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The day Al Franken officially, finally won Minnesota's U.S. Senate race he sent an e-mail to hundreds of thousands of supporters.

Former American International Group Inc. chief Maurice R. Greenberg was grilled on the witness stand for seven days over the past two weeks in a dispute over the ownership of a large block of AIG shares controlled by Mr.

Jason Murtagh, 34, recently remarked that for him, in the matter of Haywood v. Drown , the most nerve-wracking moment was when the U.S. Supreme Court granted writ of certiorari on June 16 of last year.

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And liquidation is Draconian," GM's lawyer Harvey Miller told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber.

Baker Botts , which in March laid off an undisclosed number of attorneys , has opened a new office in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and is expanding its other two Middle Eastern offices in Dubai, UAE and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance saw average profits per equity partner drop 37% to A 733,000 in the last fiscal year.

Facebook's new headquarters in the Stanford Research Park is less than three miles from its former patchwork of offices in downtown Palo Alto.

Watchdogs are an endangered species in the Age of Obama. The latest government ombudsman to get the muzzle: Amtrak Inspector General Fred Weiderhold.

Entertainment Tonight Headlines Lawyers who say they have represented Michael Jackson tell ET they "are now carrying out his wishes and desires as expressed in his last will and testament." John Branca of Ziffren, Brittenham LLP and Joel Katz of Greenberg Traurig LLP, say they were hired prior to Jacksona s death and that a 2002 will signed by ...

A will for Michael Jackson has surfaced and is expected in court soon, a lawyer for the family said Tuesday, countering their previous claim that he died without such a document.

Data presented yesterday, in Budapest, demonstrated that add-on treatment with the novel, once-daily anti-epileptic Zebinix* resulted in a marked and sustained decrease in seizure frequency over the long-term. Results from the one-year extension of a pivotal Eslicarbazepine Acetate phase III study were presented at the International Congress for ...

Ruth Madoff, who for months has silently endured the furor over her husband's massive Ponzi scheme, spoke out today after Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in jail.

A deal is in the works to send Yemeni detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Saudi Arabia, but don't ask the attorney general about it.

Lawyers eager for jury trial experience grow weary of writing motions. But like it or not, motions for summary judgment, motions under Daubert, et al.

A former lawyer for Johnson & Johnson was named director of the state Division of Law, officials announced today.

A former associate at Bingham McCutchen LLP sued the Boston law firm this week, complaining the firm brushed off her complaints that she was drugged by a co-worker at its holiday party in 2007.

U.S. antitrust regulators have asked for more information on Oracle Corp's plan to buy Sun Microsystems Inc and need a little more time to review the $7 billion deal, an attorney for Oracle said.

Officials of Amtrak have "systematically violated the letter and spirit of the Inspector General Act," Sen.

A North Carolina media company went bankrupt Thursday and on the same day filed a $140 million malpractice suit against their former go-to corporate counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, alleging that a mistake in an offering document written in the late 1990s ended up costing the company about $136 million a decade later.