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.
Lawyers increasingly are becoming like luxury goods to many would-be clients, an expensive article that they can’t afford or don’t want to make a priority.
Despite the recent high-profile Colombian army rescue last week of politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others held captive by kidnappers for years, some 2,800 others are still being held by…
Prosecutions of Bush administration officials for their conduct of the fight against terrorism are unlikely, said speakers at a panel held today during the World Justice Forum in Vienna.
In the wake of a precedent-setting federal court ruling earlier this week that the IRS can seek the names of Americans holding secret accounts from Swiss-based UBS AG, the agency…
Historically, insider trading of securities hasn’t been enforced nearly as aggressively in Europe as it is in the U.S. But that is changing, as news that the former chief executive…
In a reportedly unprecedented court order, a federal judge in Miami has ordered Swiss-based UBS AG to reveal the names of U.S. residents who have been using secret accounts to…
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