Law Firms

When Abbott Laboratories planned the recent spinoff of its hospital products division, the company had the daunting task of setting up legal entities in more than 40 countries. To help accomplish the task, Abbott turned to Baker & McKenzie, a law firm based in Chicago that is the world’s largest, with more than 3,200 lawyers […]

San Diego-based law firm Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich said yesterday it is negotiating a merger that could create one of the world’s largest law firms by the end of the year. Baltimore-based Piper Rudnick, the nation’s 20th largest law firm, is seeking simultaneous mergers with Gray Cary and London-based DLA, deals that would combine

Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) has raided Shaw Pittman’s London office by taking its three remaining partners including outsourcing star Alistair Maughan. Shaw Pittman’s London managing partner Maughan is joining MoFo together with outsourcing and technology partners David Skinner and Andrew Smith. MoFo has added an excellent outsourcing team to its burgeoning London office following up

It may be called Camp Cupcake but in the two-and-half months Martha Stewart has been in the federal women’s prison camp in Alderson, West Virginia, she’s found a few things to complain about. Stewart, the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, has been incarcerated in the prison since early October after being sentenced to 10

Some of Enron Corp’s former directors have agreed to a $168 million settlement of a shareholder lawsuit over the collapse of the energy trading company, the lead plaintiff in the case says. The directors will pay more than $13 million of their own money, while insurance proceeds will cover the remaining $155 million, according to

With the opening of his long-awaited trial just a day away, Michael Jackson yesterday released a video statement rebutting the child molestation charges against him and condemning court transcript leaks outlining the prosecution case. “In the last few weeks, a large amount of ugly, malicious information has been released into the media about me,” the

Lists of possible witnesses were read to the pool of potential jurors in the Michael Jackson child molestation case Monday — including basketball star Kobe Bryant, actress Elizabeth Taylor and family members of Jackson’s accuser as potential defense witnesses. Jackson attorney Thomas Mesereau read more than 100 names, including “60 Minutes” correspondent Ed Bradley, singer

Jurors in Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial will be allowed to hear evidence that the accuser’s mother had made allegations of improper touching against store security guards, a judge ruled Friday. Attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. made the allegations during motions on whether evidence could be admitted about the family’s lawsuit against J.C. Penney. The family

At least he was spared the indignity of wearing an electronic belt designed to stun wearers if they try to flee. OJ was forced to wear one when he accompanied jurors on a field trip to the scene of his former wife’s murder. Michael Jackson did not need one: he never left the courtroom. His

An attempt by computer hackers to steal £220m in one of the world’s biggest bank robberies has been foiled by British detectives. A high-technology crime gang planned to transfer millions of pounds from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui into 10 bank accounts around the world. But before they could download any