The United States military expressed anger and dismay today over the unauthorized release of photographs of a jailed Saddam Hussein in his underwear and performing menial activity. But President Bush expressed doubt that the episode would further inflame anti-American sentiment in Iraq. “These photos were taken in clear violation of Department of Defense directives and […]

Broadcom Corp., an Irvine semiconductor maker that wants to get into the market for making chips that run cell phones, has filed two lawsuits accusing San Diego’s Qualcomm of infringing on its patents. The lawsuits, filed Wednesday in federal court in Santa Ana, said Qualcomm is infringing on 10 Broadcom patents for such technology as

Morgan Stanley must pay billionaire financier Ron Perelman more than $1.4 billion in damages, awarded by a jury that said it found clear evidence the investment firm acted fraudulently in Perelman’s 1998 sale of his Coleman camping gear company to Sunbeam Corp. The jury deliberated for nearly four hours Wednesday before deciding on $850 million

Hello! magazine today claimed victory in its epic court battle over the wedding pictures of Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas. The Court of Appeal allowed its challenge to a High Court order that it should pay more than £1 million damages and another £1 million in legal costs to rival magazine OK!, which had

After 56 witnesses, hundreds of exhibits, a handful of secretly recorded conversations and countless objections by lawyers on both sides, the final act begins Wednesday in the drama that has dominated this city since late January: the trial of Richard Scrushy, the former CEO of HealthSouth who is accused of masterminding a $2.7 billion accounting

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