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

W. John Brennan, 57, chief judge of state district court in Albuquerque, appeared to be “extremely intoxicated” when he was pulled over just after midnight, police spokesman Trish Ahrensfield said. Officers also found what they believed to be cocaine in his vehicle, she said. Ahrensfield said officers stopped Brennan after he tried to avoid a

In the American justice system, trial by a jury of one’s peers is a constitutional right having iconic significance. But two recent white-collar criminal trials in New York have cast doubt on the integrity of jury verdicts. Martha Stewart was convicted of lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission about a questionable stock trade and

Hammonds’ average profits per partner have slumped 18 per cent from £330,000 to £272,000. Turnover for 2003-2004 is down 1 per cent to £136m, which includes a £7.1m loss of revenue due to the departure of the entire commercial insurance team at the beginning of the last financial year. Senior partner Richard Burns said: “We

A trial in the case could start as soon as September 13, the date that Judge Rodney Melville set during a hearing in Santa Maria on Friday. During the court proceedings, Jackson’s lead attorney, Thomas Meserau, said Michael Jackson’s $3 million bail amount is excessive. However, prosecutors argue $3 million is a fraction of Jackson’s

Trevor Kennedy’s relationship with disgraced stockbroker Rene Rivkin has cast his name in infamy. Rivkin’s assertion in an interview with a Swiss district attorney that Kennedy held part of a mystery parcel of shares in the controversial Offset Alpine has jeopardised everything. In the public imagination, Kennedy is inextricably linked to Rivkin’s calamitous and bizarre