Shares in Siemens fell by more than 10% in early trading after the German industrial giant unexpectedly issued a profit warning.
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has said its reserves in 2007 were stable, despite fears of a drop.
Despite well-publicized layoffs at several major law firms lately and a struggling economy, law firms in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom can expect to do just fine in the future, albeit not quite as well as in recent boom years.
A Las Vegas personal injury lawyer who failed to show up at trial to defend a client accused of murder will have to pay $2,500 in court costs and the fees of a public defender who took over the case.
The Chinese government on Sunday blocked Internet users in the country from accessing the video-sharing website YouTube after videos of a recent government crackdown on Tibetan protesters challenging Chinese rule were posted on the site.
An ongoing Pentagon investigation into the videotaping of terror suspect interrogations has uncovered at least 50 videotaped interrogations
The trial on the most serious criminal charges in the multibillion-dollar failure of the Parmalat dairy empire opened Friday, more than four years after the company acknowledged a crushing debt that would lead to Europe´s biggest corporate bankruptcy.
US financial chiefs have put forward a series of new regulations to prevent a repeat of the continuing credit crunch and bad mortgage debt woes.
European leaders meeting in Brussels are set to endorse binding measures for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Associates appear to be more worried about the economy’s effects than the leaders of law firms interviewed by American Lawyer.
The FBI has continued to improperly use so-called national security letters (NSLs), with the number of violations increasing in 2006 over previous years, according to a US Department of Justice follow-up review released Thursday
Visa Inc. disclosed that it will pay $15 million in legal fees and expenses in connection with its anticipated initial public offering expected to take place this month.
The US House of Representatives Tuesday voted 229-182 to pass a resolution creating an independent ethics panel to investigate allegations of malfeasance against House lawmakers.
As a number of discovery debacles in recent years make clear, law firms aren´t always as diligent as they should be about helping clients produce all of the electronic material requested in discovery.
Carlyle Capital Corporation (CCC), a unit of the private equity firm Carlyle Group, has said it will not be able to meet lenders´ demands for money.
Suspicious-transaction reports by banks have helped federal prosecutors launch prosecutions for crimes ranging from terrorism to public corruption.
A French prosecutor has asked judges to bring manslaughter charges against US airline Continental over the crash of an Air France Concorde in 2000.
W. R. Grace & Company, a worldwide chemical company driven into bankruptcy by hundreds of millions of dollars in asbestos poisoning claims, has agreed to pay the federal government $250 million for environmental cleanup
More law firms are funding pipeline projects in an effort to find promising minority students at an earlier stage.
Despite fierce lobbying by Microsoft, Yahoo, and consumer advocates, the European Commission has allowed Google to snap up DoubleClick.
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