105 ABA Journal South America articles.
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…
Mar 28, 2013 6:40 PM CDT
Authorities investigating a Sunday nightclub fire that killed more than 230 people in southern Brazil have detained four individuals for questioning—two owners, a member of the Gurizada Fandangueira band and…
Jan 28, 2013 7:15 PM CST
Baker & McKenzie has announced that the megafirm has become the first global law practice to open an office in Peru; a Reuters article calls it the first…
Oct 9, 2012 4:00 PM CDT
In what a press release says is only the second such move by a major United States law firm, Florida-based Holland & Knight plans to open an…
Mar 1, 2012 11:16 PM CST
The attorney general of Brazil has filed a lawsuit against Twitter in a bid to block accounts that warn drivers of police speed traps and roadblocks.
The government argues the…
Feb 8, 2012 12:34 PM CST
Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the murder of a Peruvian woman, as his lawyer blamed the crime on his client’s prior unjustified arrest for the disappearance…
Jan 11, 2012 5:23 PM CST
K&L Gates has established its first office in South America, opening its doors yesterday in Sao Paulo, the financial capital of Brazil.
The office, which is the firm’s 39th worldwide,…
Nov 8, 2011 8:37 PM CST
Lisa A. Alfaro joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in 1995 after receiving her JD from Stanford Law School. Now she is partner in charge of the firm’s São Paulo office…
Nov 1, 2011 10:19 AM CDT
A Colombian prosecutor and her husband apologized and pleaded for leniency from a Nevada judge today, saying they hadn’t intended to harm a woman who died from an allergic reaction…
Oct 21, 2011 1:16 AM CDT
It’s not unusual to see opposing attorneys become friends again the moment a hard-fought case or courtroom argument is over.
But unlike many counsel for whom the war of words…
Oct 7, 2011 12:15 AM CDT
A Brazilian law professor shot and killed one of his students in the capital of Brasilia on Friday and then drove her body to a police station, a police officer…
Oct 3, 2011 3:04 PM CDT
The head of the police department in Sao Goncalo, Brazil, has been arrested along with seven officers in connection with the murder last month of a judge, the Sep 27, 2011 9:01 PM CDT
Some 17 tons of silver coins from the 1804 wartime shipwreck of a Spanish galleon must be returned to the government of Spain, which owns the Nuestra Senora de las…
Sep 21, 2011 9:22 PM CDT
When a rogue police officer needed to be dealt with, Judge Patricia Acioli was fearless about wielding a heavy hammer.
She jailed more than 60, most for murder, reports the…
Sep 17, 2011 12:03 AM CDT
It appears that the plaintiffs may be on the path to victory in a hard-fought international legal battle with Chevron Inc. over environmental damage done to the Ecuador rainforest by…
Sep 16, 2011 9:23 PM CDT
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