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 […]

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

Maori Treaty lawyer Donna Hall’s credibility and income is at stake as she slugs it out with outraged tribal clients, the Waitangi Tribunal and the law society. Ms Hall, the wife of High Court judge and former Waitangi Tribunal chairman Justice Eddie Durie, has been dumped from her lucrative role as lead lawyer running the

Therese Stewart didn’t set out to be a partner at a law firm. Academics or public interest, that seemed more her style when she graduated from University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law in 1981. But she liked working at the intellectually oriented Howard Rice and “fell in love with trial practice,” she

Eliot Spitzer’s political future seems to grow brighter every day. The New York attorney general has earned a rep as a tough regulator of white-collar fraud with his crackdown on Wall Street stock research and mutual funds. Many political pros say he’s a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination for governor of New York in 2006,

The first trial of Enron executives is set to begin in 10 days, and a judge said Thursday he expects to be able to pick a fair jury in Houston. U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein told the lawyers for two former Enron executives and four former Merrill Lynch executives accused of fraud in the sale

A leading barrister stopped representing his client in the middle of a fraud trial after his daily rate was reduced to £600 when the man ran out of funds and had to take legal aid. Alun Jones, a Queen’s Counsel who had already earned more than £250,000 from the fraud case, pulled out when his

Mr. Cox, a former solicitor general of the United States, was an expert on labor law and the author of several books on legal matters. He often took leaves from the faculty of Harvard Law School to serve in federal government posts. In 1980 he became chairman of Common Cause, the public affairs lobby, and