Citing the case of a 15-year-old (Omar Khadr) who has been jailed there for six years without trial, a U.K. newspaper has included Camp Delta at the U.S. military detention…
O’Melveny & Myers bills its London office as a “rapidly expanding team” of more than 40 lawyers. However, a British legal publication says O’Melveny’s office there…
A Justice Department letter sent to Congress last month suggests the Central Intelligence Agency may use interrogation methods possibly barred by the Geneva Conventions to prevent a terrorist attack.
Although last year was particularly profitable for many major London law firms, corresponding raises for associate-level attorneys aren’t on the radar screen.
An across-the-board pay cut estimated at about 10 to 15 percent for all nine partners at Shearman & Sterling’s outpost in Mannheim, Germany, is reportedly what prompted the 30-lawyer office’s…
Americans aren’t the only ones eagerly awaiting the Internal Revenue Service tax rebates expected to be in the mail to many U.S. residents by the end of May. A growing…
Murat Kurnaz is a German man who spent five years in the custody of the U.S. and its allies and is still considered an enemy combatant even now that he…
A midsize Los Angeles-based law firm is opening its first European office and stealing a top partner from not one but, effectively, two major competitors in the process.
Kidnappings for ransom are reportedly way up in Mexico, and even spilling into nearby U.S. areas, as gangs try to avoid greatly increased anti-drug trafficking enforcement there and obtain more…
The seven-year itch has apparently struck the Mannheim, Germany, office of Shearman & Sterling. The 30-lawyer outpost has reportedly dissolved its 2000 merger with the New York firm, and will…
An evangelical pastor and hunting enthusiast has been sentenced to three years in a Russian prison for illegally bringing a box of ammunition to the country.
The very first time that the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra tried to rehearse “State of Siege” in London, it was clear that they were violating European labor and employment law.
Updated: Dozens of Pakistan appellate judges removed from office in November by the country’s president could now be restored to their former seats by the end of April.
They attend one of the world’s most renowned institutions of higher learning. But even after students learned that proctors at Oxford University are logging onto Facebook Apr 18, 2008 11:16 PM CDT
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