The poetic setting for Lloyd Cutler’s memorial service would have been a courtroom. Or maybe the Oval Office. Possibly a classroom. But the number of people who loved and respected the consummate lawyer number in the thousands, so the law firm he founded rented out Constitution Hall yesterday. Family, friends and colleagues — hundreds from […]

Now Morgan Stanley has another fight on its hands, and it all comes down to its failure to settle when it could have–or still might. Morgan Stanley said it’s appealing Monday’s $604 million jury verdict in a case brought by billionaire Ron Perelman, who claimed Morgan Stanley misled him in 1998 when he was selling

More than two years after Brobeck Phleger & Harrison LLP dissolved, ousted chairman Tower Snow has broken his silence over the firm’s spectacular demise. Some observers blamed Snow for Brobeck’s dissolution and bankruptcy in 2003. Among other things, critics said his 2002 defection — along with 16 other partners — to rival firm Clifford Chance

Though few U.S. law firms stock vegemite or serve flat white coffee in their cafeterias, they have embraced Australian lawyers in almost every other way. They may soon embrace many more. On Wednesday, Congress passed legislation approving a separate visa category for Australian professionals. The E-3 visa program provides the country with 10,500 slots annually,

Michael Jackson’s former attorney said Friday that, long before a family had accused the star of child molestation and false imprisonment, he viewed their relationship with Jackson as a “pending disaster” and suspected they were after his client’s money. “I thought they were going to shake him down,” attorney Mark Geragos testified as Jackson’s defense

Russia’s state oil company won a claim for 62.4 billion rubles ($2.2 billion) from OAO Yukos Oil Co., raising the prospect the government will seize the last oil fields of what was once the country’s biggest crude exporter. OAO Rosneft won its victory today in the Moscow Arbitration Court came as prosecutors said they will

The judge in the Michael Jackson trial Thursday ordered celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos to testify Friday as subpoenaed by his former client’s defense team. Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville flatly rejected a request to delay the lawyer’s appearance because of a scheduling conflict. Geragos represented Jackson after his arrest on child molestation

The promise of $3 billion in state funding for biotechnology research in California has more than one law firm in the area salivating — especially now that San Francisco has been picked to host the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is the first law firm to stop gawking and start acting

When the founders of King & Wood — now the largest law firm in the People’s Republic of China — chose that name 11 years ago, it wasn’t about ego. “Actually, we do not have a Mr. King and a Mr. Wood,” says Wei Zhang, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based partner in the firm. Instead, the

Plans to cut the amount of money spent on legal aid and stop criminal trials over-running in England and Wales are to be unveiled by the Lord Chancellor. Under the proposals, lawyers would bid for legal aid contracts and they would have to foot the bill if a criminal case lasted longer than expected. Since