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Byline: RHONDA L. RUNDLE AND NATHAN KOPPEL The career of one of the U.S.'s most entrepreneurial, controversial, philanthropic and rich lawyers came to a close yesterday, as Melvyn Weiss was [...]

Byline: NATHAN KOPPEL Marilyn Monroe, a U.S. federal court has found, was a New Yorker when she died in 1962. That isn't good news for Ms. Monroe's estate, which has [...]

Byline: MARK MAREMONT AND NATHAN KOPPEL Monster Worldwide Inc.'s founder and former chief executive officer, Andrew McKelvey, was personally involved in the backdating of stock-option grants for company employees, according [...]

Bracewell and Patterson LLP changed its name to Bracewell and Giuliani LLP when it hired former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani in order to attract clients, but as in other cases with famous hires, the move may not pay off financially for the law firm.

Litigation lawyer Anthony Buzbee has caused an outcry because of a speech in which he explained how the location of personal injury lawsuits can be picked to maximize plaintiff benefit.

Chicago-based law firm McDermott Will & Emery has entered into a strategic alliance with Yuan Da Law Offices of Shanghai in order to enter the Chinese market.

Matthew Farmer's decision to leave Holland and Knight LLP because he felt that his billing hours were being inflated has drawn attention to the ethics legal billing practices.

The law firm of Gilbert Heintz & Randolph LLP was fined for conflicts of interest in several asbestos cases that it was involved in.

The United Kingdom is limiting the export of thiopental sodium, the chemical used in the United States in executions that use the lethal-injection method. The United Kingdom will require any company exporting the drug to obtain a special licence and insure that the drug is not intended for executions.

Florida's BankAtlantic Bancorp Inc. and some of its senior executives are liable for damages because they misled investors as to real-estate loan values in the wake of the housing market drop, according to a jury in Miami. Such damages may reach $42 million.

Thiopental sodium, one of the three drugs used in combination during lethal injection executions, is in short supply and the company that makes and supplies it says it has suspended production for lack of a key material used in its manufacture. Oklahoma wants to use a substitute, pento barbital, which has much the same properties as thiopental sodium and is used in the euthanization of animals.

California s use of the three-drug lethal injection process is under scrutiny after Judge Jeremy Fogel issued a stay of execution for Albert Greenwood Brown Jr., who was to die on Thursday. At issue is the pending expiry date of one of the drugs, thiopental sodium, and concerns over whether the drugs are properly administered so as not to be inhumane and painful.