When the court opened, the defence team for Saddam and his six co-defendants walked out in protest over Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s decision late on Tuesday to fire Chief Judge Abdullah al-Ameri, who some Shia and Kurdish politicians believed was showing leniency to the former President. When Muhammad Oreibi al-Khalifa, Mr Amiri’s replacement, ordered court-appointed […]

A survey by recruitment firm Laurence Simons International found pay for Hong Kong is higher than the UK by as much as US$12,700 at the 2 years’ post qualification experience (PQE) level, and by as much as US$43,400 for individuals with more than 10 years’ PQE. AIG vice president and deputy general counsel Mario Valdes-Lora

Profits per partner hit a record £1,160,000 in one top City law firm, Slaughter and May, while the average profit across all 6,557 partners in the top 100 law firms reached £537,322. Top Five firms in terms of turnover were: Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Freshfields, Allen & Overy and Lovells. The year also saw the arrival

Andrew Nulty, 42, the highest-earning solicitor in Britain in 2005-06, has been ordered to appear before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. Mr Nulty, whose father and grandfather were miners, heads a list of Britain’s top-earning lawyers that was published yesterday by The Lawyer magazine. He is the senior partner of Avalon Solicitors, which has made multimillion-pound

The record partner profits come after Linklaters’ revenues jumped 16 per cent to £935 million in the 2005-06 financial year on the back of a continuing global boom in mergers and acquisitions and private equity-related work. Slaughter and May, the smallest of the five so-called Magic Circle law firms, is Linklaters’ closest rival with 90

The Super Lawyer moniker is the invention of the Minnesota magazine Law & Politics, and it’s become a nationwide sensation, an annual ad supplement that now runs in publications in 31 states and provides the attorneys so designated with a new tool for promoting themselves. But New Jersey has a warning for lawyers who want

The most common first-year associate salary at law firms with more than 500 attorneys climbed to $135,000 in 2006, NALP reported. That figure likely was welcome relief for law graduates, whose salaries at those firms were stagnant at $125,000 from 2000 to 2005. The rise in pay, in large part, represents a competition among law

For quality of life rankings, Vault asked associates to rate their own firms on issues such as treatment by partners, formal training, informal training and mentoring, hours and compensation and then scored the firms against each other. Vault has also surveyed law firm partners from the nation’s most prestigious firms, resulting in the first ever