He was supposed to arrange a plea bargain. Instead, Navy Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift ended up fighting his commander in chief at the U.S. Supreme Court. Swift, the military lawyer for Guantanamo Bay inmate Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s former driver, is asking the high court to block President George W. Bush’s plan to […]
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First-rate civil rights attorney, currently lead counsel in a class action accusing Wal-Mart of gender discrimination, the largest civil rights class action in U.S. history when certified in 2004; litigating a narrower glass-ceiling gender discrimination case against Wal-Mart competitor Costco Wholesale Corp.; negotiated large settlements with companies such as State Farm and Lucky Stores. For
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Any lawyer who has been profiled under the headline ‘Is this the most influencial man in Britain?’ (‘Sunday Telegraph’, 12 March 2000) has to have at least some influence in the UK legal landscape and Michael Beloff has. As a sports, public law and commercial law advocate and lecturer, Beloff has held significant judicial, tribunal
