A merger between the Boston-based Ropes and Gray law firm with Fish and Neave, a law firm with offices in New York and Washington DC, has been finalized. Ropes and Gray Chairman Bradford Malt perviously said the merger would create a powerful new resource for its clients. The combined firms will employ 750 lawyers and […]
The commander of three British servicemen accused of mistreating Iraqi detainees testified Friday that he told soldiers to make their prisoners “work hard” picking up garbage but saw no abuse. A Danish army captain and four military police sergeants, meanwhile, were formally charged with mistreating Iraqi detainees at a military camp near Basra last year.
White House counsel Alberto Gonzales won U.S. Senate confirmation on Thursday as the nation’s next attorney general, but recorded the second highest number of “no” votes for a successful nominee for the post. The Republican-led Senate rejected Democrats’ complaints that he helped craft policies that contributed to the torture of foreign detainees and approved him
A group of eight former lawyers with Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault on Thursday filed to take their former employer into involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy, an unusual move that could complicate the firm’s plans to liquidate. The Chapter 11 petition, filed Feb. 17 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Massachusetts, seeks to
Greed, power and worry drove Bernard Ebbers, the former chief executive of WorldCom Inc., to mastermind a fraud that cost investors billions of dollars, a U.S. prosecutor said in closing arguments on Wednesday. Assistant U.S. Attorney William Johnson told jurors that on Ebber’s watch, “WorldCom had truly become WorldCon. “Bernie Ebbers was the leader of
Finding Baker Botts breached its fiduciary duty in connection with estate-planning work done for a wealthy widow in Kerrville, Texas, a jury in Kerr County returned a $65.5 million verdict on Feb. 25 against the Houston-based firm and other defendants. By a 10-2 vote, the jury found Baker Botts breached its fiduciary duty for failing
A federal judge weighed the fate of a brain-damaged Florida woman on Monday, acting hours after the U.S. Congress and President Bush intervened to push the highly charged right-to-die case back into court. U.S. District Judge James Whittemore began a hearing shortly after 3 p.m. EST to consider a request from Terri Schiavo’s parents to
When Johnson Tan rented a 300-square-metre room for Jones Day’s Beijing office two years ago, he worried the space might be too big. Tan, partner at Jones Day’s Beijing office, had reason to worry, as the company faced numerous uncertainties when it first arrived in Beijing. For example, the city was being ravaged by the
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has issued subpoenas to at least two of the nation’s three largest drug distributors in what appears to be a probe into the way the companies buy drugs from each other. AmerisourceBergen Corp., Chesterbrook, Pa., in a filing late Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission said one of
Enron Corp.’s once-proud broadband unit was little more than a mishmash of questionable software, accounting tricks and unkept promises, a U.S. prosecutor said as the trial of five former executives got under way on Tuesday. “The mission of Enron Broadband Services (EBS) was to pump up the Enron stock price by telling investors they had
