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• Former Mishcon de Reya partner sentenced to 5 years prison for fraud and forgery

  Jan 29 2012 A former Mishcon de Reya partner has been sentenced to five years in prison for participating in a €22m loan scam. Kevin Steele was convicted by the Serious Fraud... more

• Clifford Chance secretary convicted of fraud

  Feb 07 2011 A former Clifford Chance secretary has been convicted of fraud for stealing over £23,000 from the firm. Judie Groom was the secretary to two construction partners at... more

• Ex-Mayer Brown partner Collins gets 7 years over Refco

  Jan 15 2010 Joseph P. Collins, a former Mayer Brown partner, was sentenced yesterday to serve seven years in prison for helping Refco Inc. executives defraud investors of $2.4... more

• Medvedev sacks 20 prison officials after death of Russian lawyer

  Dec 15 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sacked 20 prison officials today in response to an investigation into the death of an imprisoned Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.... more

• Italian jury finds U.S. student guilty of murdering British roommate

  Dec 07 2009 After a 10-month trial in Perugia, Italy, a jury has found American student Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito guilty of murdering British... more

• Marc Dreier heading to federal prison in Minnesota

  Sep 02 2009 Disgraced attorney Marc Dreier is heading to the Federal Correctional Institution in Sandstone, Minnesota, where he will serve his 20-year sentence for fraud. more

• Man faces six months in jail for courtroom yawn

  Aug 12 2009 Clifton Williams, 33 is facing six months in jail for making what court documents call a yawn-like sound in a Chicago suburb courtroom in Will County last month, where... more

• Law firm founder Marc Dreier sentenced to 20 years in prison

  Jul 15 2009 Marc Dreier, founder of 250-lawyers firm Dreier LLP, was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday after pleading guilty to defrauding investors and clients of $700... more

• Former Latham partner sentenced to 15 months in prison

  Jul 02 2009 Samuel Fishman, a former M&A partner in Latham & Watkins's New York office, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 (£6,000) fine and... more

• Ex-Milberg partners gets 6 months in prison

  Oct 28 2008 Two former Milberg Weiss partners, David Bershad, 68, and Steven Schulman, 57, were sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison for their roles in a kickback... more

• Attorney Weiss gets 30 months prison in kickback scheme

  Jun 03 2008 Melvyn Weiss, the co-founder of a law firm known for securities class-action suits, was sentenced Monday to 30 months in prison for his role in a lucrative lawsuit... more

• Prosecutors ask for 33 months in jail for Weiss

  May 24 2008 Federal prosecutors on Friday recommended Melvyn Weiss, the long-reigning king of multibillion-dollar U.S. class action litigation, spend no more than 33 months in... more

• Citizen Black Becomes Inmate No. 18330-424

  Mar 04 2008 Conrad Black, the former newspaper magnate who lived lavishly, socialized with rich and powerful people on both sides of the Atlantic and gave up his Canadian... more

• Algerian Officials Visit Guantanamo

  Mar 03 2008 A high-level Algerian delegation has visited the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and confirmed the identities of 17 Algerians imprisoned there, the justice minister... more

• Law Societies call for Guantanamo closure

  Mar 03 2008 The Law Societies of England & Wales, Scotland and 31 other bar associations have signed a joint letter to president Bush calling for the immediate closure of the... more