Promoters pay radio stations annual fees for advance copies of playlists and bill record companies for each new song played, running up a tab that costs the industry tens of millions of dollars annually. Financial woes and piracy have caused the labels to cut back on such payments. New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer […]

The trials of seven men on Pitcairn Island, the remote Pacific island home to descendants of HMS Bounty mutineers, were drawing to a close Thursday and judges were expected to deliver their verdicts Monday. The cases against the men — two of whom pleaded guilty — have exposed allegations of widespread sex abuse on the

Now that the lazy days of summer are over, attorneys are on the move. Law school students are busy securing top-paying jobs at local firms, recruiting directors are hunting for new associates and experienced practitioners are surveying their options. In hopes of attracting the best and the brightest from the crop of law students who

Following Piper Rudnick’s agreement to acquire San Diego firm Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, DLA and Piper Rudnick are now due to vote on the ‘second leg’ of a strategy to build a world top-10 law firm. The new Piper Rudnick Gray Cary is a 1300-attorney firm. However the addition of DLA would create a

It was an embarrassing mistake for famed litigator David Boies, one that turned into what the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called “a lawyer’s nightmare.” Monday, an en banc panel decided 8-3 to give Boies a reprieve. The error — a missed filing deadline — was made by a calendaring clerk at Boies, Schiller

Staying with the outside counsel you know is the theme of Corporate Counsel’s third annual Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies survey. While some in-house lawyers say they are eager to break long-standing ties with firms in exchange for outside counsel with more attractive fee arrangements, most GCs stick with the large firms they know and

A close confidante of the Blairs has appointed the Queen’s solicitors to defend herself from being “hounded” over her private life. Martha Greene, 48, who was revealed by The Sunday Times last week to have helped with the purchase of the Blairs’ £3.6m London house, has been pestered with false allegations that she once had

Sullivan & Cromwell looks set to spark a US pay war after moving to pay a one-off ‘special bonus’ of up to $20,000 to all of its associates. The bonuses will be awarded on 21 October and sees the New York leader offer first-year associates a $10,000 one-off bonus, rising to $20,000 for senior associates.

San Diego-based law firm Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich said yesterday it is negotiating a merger that could create one of the world’s largest law firms by the end of the year. Baltimore-based Piper Rudnick, the nation’s 20th largest law firm, is seeking simultaneous mergers with Gray Cary and London-based DLA, deals that would combine

The quality of a journalist’s notetaking took centre stage in a court case yesterday that will determine whether a City firm can proceed with a £230m libel action against the Financial Times. Lawyers acting for Collins Stewart Tullett, which is suing the FT over an article published in August 2003, tried to persuade Tony Tassell