Two citizens of the United Kingdom who allegedly were caught having sex this summer on a beach in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, got a light sentence by local standards—three months…
The law school at the University of Utah has been awarded a $2.5 million one-year grant from the U.S. State Department to help forge an independent judiciary in Iraq, the…
Fearing that Saddam Hussein would not receive a death sentence at his trial, Iraq’s prime minister forced one of five judges presiding in his case to resign only days before…
Thousands of Pakistani lawyers blocked roads in several cities today to protest the country’s failure to reinstate most of the judges removed from office by former President Pervez Musharraf.
Once upon a time, the possibility of a malpractice suit being filed against them was pretty much the only risk that law firms had to worry about, and, since lawyers…
Within weeks, Latham & Watkins is expected to open not just one new office in the Middle East, but three, spurred by what it says were client requests to do…
It was a great Independence Day gift. On July 3, Judge Radhi Hamza al-Radhi, “the Eliot Ness of Iraq,” learned that the Department of Homeland Security had granted him asylum.
Just days after the chief judge of one of Baghdad’s two appeals courts was assassinated as he was driving home, five more judges in the same Iraq appeals court escaped…
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