A lawyer working for an oil-equipment company shot to death a fellow attorney while the two were sitting at a desk Thursday morning, then killed himself, police said. The victim, shot in the head, was a patent lawyer with Cooper Cameron oil services. The men’s names were not immediately released. Police said they were in […]
After a morning of listening to the prosecution and defense wrangle, Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville today denied defense efforts to end the Michael Jackson trial. Melville rejected a defense motion to acquit Jackson on all charges and earlier denied the defense’s fifth request for a mistrial. The judge then ordered the bailiff to
A military judge Wednesday threw out Pfc. Lynndie England’s guilty plea to prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, saying that he was not convinced that she knew that her actions were wrong at the time. Col. James Pohl entered a plea of not guilty for England to a charge of conspiring with Pvt. Charles Graner Jr.
A secretary has won a nine-year legal battle against the Government in a case that will have far-reaching consequences for thousands of women. Michelle Alabaster began legal proceedings after claiming that her former employer broke European sex discrimination law by underpaying her during maternity leave. Spanning nearly a decade, the case passed from an employment
A majority of partners of Holland & Knight support the law firm’s managing partner, despite his promotion several weeks ago of an attorney disciplined for sexual harassment, said a Holland & Knight spokeswoman. Also, the continued coverage of the issue by the media, while disruptive, isn’t having much effect on the 1,250-lawyer firm, said Martha
“There is a legitimate question, if it is corrupt competition,” says UCLA law professor Lynn LoPucki. His recently released book makes the same controversial assertion, and that has the bankruptcy bar steamed. It has become so common for big corporations to file bankruptcy reorganization cases in either Delaware or New York, no matter where the
More college graduates are applying to law school, according to the Law School Admission Council, which administers the LSAT exam. Law school applications have risen steadily over the past few years, reaching a record 99,504 applicants last year, up 9.5% from 2002, it said. The growing number suggests more people are interested in careers in
A leading City law firm has challenged its rivals to donate hundreds of thousands of pounds that they earn as interest on client accounts to cash-strapped legal aid centres. Allen & Overy, one of the “magic circle” of top five firms, is to give voluntary legal agencies all the extra interest retained from clients’ cash
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether the government can withhold federal funds from colleges that bar military recruiters, wading into a dispute over campus free speech rights. The justices will review in their next term beginning in October a ruling allowing law schools to restrict recruiters as a way of protesting the
The potential postponement this week of the first trial against Merck over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx could be unfavourable for the US drugmaker, as plaintiffs’ attorneys push a stronger case. An Alabama state judge is scheduled to hold a hearing on Tuesday on whether to postpone the trial originally scheduled for May 23. Both Merck
