Law Firms

Dickie Scruggs, a Mississippi trial lawyer who led the charge against Big Tobacco in the 1990s, helping 46 states win a $246 billion settlement, once described the features of a “magic jurisdiction” in America’s tort system. Speaking at an asbestos conference in 2002, he said that such a place would have judges elected with “verdict […]

A judge and a lawyer with the special tribunal that will try Saddam Hussein and former members of his government were shot and killed Tuesday by gunmen outside their home here, Iraqi officials said. It was the first time a member of the tribunal is known to have been assassinated, though a number of criminal

Not for the first time, a piece of financial regulation with a “made in Brussels” label is causing a stir in the City. Some bankers and lawyers in London’s financial district are upset about the market abuse directive, which aims to create a European Union-wide regime for preventing and detecting misdeeds such as insider trading

John Carroll, the managing partner of Clifford Chance’s Americas region has announced he is stepping down from the role, nearly nine months before his term was due to expire. The move comes just two months after managing partner Peter Cornell jetted to New York to troubleshoot the firm’s US operation. Carroll, who cited a desire

The music business should have stuck by Thomas Edison’s technology if it wanted to avoid the threat of piracy. His wax cylinders could record a performance but could not be reproduced; that became possible only with the invention of the flat-disc record some years later. On Tuesday March 29th, America’s Supreme Court began to hear

A former security guard at Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch told a lurid and graphic story Thursday about seeing the singer sexually abusing a child in the early 1990s, but was attacked by Jackson’s lawyer as making the whole thing up “to get even.” Ralph Chacon was called to the stand in Jackson’s child molestation trial

The search began today for a jury that will spend the next couple of months trying to sort out whether Enron executives indulged in lies or mere hype in an attempt to make their Internet business look good. Five men from the company’s once-promising Enron Broadband Systems are accused of 170 counts of conspiracy, wire

Whatever prosecutors hoped to achieve by calling Michael Jackson’s former wife to the witness stand, it was the defense lawyers who left happy at the end of the day Thursday. Deborah Rowe, mother of two of Jackson’s children, testified that her former husband was “generous to a fault, a good father, great with kids, puts

The attorney who successfully argued the Blakely and Crawford cases in debut appearances before the Supreme Court. The youngest dean in Columbia Law School history. The first woman to become attorney general of Illinois. These attorneys and others, who’ve made partner, overseen multibillion-dollar mergers and coordinated cases on multiple continents, all before age 40, are

Broadcom Corp., an Irvine semiconductor maker that wants to get into the market for making chips that run cell phones, has filed two lawsuits accusing San Diego’s Qualcomm of infringing on its patents. The lawsuits, filed Wednesday in federal court in Santa Ana, said Qualcomm is infringing on 10 Broadcom patents for such technology as