Jerome Kerviel says he used his manager’s computer at least one occasion as he racked up more than $7 billion in losses for French bank Société Générale.
Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of famed rock-and-roll singer Elvis Presley, has sued a British newspaper, contending that her privacy was invaded when it falsely claimed that she was fat.
Weighing in on an issue that has created concern among lawyers, journalists and human rights advocates, among others, the American Bar Association has filed a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief…
In a case that could prevent the U.K. gene police from continuing with an ambitious program to collect DNA samples from as many citizens as possible, two arrestees who were…
Liechtenstein is a small country the size of Washington, D.C., wedged between Austria and Switzerland. But it has been big news recently as a growing number of countries focus on…
Updated: An executive arm of the European Union has fined Microsoft Corp. a record $1.35 billion for failing to cooperate with a 2004 antitrust decision. It required the company to…
A nonprofit conservation trust for invertebrates was to appear in High Court in the United Kingdom today, to argue that a rare teddy-bear-like spider has a right to life under…
An Algerian pilot falsely accused of helping train the terrorists who flew commercial airliners into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001 says he wept with…
Another person is being held for questioning in connection with the $7 billion-plus rogue trading scandal at Société Générale, potentially contradicting the bank’s earlier explanation that the initial suspect, Jerome…
Updated: The Archbishop of Canterbury is front-page news throughout the United Kingdom today, facing a firestorm of criticism even from his own bishops following his reported call for Britain, at…
A day after CIA director Michael Hayden admitted in testimony before Congress that the Bush administration had used the so-called waterboarding technique on three al-Qaida suspects, a White House spokesman…
In a discovery that has fanned fears that British inmates’ phone calls to their attorneys are routinely bugged, a lawyer in the U.K. reportedly has received transcripts of secretly recorded…
Jerome Kerviel’s career in the securities industry appears to be at an end after the stunning news late last month that the junior trader allegedly cost one of France’s biggest…
Once a record rogue trader fraud of $7 billion is announced by a major bank, a high-profile new representation is clearly on the horizon for some lucky law firm.
Updated: British bar groups are calling for the release and reinstatement of judges and lawyers who remain imprisoned in Pakistan after President Pervez Musharraf’s Nov. 3 suspension of the constitution…
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