Lawyers representing Michael Jackson have asked the judge in the singer’s child sex abuse case to declare a mistrial. They say they have evidence that witnesses have discussed their testimony outside the courtroom, in violation of court rules. Earlier on Friday, jurors heard for the first time about previous claims of child abuse against the […]

Your phone rings. It’s Special Agent Bert Ranta. The FBI is investigating a crime ring involved in widespread identity theft. It has led to millions of dollars of credit card and loan losses for lenders, and havoc in the lives of the 10,000 victims. By identifying links between the victims, the FBI has discovered where

When Johnson Tan rented a 300-square-metre room for Jones Day’s Beijing office two years ago, he worried the space might be too big. Tan, partner at Jones Day’s Beijing office, had reason to worry, as the company faced numerous uncertainties when it first arrived in Beijing. For example, the city was being ravaged by the

The music business should have stuck by Thomas Edison’s technology if it wanted to avoid the threat of piracy. His wax cylinders could record a performance but could not be reproduced; that became possible only with the invention of the flat-disc record some years later. On Tuesday March 29th, America’s Supreme Court began to hear

Rudolph W. Giuliani’s empire is expanding with a high-profile new venture: Mr. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, is becoming a partner in a politically connected Texas law firm and will open its Manhattan office in May. The Houston law firm, Bracewell & Patterson, employs several prominent Republicans and former members of the Bush

Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., whose fierce, flamboyant and electrifyingly effective advocacy in the O. J. Simpson murder trial captivated the country and solidified his image as a master of high-profile criminal defense, died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 67. The cause was a brain tumor, said a law partner, Peter J.

Prosecutors called Tuesday for the maximum prison sentence for the former chief executive of the Yukos oil company as the highest-profile criminal case in Russia’s post-Soviet history drew to a close. Prosecutor Dmitry Shokhin asked a Moscow court to find Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty on tax evasion and other charges after plowing through evidence in a

Sony Corp. on Monday said it was ordered by a U.S. federal court to halt U.S. sales of its PlayStation game consoles and pay nearly $91 million in patent infringement damages to a California company, although the judge immediately put her ruling on hold. The stay in the case means Sony will not actually have

It was a moment that defense attorney M. Gerald Schwartzbach had been working toward for months. As he began closing arguments in the Robert Blake murder trial, the judge asked the 60-year-old attorney to speak up so she and the court audience could hear. “I will try to keep my voice up,” the bifocaled, bow-tied

Over the last four decades, Warren E. Buffett has built Berkshire Hathaway into one of the world’s largest and most successful insurers. Along the way, he has navigated the stock market with legendary prowess and offered folksy guidelines for proper corporate governance. Now, with investigators on three continents examining Berkshire affiliates and a deadline looming