It has been decades since Tony Blair had his day in court. That expertise could prove invaluable, particularly as there is only one precedent for a serving prime minister appearing in public before a judicial inquiry. John Major, the former Tory prime minister, gave evidence at the Scott Inquiry into the arms-to-Iraq scandal and was […]

In an initiative to be rolled out across Allen + Overy, all associates and partners will be set personal hourly plans for the first time. A&O’s associate chargeable hour targets – between 1,600 and 1,700 hours – are not the highest in the City, but A&O has fuelled disquiet among its associates by setting new

The lawsuit, filed by Mylan Pharmaceuticals on 8 August, arose as a result of an antitrust case that Clifford Chance’s US office had acted on since 1999 and which settled last year. Mylan is claiming that the firm acted wrongly on the settlement and the $19m (£11.8m) fee was too high. Mylan is claiming damages,

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