Law Firms

A secretary has won a nine-year legal battle against the Government in a case that will have far-reaching consequences for thousands of women. Michelle Alabaster began legal proceedings after claiming that her former employer broke European sex discrimination law by underpaying her during maternity leave. Spanning nearly a decade, the case passed from an employment […]

A majority of partners of Holland & Knight support the law firm’s managing partner, despite his promotion several weeks ago of an attorney disciplined for sexual harassment, said a Holland & Knight spokeswoman. Also, the continued coverage of the issue by the media, while disruptive, isn’t having much effect on the 1,250-lawyer firm, said Martha

“There is a legitimate question, if it is corrupt competition,” says UCLA law professor Lynn LoPucki. His recently released book makes the same controversial assertion, and that has the bankruptcy bar steamed. It has become so common for big corporations to file bankruptcy reorganization cases in either Delaware or New York, no matter where the

More college graduates are applying to law school, according to the Law School Admission Council, which administers the LSAT exam. Law school applications have risen steadily over the past few years, reaching a record 99,504 applicants last year, up 9.5% from 2002, it said. The growing number suggests more people are interested in careers in

A leading City law firm has challenged its rivals to donate hundreds of thousands of pounds that they earn as interest on client accounts to cash-strapped legal aid centres. Allen & Overy, one of the “magic circle” of top five firms, is to give voluntary legal agencies all the extra interest retained from clients’ cash

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether the government can withhold federal funds from colleges that bar military recruiters, wading into a dispute over campus free speech rights. The justices will review in their next term beginning in October a ruling allowing law schools to restrict recruiters as a way of protesting the

The potential postponement this week of the first trial against Merck over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx could be unfavourable for the US drugmaker, as plaintiffs’ attorneys push a stronger case. An Alabama state judge is scheduled to hold a hearing on Tuesday on whether to postpone the trial originally scheduled for May 23. Both Merck

In his 39 years as a corporate lawyer, Andrew Bogen had seen his share of headstrong CEOs. So he wasn’t especially surprised by the excitable man glaring at him across the room. Craig Conway, the president and chief executive officer of PeopleSoft, Inc., had good reason to be agitated. His company had just been targeted

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 Supreme Court has heard its last argument of the session. Now the question is whether ailing Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has heard the last argument of his 33-year career on the high court. Rehnquist, 80, has been the focus of retirement speculation since disclosing in October that he had thyroid cancer. He defied