http://www.abajournal.com/news/ en Copyright 2013 2013-06-19T00:33:12-06:00 http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/ex-judge_faces_case_over_speeding-ticket_switch_that_put_lawmaker_and_wife_/ A 10-year-old speeding ticket continues to make trouble for high-profile individuals in the United Kingdom. The latest target of criminal charges is a former judge, Constance Briscoe. The well-known barrister is facing two counts of intending to pervert the course of public justice. She is accused of providing inaccurate information… Criminal Justice, White Collar Crime, International Law, International Courts/Tribunals, International, Europe, United Kingdom Fri, 14 Jun 2013 06:45:41 -0500 44635.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/bvideo_european_mas_could_rise_despite_risks_unstable_economy/ Prospects for M&A activity in Europe are slowly beginning to improve, according to what Guy Norman, acting global head of mergers and acquisitions at Clifford Chance, tells Bloomberg's Sarah Kopit. Citing a recent Clifford Chance survey, Norman says that… ABA Journal, Business of Law (Video), ABA Journal Production, Weekly Newsletter Stories, Corporate Law, International Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, International, Europe Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:15:49 -0500 44633.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/defendant_said_he_shot_lawyer_to_death_because_he_made_our_lives_a_misery_p/ A failed businessman who blamed a country lawyer for the loss of his home and his girlfriend is being tried for the murder in the slaying of attorney James Ward, 58, who was fatally shot at his MGW Law office last year. He died three weeks later of head injuries.… Criminal Justice, International Law, Trials & Litigation, International Courts/Tribunals, International, Europe, United Kingdom Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:30:29 -0500 44497.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/boies_schiller_to_open_london_office_its_first_outside_the_u.s/ Boies, Schiller & Flexner is planning to open a London office, which will be its first outside the United States, in the near future. The 258-lawyer, New York-based litigation powerhouse currently represents banking giant Barclays, among other London-based clients, and has confirmed that it plans to open a London office,… Banking Law, Business of Law, International Law, Law Firms, Large Firm, International, Europe, United Kingdom, States, New York Thu, 30 May 2013 11:35:32 -0500 44404.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyer_is_among_33_people_arrested_over_52m_diamond_heist_at_brussels_airpo/ Updated: A lawyer is reportedly among 33 suspects, aged 30 to 50, arrested in three countries within the past day or so over their alleged conduct related to a daring 3-minute raid at a Belgian airport earlier this year. Diamonds worth some $50 million were stolen. Eight suspects were detained… Criminal Justice, International Law, Trials & Litigation, Evidence, International Courts/Tribunals, International, Europe Wed, 08 May 2013 13:15:27 -0500 44091.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/bankruptcy_co-chairs_leap_from_cadwalader_to_omelveny_along_with_another_pa/ Three bankruptcy partners from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, including the co-chairs of the practice group, are headed to O'Melveny & Myers. In a Tuesday announcement, O'Melveny said that co-chairs John J. Rapisarsdi and George A. Davis would serve in the same role at their new firm, working out… Bankruptcy Law, Law Firms, Large Firm, Partners, International, Europe, United Kingdom, States, New York, Washington Tue, 07 May 2013 15:29:39 -0500 44076.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/wicked_and_selfish_mom_pushed_teen_daughter_to_get_pregnant_so_she_could_ra/ Thwarted when she tried, as a single mother, to adopt a fourth child, a "domineering" American woman living in Great Britain tried another approach. She used her influence on her then-14-year-old daughter to persuade the teen to get pregnant and provide the baby she wanted, so she could raise it… Criminal Justice, Sentencing/Post Conviction, Family Law, International Law, Trials & Litigation, Verdicts & Settlements, International Courts/Tribunals, International, Europe, United Kingdom Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:24:07 -0500 43958.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/picking_up_stones_on_beach_gets_american_tourist_criminally_prosecuted/ In the latest example of the pitfalls that can potentially await a foreign tourist unfamiliar with the laws of the land he or she is visiting, an American tourist who says he indulged his hobby of pocketing stones on the beach while traveling with his wife in Turkey is now… Criminal Justice, International Law, Trials & Litigation, Evidence, International Courts/Tribunals, International, Europe Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:22:00 -0500 43784.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/would_double_jeopardy_claim_bar_amanda_knoxs_extradition/ The retrial of Amanda Knox by an Italian appeals court could lead to difficult questions about the meaning of double jeopardy if she is found guilty in the new hearing. Knox was found guilty of murder in the death of her British roommate by an Italian trial court in 2009,… Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure, International Law, Trials & Litigation, International, Europe Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:57:18 -0500 43466.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/amanda_knox_must_be_retried_italian_supreme_court_rules/ Italy’s highest court has ordered a retrial of Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito in the 2007 murder of Knox's roommate. The ruling overturns an appellate acquittal of the pair. The decision on Tuesday “was greeted by a shocked silence in the courtroom,” the Criminal Justice, International, Europe Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:55:54 -0500 43432.