Law Firms

The New York Times this morning reports that I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby apparently first learned that Joseph Wilson’s wife was a CIA agent from none other than his boss — Vice President Cheney. This new revelation suggests that special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity has reached even closer […]

In 1996, Eugene Stearns and his Miami-based law firm joined a team of lawyers representing thousands of gas station owners around the country who claimed they’d been ripped off by oil giant Exxon. Just before Stearns and his firm signed on as lead trial counsel with the team, which included Pertnoy Solowsky & Allen of

A mum who worked part-time at a top City law firm after having a baby has won a landmark legal battle over her right to work flexi hours, it was revealed today. Michelle Langton, 34, worked as a senior manager at Herbert Smith for six years until January last year. In April 2002 she returned

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

Former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) appeared in court Friday for the first time in a money laundering and conspiracy case against him, but his arraignment was postponed after his lawyer asked the judge, a Democrat, to recuse himself. In a brief statement read to reporters afterward, DeLay harshly denounced the prosecutor in the

A defence lawyer involved in the trial of Saddam Hussein is among eight people Iraq’s Interior Ministry says have been abducted by armed kidnappers. According to a report by The Associated Press, police in Baghdad identified the lawyer as Saadoun Sghaiyer al-Janabi, the counsel for Awad al-Bandar, one of seven Baath Party officials being tried

The moment Saddam Hussein appeared, a Shi’ite housewife spat on the screen and then sat gnawing her fingers, seething, as her family crowded around the television. When the judge addressed the ousted president as “Mr. Saddam,” she burst: “The beast Saddam, you mean!” Across the Tigris River in the mostly Sunni Arab district of Azamiyah,

Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has made an outspoken attack on the judicial process as his trial for crimes against humanity began. He and seven associates are charged with ordering the killing of 143 Shia men in 1982 in Dujail. He refused to confirm his identity, and questioned the validity of the trial and the

The lawyer for Saddam Hussein said Tuesday he will ask a tribunal for a three-month adjournment of the former Iraqi dictator’s trial for a 1982 massacre. Saddam and seven senior members of his 23-year regime go on trial Wednesday to face charges they ordered the killings of nearly 150 people from the mainly Shiite town

Radical reforms to modernise the legal profession and make obtaining legal advice a lot easier were outlined by the Lord Chancellor yesterday. The Government published details of plans for England and Wales to allow outside companies to own law firms. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, QC, indicated that companies would be allowed to