The army of lawyers swarming around Royal Dutch/Shell Group, which touched off a collapse in its stock price after it admitted inflating proved reserves, has been joined by a new, veteran member. Securities lawyer William Lerach, famed for playing a lead role in many of the biggest shareholder class action suits of the past two […]
“Tesco law” came a step closer when Britain’s biggest supermarket chain launched its own online legal service. As well as a cheap service for will writing and storage, already available from other sources, Tesco Legal Store offers Do-It-Yourself divorce kits for £7.49 that can end a marriage without the need for a solicitor. Other services
Berwin Leighton Paisner walked away with the prestigious, Law Firm of the Year award but the biggest cheer of the evening went to the winners of the Public Sector Team of the Year Award: the Hutton Inquiry team. It was that inquiry which had “ruined the summer” of the host for the evening, Tony Blair’s
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is in talks to take on the bulk of Clifford Chance’s West Coast securities litigation practice as the magic circle giant continues to overhaul its troubled US practice. The proposed deal would see nine partners from Clifford Chance’s San Francisco branch transfer to Orrick and leave Clifford Chance with only a
Brandon Villery, 29, a four-year associate at Morrison & Foerster, uses an impressive collection of legal resources, but it’s got nothing to do with the Code of Civil Procedure. It’s also a bit more interesting: Playstation, X-Box and Game Boy Advance, otherwise known as video games. One recent afternoon, Villery gathered in the conference room
The former wife of a wealthy lawyer told a court she could not believe he would have made a will leaving nothing of his multimillion-pound estate to herself or her children. Gloria Sherrington was giving evidence yesterday in the High Court during a case that aims to have the will that left everything to Richard
Survey reveals that a large number of senior lawyers believe that firms manipulate published profit figures Leading lawyers believe that law firms often massage their financial performance figures, according to a poll that shows that nearly 40% of partners think firms routinely inflate published profit figures. In the latest Legal Week/ EJ Legal Big Question
ALmost half of UK partners believe profit figures for law firms are “massaged.” Read More »
Its name evokes a world of beauty and glamour. But lately, Elite Model Management, the largest modeling network in the world, has developed a bad case of the uglies. Not long ago it was a hot agency, representing such models as Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Naomi Campbell. It still has Lauren Bush, President George
City law firms should be subject to light-touch regulation if a shake-up of the profession is not to inhibit their ability to export legal services around the globe, Clifford Chance has urged. The world’s largest law firm has told Sir David Clementi, the Prudential chairman leading the review of legal regulation, that a new watchdog
TV producer David E. Kelley, an outspoken opponent of “reality” television, has bowed to the genre’s popularity by developing a drama with real lawyers, Daily Variety said in its Wednesday edition. Kelley, who will serve as a consulting producer, will create a law firm whose members will try real civil cases through binding arbitration overseen
