Slater & Gordon offers law firm stock-purchase plan for UK workers

Publicly held law firm Slater & Gordon has announced a plan to encourage its workers in its United Kingdom offices to purchase stock in their employer’s company. Assuming the plan is approved by shareholders at an upcoming meeting, the law firm will match share purchases by attorneys and staff at…

Jul 11, 2014 3:15 PM CDT

In first case of its kind, feds use RICO statute to pursue claimed Internet credit-theft ring

When federal anti-racketeering statutes were enacted, their intended targets were organized crime families largely based in the U.S. But today the Internet is where crime is rampant, and federal authorities are now using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act as a weapon against claimed international criminal confederates working in…

Jul 9, 2014 10:25 PM CDT

TSA bans uncharged cellphones and laptops on some international flights

Those planning international travel should take note of a new TSA rule. Concerned about potential terrorism, the federal agency is requiring airline passengers headed to the U.S. from the Middle East and Europe to demonstrate that their cellphones and laptop computers can turn on before boarding, according to the Associated…

Jul 7, 2014 4:35 PM CDT

Sarkozy detained on suspicion of interfering with French investigation into financial corruption

Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s former president, was detained for questioning Tuesday by French anticorruption investigators. At issue was whether Sarkozy and his lawyer Thierry Herzog improperly tried to get information about an ongoing investigation into Sarkozy’s campaign finances, according to the New York Times. The Times reports that law enforcement focused…

Jul 1, 2014 3:20 PM CDT

How countries are successfully using the law to get looted cultural treasures back

For two decades, a pair of monumental statues guarded the entrance to the Southeast Asian galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. These days, all that remains of them are two faint patches on the floor where they stood until a year ago. On May 20,…

Jul 1, 2014 10:40 AM CDT

ABA’s internationally focused entities provide education, professional connections

Jul 1, 2014 10:00 AM CDT

Prison ban on steel-string guitars in Britain has rock musicians outraged

Jul 1, 2014 9:20 AM CDT

New ABA principles provide starting point for businesses to eliminate forced and child labor

Jul 1, 2014 7:19 AM CDT

Stephen Zack plugs the ABA’s role in the rule of law during stint as U.N. delegate

Jul 1, 2014 7:00 AM CDT

Woman is convicted of causing 2 deaths by stopping for ducklings on highway, faces maximum of life

A jury in Montreal convicted a Canadian woman on Friday of causing two deaths when she stopped her car in a highway traffic lane in 2010 to rescue a family of half a dozen ducklings. Although Emma Czornobaj, 25, lacked criminal intent, she nonetheless faces a maximum life prison term…

Jun 23, 2014 10:25 PM CDT

Claimed leader in Benghazi slaying of US ambassador is captured, will be tried here

In a secret raid over the weekend, the U.S. captured a suspected leader of the fatal Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. embassy compound in Benghazi in which the American ambassador to Libya was slain. Ahmed Abu Khattala was captured Sunday near Benghazi by U.S. Special Operations forces and…

Jun 17, 2014 6:10 PM CDT

Canada grants asylum to US woman sentenced to 30 years for having sex with teen

A mortgage broker who fled Florida with her family after being criminally convicted in 2008 for having sex with a 16-year-old boy on her son’s baseball team has been granted asylum in Canada. Denise Harvey, 47, won the rare permission to apply for permanent residency because her 30-year sentence was…

Jun 10, 2014 9:40 PM CDT

Survey says BigLaw growth is highest since 2007, due to foreign mergers

The nation’s largest law firms had a robust 3.9 percent growth rate in 2013, ending the year with 4,412 more lawyers on their attorney rosters. But that increase in headcount—the biggest since 2007, before the economic crash resulted in a decline of 5.3 percent; and considerably more than the 1.1…

Jun 9, 2014 3:25 PM CDT

Paleontologist, ‘a one-man black market in prehistoric fossils,’ gets time for $1M dinosaur sale

A paleontologist described by a federal prosecutor as “a one-man black market in prehistoric fossils” was sentenced to three months in prison on Tuesday for his role in plotting to smuggle dinosaur bones and other remains from Mongolia. Eric Prokopi, 39, pleaded guilty in 2012 to three felony counts related…

Jun 4, 2014 4:50 PM CDT

DOJ charges Russian in ‘Cryptolocker’ and ‘Project Zeus’ attacks, says US victims lost over $100M

The Department of Justice has announced charges against a Russian man who is alleged to be the leader of a computer hacking group responsible for “Cryptolocker” and “Project Zeus” virus attacks that cost U.S. individuals and businesses more than $100 million, ABC News reports. “Evgeniy Bogachev and the members of…

Jun 2, 2014 10:15 PM CDT