December 23, 2019
NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA — Days after the March 10 crash of a Kenya-bound Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing jet that killed all 157 people on board, strangers began calling or visiting bereaved families, saying they represented U.S. law firms. They showed up uninvited …
June 26, 2019
Harvard University is committing more capital to a strategy that backs plaintiffs in commercial disputes, delivering robust uncorrelated returns. The strategy is run by IMF Bentham Ltd., a publicly traded company which last week finished raising $500 million for a …
July 31, 2013
British police said 22 law firms were among the clients of four private investigators who were jailed last year for using illegal methods to get information. The Serious and Organised Crime Agency compiled the list of clients ahead of the …
December 20, 2011
OneBeacon Professional Insurance (OBPI), a member of OneBeacon Insurance Group, announced the expansion of its Lawyers’ Professional Liability (LPL) offerings to include network security and privacy (NSP) liability coverage, made available to its customers in two ways — as an …
December 16, 2011
A judge who was assigned to hear all of the asbestos cases in her southwestern Illinois county was stripped of those cases after it was revealed her campaign committee received $30,000 in contributions from area law firms specializing in asbestos-related …