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
A top fund-raiser for failed Republican gubernatorial nominee Jim Ryan who later was reappointed to key state posts by Gov. Blagojevich, was rousted out of bed early Monday by FBI agents and hauled into court on fraud charges alleging kickbacks, influence-peddling and insider dealing. All told, Stuart P. Levine, 59, abused his positions on the
The two former directors of the Walt Disney Company never much liked Robert A. Iger, Michael D. Eisner’s choice as his successor, and now they are going after the company and members of the board of directors for choosing Mr. Iger as the next chief executive. Robert A. Iger will assume the duties of chief
The attorney who successfully argued the Blakely and Crawford cases in debut appearances before the Supreme Court. The youngest dean in Columbia Law School history. The first woman to become attorney general of Illinois. These attorneys and others, who’ve made partner, overseen multibillion-dollar mergers and coordinated cases on multiple continents, all before age 40, are
At Mallesons Stephen Jaques, chief executive partner Robert Milliner says: “Our hours have been reduced for some categories in response to feedback and our targets haven’t changed.” The firm has a target of 1500 hours a year. Milliner continues: “While I know that in London and New York lawyers can be expected to do 2000
Tony Blair’s government has been accused of committing war crimes in Iraq in a complaint by the families of dead British soldiers to the International Criminal Court. The group of 10 bereaved families claims that British troops were unlawfully ordered to use cluster bombs near civilian areas and to destroy essential power supplies which affected
