Law Firms

The assassination of an investigative judge working on the forthcoming trial of Saddam Hussein has raised fears that insurgents will target legal proceedings against Iraq’s former regime. Judge Barwez Mohammed Mahmoud and his son, Aryan, were murdered outside their home in Baghdad’s northern Adamiyah district on Tuesday evening, the same day that five members of […]

Delivering a magisterial closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney William Johnson tied the various strands of the case against Bernard J. Ebbers tightly enough to likely secure a conviction, and offered a roadmap for making cases against CEOs in other instances, as well. Thursday, it will be up to the defense to argue that the road

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

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

Michael Jackson’s lawyer said on Tuesday the pop star would tell the jury in his child molestation case how his teenage accuser had run wild at his Neverland Valley ranch, drinking wine and looking at porn, while his mother hatched a scheme to extort money. Concluding his opening statements, attorney Tom Mesereau said his client

Microsoft is in the middle of a global review of its law firms as it attempts to control spiralling legal costs caused mainly by its endless antitrust and patent litigation. It is understood that the world’s largest software house has frozen hourly rates until the selection process is completed. Those firms chosen so far have

Bernard Ebbers, the forrmer chief executive of WorldCom, told a jury in New York on Monday that he lacked any knowledge of accounting so left all such decisions to his chief financial officer. “To this day, I don’t know technology, I don’t know finance and accounting,” said Mr Ebbers, who is accused of orchestrating an

Todd A Smith is one of the nation’s leading medical malpractice lawyers, renowned and feared in the courtroom, having extracted a lengthy string of multimillion-dollar settlements and verdicts from doctors, hospitals and insurers over the years. Though wealthy even by the standards of his profession, Mr. Smith, 55, seems to have lost none of the

A federal judge in Manhattan has cut in half a request for attorney fees in a securities class action that resulted in a $300 million settlement. “[I]t is not thirty times more difficult to settle a thirty million dollar case as it is to settle a one million dollar case,” Southern District Judge Loretta A.

Act that Prince despises is used to back his marriage By Marie Woolf, Chief Political Correspondent 24 February 2005 The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles can marry as it is their right under the Human Rights Act, the Lord Chancellor has said in a written statement to MPs. In a bid to quash