At last, lawyers are.Thomson Reuters, a media and information-services company, bought Pangea3, a legal-process outsourcing firm with most of its lawyers in Mumbai, in November.
The lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, 49, who until her imprisonment in 2010 was one of the last lawyers taking on high-profile human rights and political cases in Iran, decided in October to go on the hunger strike out of fear of increasing limitations imposed on her family.
"Nothing further," said the last defense lawyer, Samuel Karliner.
The last non-lawyer lord chancellor was 340 years ago.
On that last issue, lawyers, Wall Street types and compensation consultants agree with the president.
Having sliced around £800m a year – about 10% overall – off the annual MoJ budget during the last parliament, lawyers and prison governors believe resources have already been cut to the bone.
LAST week, lawyers for almost 10,000 policemen, firemen and other workers agreed to a $712 million fund to compensate these rescuers for illnesses sustained while responding to the devastation at the World Trade Center after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