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/white_case_opens_madrid_office_with_team_of_latham_lawyers/ The Latham & Watkins lawyer in charge of the firm's corporate work in Spain has led a team to White & Case. Juan Manuel De Remedios, who will serve as executive partner in Madrid for his new firm, is a capital markets and mergers and acquisitions specialist licensed to practice… Corporate Law, International Law, Law Firms, Large Firm, Partners, International, Europe Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:21:37 -0500 43356.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/renowned_trial_lawyer_found_dead_in_what_authorities_say_was_a_suicide/ One of Europe's most powerful and successful lawyers has been found dead in what is being reported an apparent suicide, on the shoreline of the private island he purchased in the Brittany region of France, along with a home, for 10 million Euros several years ago. Olivier Metzner, 63, was… Careers, Obituaries, International Law, International, Europe Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:41:59 -0500 43326.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/did_shark_wrestler_abuse_sick_leave_fired_worker_says_doctor_told_him_to_ta/ Hailed as a hero for wrestling a 6-foot shark away from children wading on an Australian beach, a 62-year-old British man is now without a job. After seeing footage of the incident on the Internet, his employer, a Welsh charity, fired him, saying in a letter to Paul Marshallsea that… Labor & Employment, International, Europe, United Kingdom Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:54:32 -0500 43245.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/250_lawyers_and_staffers_told_to_clear_desks_and_go_home_as_regulators_inte/ Some 250 lawyers and staff were told to clear their desks Monday and go home as regulators "intervened" in the operation of a British law firm. The Solicitors Regulation Authority said it acted at Blakemores Solicitors, which has offices in Birmingham and Leamington, to protect the interests of the firm's… Bar Associations, Business of Law, Careers, Layoffs, Consumer Law, Law Firms, Midsize Firm, International, Europe, United Kingdom Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:46:52 -0500 43227.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawmakers_ex-wife_who_blew_whistle_on_2003_speeding_ticket_switch_also_face/ Both a leading former U.K. lawmaker and his ex-spouse are now looking at likely jail time over a 2003 speeding ticket, after Vicky Pryce was convicted by a London jury this week of perverting the course of justice. Pryce, who is a prominent economist, appeared shocked by the verdict in… Criminal Justice, International Law, Trials & Litigation, Evidence, Verdicts & Settlements, International Courts/Tribunals, International, Europe, United Kingdom Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:59:47 -0600 43166.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/mistrial_re_lawmakers_wife_who_says_she_took_rap_for_hubbys_speeding_ticket/ A London judge blasted a jury after a mistrial this week in the latest chapter of a 10-year-old speeding ticket saga that has mesmerized newswatchers in the United Kingdom. Initially, the wife of the British lawmaker who received the ticket took the blame. But, after former energy minister Chris Huhne… Criminal Justice, International Law, Trials & Litigation, Attorney Fees, Evidence, Verdicts & Settlements, International Courts/Tribunals, International, Europe, United Kingdom Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:09:56 -0600 42960.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/claimed_bank_loan_for_540k_dewey_capital_payment_a_fabrication_says_dewey/ Sued in the United Kingdom for allegedly defaulting on a Barclays Bank loan to finance his $540,000 capital contribution to Dewey & LeBoeuf, a former partner of the now-bankrupt law firm has fired back by filing a federal lawsuit in New York. In it, Londell McMillan, who was in charge… Banking Law, Careers, Lawyer Pay, Contracts, Law Firms, Partners, Tort Law, Trials & Litigation, 2nd Circuit Court, International Courts/Tribunals, International, Europe, United Kingdom, States, New York Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:57:18 -0600 42926.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/a_lawyers_lies_about_her_age_prove_to_be_her_undoing/ A suspicious clerk at a London law firm didn’t think it was possible that lawyer Soma Sengupta was only 29 years old, the age listed in her application file. The clerk was correct; Sengupta was in her late 40s at the time. The clerk’s discovery led to an investigation and… Criminal Justice, Legal Ethics, International, Europe, United Kingdom, States, New York Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:09:20 -0600 42866.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/winter_of_discontent_for_2_cities_vying_to_claim_newly_found_skeleton_of/ Slain more than 500 years ago on a British battlefield, King Richard III was recently determined to have been unceremoniously buried in nearby Leicester without a coffin. Now that his bones have been identified after being excavated from beneath a parking lot, two cities are vying to claim possession of… International Law, Real Estate & Property Law, International, Europe, United Kingdom Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:55:38 -0600 42729.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/ukrainian_lawyer_arrested_for_clients_alleged_crime_and_jailed/ A 31-year-old Ukranian lawyer who was arrested and jailed two years ago when he went to the Kiev police station to visit a client accused of car theft has become a focal point in a growing controversy over the oppressive power of prosecutors fueled by a lack of judicial independence,… Criminal Justice, Prosecutors, International, Europe Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:50:27 -0600 42743.abajournal.com