Atlanta firm of Bondurant, Mixon and Elmore. The attorneys deserved the award because their lawsuit had beneficial results despite the state’s resistance to

The search leader has made it clear that it wants to index all of the works in print, including copyrighted works. Under Google’s plans, web users would be able to view snippets of the contents of copyrighted works, in a similar way that Amazon enables visitors to browse portions of selected titles. However, Amazon and

A white-collar defense attorney in Los Angeles, Marmalefsky leads a team of three lawyers, pro bono, that represents a University of California, Irvine history professor, who, since 1983, has sought the release of FBI documents related to its surveillance of Lennon in the early 1970s. What started out as a compelling freedom-of-information challenge for a

As any attorney will tell you, disputes over the application and scope of the attorney-client privilege arise often in everyday lawsuits that are of interest only to the parties involved. But they also apparently arise in high-profile cases involving celebrity defendants. The case of Constand v. Cosby is a perfect example. In this case involving