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• The Times publishes list of 100 most influential lawyers in Great Britain

  Mar 22 2012 The Times has published its annual list of the most influential lawyers in Great Britain. The Times Law 100 includes includes judges, charity executives, human... more

• Former acting Solicitor General joins Hogan Lovells

  Aug 25 2011 Hogan Lovells has hired Neal Katyal, the former acting U.S. solicitor general, to join the firm’s appellate group in Washington DC. Katyal served as the acting... more

• Washington firm defends Bahraini government in labor rights dispute

  Jun 14 2011 Washington law firm Sorini, Samet & Associates is set to represent the Bahraini government as it fights a labor complaint associated with the firing of hundreds of... more

• Indian Supreme Court admits its error: Death penalty avoided

  Dec 08 2010 The Supreme Court of India, in a rare admission, has accepted that two earlier judgments upholding the death sentence were a mistake and violation of human rights of... more

• Firms double dealing on human rights?

  Mar 19 2010 I thought I'd point out this interesting article on the role of law firms in the protection of human rights. The article notes that the wealthiest international... more

• Big Law leaders defend Guantanamo lawyers

  Mar 06 2010 Keep America Safe , an organization launched by former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Liz Cheney, has presented a video questioning the loyalty of a group of... more

• According to US Attorney General, 30 Guantanamo detainees approved for release

  Apr 29 2009 United States Attorney General Eric Holder stated recently that around 30 individuals held at the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been approved for... more

• Apartheid lawsuits against US companies allowed to proceed in part

  Apr 08 2009 A judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York "narrowed" extensive claims against a number of US companies arising out of alleged... more

• US Federal appeals court denies Muslim police officer right to wear headscarf

  Apr 08 2009 The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that a Muslim female Philadelphia police officer should not be permitted to wear her headscarf while... more

• New trial denied for Mumia Abu-Jamal at the US Supreme Court

  Apr 07 2009 Mumia Abu-Jamal, well-known for his controversial conviction of killing a police officer in the United States, has had an appeal effectively denied by the US Supreme... more

• Chinese Uighurs at Guantanamo seek relief at US Supreme Court

  Apr 06 2009 A group of Chinese muslims belonging to the Uighur ethnic group who are currently detained at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have petitioned the... more

• US federal judge asked to provide accounting in Marcos case

  Mar 31 2009 Lawyers for victims of human rights abuses of the former Philippine leader Ferdinand Marcos have asked an appeals court to order the presiding judge to give an... more

• US Contractor CACI subject to suit for Abu Ghraib abuses

  Mar 20 2009 US District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee ruled yesterday that a case against a US defense contractor whose staff was alleged to have participated in abuses at Abu Ghraib... more

• Chinese human rights law firm Yitong closed for six months

  Feb 24 2009 Officials ordered well-known Beijing human rights law firm Yitong Law Office to cease operations for six months for allegedly allowing a lawyer in the firm to practice... more

• Human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov shot dead in Moscow

  Jan 19 2009 A top human rights lawyer who acted for the family of Kheda Kungayeva, an 18-year-old Chechen woman murdered by a Russian army officer, has been shot dead in Moscow.... more

• Russian activist lawyer poisoned

  Oct 17 2008 Frequent Kremlin critic and prominent human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko was hospitalized after inhaling fumes released by several mercury pellets discovered in... more