The family suing Walt Disney Co. in a decade-old case over marketing rights to children’s book character Winnie the Pooh has hired a new team of attorneys, including a former state appeals court judge, it said in a statement on Friday. Stephen Slesinger Inc., the corporation that represents the Slesinger family’s interests, said it had […]

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found “Female employees were subjected to disparate treatment in compensation, terms, conditions and privileges of employment,” said Spencer Lewis Jr., New York district director of the EEOC, in an opinion dated Thursday and made public Monday. Lewis also found that Boies, Schiller & Flexner maintained a two-tier system of compensation

Common Good, a new body led by Covington vice-chairman Philip Howard, is aiming to kill off the claim culture in the US. Howard, who also happens to be vice-chairman of US law firm Covington & Burling, relates how the child of one of his colleagues recently returned from summer camp with bad sunburn. “All the

The gathering of legal big hitters present when Lord Hutton’s inquiry team begins questioning witnesses at 10.30am today also includes the barrister who represented Naomi Campbell in her legal action against the Daily Mirror last year. Andrew Caldecott QC, a leading media barrister who represented investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre in his successful libel action against

Much of the general public’s experience with law firm advertising stems from TV and phone book ads for personal injury, workers’ compensation and immigration attorneys. But what Bay Area corporate firms are doing involves slick brochures that are delivered to clients or potential clients. Or, the pieces appear in legal newspapers and magazines that circulate

When Stephen C. Richards, a criminology professor, steps up to the rostrum on the first day of his sociology of corrections classes at Northern Kentucky University, he usually begins his lecture with a confession and a promise. “I’m an ex-con,” Mr. Richards, who served nine years in federal prison for selling marijuana, tells his students.

When Joseph Connor was offered a job as a cook at a McDonald’s here, he finally seemed to have found a way to help support his five children. But along came a snag. The McDonald’s manager told Mr. Connor, who is 6-foot-1 and weighs nearly 420 pounds, that he could start work as soon as

Schwarzenegger, 56, made his announcementsurprise announcement–a surprise given that his spin doctors were spinning that he wasn’t going to declare–during a taping of NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno, to air Wednesday night. California voters are scheduled to go to the polls October 7 to decide whether Governor Gray Davis should finish out his second

In Indonesia’s latest bombing incident, at the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, accusatory fingers are once again pointed at Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the terror network allegedly linked to al-Qaeda. The trail pointed to JI even before the smoke from the rubble had settled. This is because in past weeks Indonesian police have arrested suspected JI members.

Bush, who as governor of Texas made tort reform a primary objective, has encountered nothing but roadblocks in his campaign on the federal level. His most recent setback came last month when Senate Democrats prevailed in a filibuster over a proposal to cap punitive damages in medical malpractices cases at $250,000 or twice the amount