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…
In the wake of a series of revelations concerning secret accounts at UBS AG and other foreign banks, new rules are about to be released by the Internal Revenue Service…
In a 2,455-page indictment submitted to a Turkish court today, the government has charged 86 alleged members of a militant secular group with plotting to overthrow the country’s Islamist government.
In a case that is expected to be watched with considerable interest not only by United Kingdom law firms but by other employers with mandatory retirement policies, a British solicitor…
In an effort to control increasingly violent conflict between Mexican authorities and the drug traffickers on whom the country’s president has declared war, the government is planning to double the…
From his office at Butzel Long’s Detroit headquarters, lawyer Richard Rassel can watch the massive 18-wheel trucks driving across the Ambassador Bridge from Michigan into Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
There has been a massive decrease in deals being handled by London’s elite magic circle law firms this year compared to the first half of 2007, but at least some…
A United Kingdom child sexual abuse case being pursued against a substitute schoolteacher who worked for 14 years as a counselor at a prestigious summer camp in Maine has exposed…
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.
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