http://www.abajournal.com/news/ en Copyright 2013 2013-05-22T14:19:25-06:00 http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/successful_tyrannosaurus_suit_by_texas_lawyer_earns_him_mongolias_top_civil/ A victory in civil and criminal litigation over the New York City auction of a smuggled Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton last year hasn't just earned legal fees for Texas attorney Robert Painter. It's taken him to Mongolia, where evidence was collected in the Gobi desert, and from his Houston law office… Civil Procedure, Corporate Law, Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure, International Law, Real Estate & Property Law, Trials & Litigation, Verdicts & Settlements, 2nd Circuit Court, States, Texas Wed, 22 May 2013 09:05:54 -0500 44276.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/is_your_photo_online_are_you_on_facebook_if_so_retailers_can_id_you_an/ Decades ago, George Orwell wrote a famous novel, 1984, that envisioned a then-future world in which "Big Brother"—a totalitarian government—was watching its citizens through a variety of electronic gadgetry and might at any time bark orders at individuals through a loudspeaker or television screen. That world doesn't yet exist, as… Consumer Law, Corporate Law, Government Law, International Law, Privacy Law Mon, 20 May 2013 08:40:46 -0500 44264.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/stunned_by_45m_cyberheist_banks_have_limited_options_for_trying_to_rec/ It isn't just bank customers who can see their funds vanish in a short time, with little or no recourse, when hackers take over their accounts. As a $45 million cyberheist revealed last week illustrates, banks themselves can have much the same problem. Two Middle Eastern banks lost the money… Banking Law, Contracts, Criminal Justice, Cybersecurity, International Law, 2nd Circuit Court, International, Middle East, States, New York Mon, 13 May 2013 11:35:13 -0500 44148.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/jones_day_opens_new_office_in_miami_its_first_in_florida/ Jones Day has opened a new office in Miami, its first in Florida, in a move that is expected to expand its Latin American practice. Bankruptcy partner Pedro A. Jimenez, who is a native of the city. will head the office, which the the 16th in the U.S. and the… International Law, Law Firms, Large Firm, Partners, Central America, International, South America, States, Florida Thu, 09 May 2013 11:05:39 -0500 44105.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/australias_publicly_traded_slater_gordon_raising_64m_to_buy_more_uk_persona/ In its continuing drive to dominate the global personal injury and consumer legal market, Slater & Gordon is raising $63.9 million to expand its British personal injury practice. The plaintiff megafirm has struck deals to buy three United Kingdom law firms at a total cost of about $35 million, according… Consumer Law, International Law, Law Firms, Large Firm, Tort Law, International, Australia Tue, 07 May 2013 13:15:31 -0500 44071.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/with_1b_fee_unpaid_plaintiff_lawyer_in_18b_enviro_case_is_now_pro_se_agains/ Attorney Steven Donziger could earn $1 billion, his opposing counsel says, if an $18 billion foreign judgment against Chevron Corp. concerning environmental damage in Ecuador is upheld. Meanwhile, Donziger is unable to afford to pay his own counsel as Chevron continues with a bruising U.S. district court counterattack against the… Appellate Practice, Corporate Law, Environmental Law, International Law, Tort Law, Trials & Litigation, Attorney Fees, Evidence, Verdicts & Settlements, 2nd Circuit Court, International Courts/Tribunals, International, South America, States, New York Mon, 06 May 2013 15:15:43 -0500 44049.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/guilty_plea_ends_record_38m_legal_fraud_case_that_doubled_assessments/ After nearly five years of legal battle, a former real estate developer pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud in a Vancouver, B.C., court Friday, putting an end to a record $38.4 million Canadian lawyer-fraud case that doubled the client-compensation assessment payments for attorneys in the Criminal Justice, Sentencing/Post Conviction, White Collar Crime, International Law, Trials & Litigation, Verdicts & Settlements, International Courts/Tribunals, International, North America, Canada Mon, 06 May 2013 13:35:31 -0500 44046.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/obama_is_using_drone_strikes_to_replace_gitmo_detentions_says_ex-bush_admin/ A former Bush administration lawyer claims President Barack Obama is relying on drone strikes to kill terrorists because he doesn’t want to capture them and send them to Guantanamo Bay. Lawyer John Bellinger made the accusation at a conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday discussing the legality of drone killings,… Executive Branch, International Law, Terrorism, Guantanamo/Detainees Mon, 06 May 2013 06:00:53 -0500 44027.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/law_grads_espionage_indictment_revealed_treaty_thwarts_extradition/ A newly unsealed 2004 indictment accuses a Georgetown law grad of conspiracy to commit espionage by recruiting a woman to spy for the Cuban Intelligence Service. Marta Rita Velazquez, 55, remains free in Sweden, report Reuters, the Washington Post and a press… Criminal Justice, International Law Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:17:22 -0500 43932.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/human_rights_groups_condemn_supreme_court_decision_tossing_alien_tort_suit_/ The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against a group of Nigerians living in the United States who sought to hold oil companies accountable for alleged human rights violations in Nigeria through a lawsuit in U.S. courts. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion (PDF) upholding… Civil Procedure, International Law, Tort Law, U.S. Supreme Court Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:02:59 -0500 43775.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/53_dead_in_suicide_attack_on_afghanistan_court_in_effort_to_free_10_taliban/ At least 53 people died Wednesday in an attack by suicide bombers on a court in Western Afghanistan. They reportedly sought to free 15 suspected members of the Taliban who were headed to trial in the Farah courthouse, according to Al Jazeera and the Constitutional Law, Criminal Justice, International Law, Judiciary, Court Security, Trials & Litigation, International Courts/Tribunals, International, Asia Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:15:33 -0500 43548.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/slavery_continues_to_haunt_the_modern_world/ Bar Associations, ABA, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure, Executive Branch, Government Law, Immigration Law, International Law, Labor & Employment, Legal Ethics, Legislation & Lobbying, Trials & Litigation, Features Mon, 01 Apr 2013 05:00:31 -0500 43209.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/online_activities_are_still_in_the_wild_west_of_regulation/ Entertainment & Sports Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Law, Internet Law, Legal Theory, Media & Communications Law, Privacy Law, Science & Technology Law, Trials & Litigation, International Courts/Tribunals, Business of Law Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:40:29 -0500 43299.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/arab_spring_brings_no_thaw_for_womens_rights/ Bar Associations, ABA, Midyear Meeting, Civil Rights, International Law, International Courts/Tribunals, Your ABA Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:10:29 -0500 43308.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/doc_charged_in_7_murders_may_have_slain_300_to_free_up_hospital_beds_invest/ A doctor has been charged in what authorities are calling seven murders of terminally ill patients at a hospital in Brazil and could be responsible for as many as 300 deaths, an investigator says. Dr. Virginia Soares de Souza is charged with seven counts of aggravated first-degree murder. She is… Criminal Justice, Health Law, International Law, International Courts/Tribunals, International, South America Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:40:49 -0500 43475.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/students_protest_would-be_law_schools_relationship_policy/ A Canadian university's plan to establish a law school has drawn fire from students at other institutions. They contend that the covenant at Trinity Western University, which requires students at the private Christian school to abstain from “sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a… Civil Rights, International Law, Law Schools, Law Students, International, North America, Canada Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:48:48 -0500 43389.abajournal.com