1300: Insurers and commodity-related stocks are keeping Footsie well in the red. Aviva is the heaviest faller, joined in the bottom 10 by fellow insurers Legal and General and Prudential. Eurasian Natural Resources leads a decline in mining stocks after copper fell to a three-year low, while with crude falling near $50 a barrel, oil group Cairn Energy falls back. Asset manager Schroders falls ...

It is galling to think that Alberto Gonzales, whose department trampled over the rights of so many people, is having taxpayers pay for private counsel.

Renowned fathers' rights attorney, Jeffery M. Leving, recently interviewed President-elect Obama's senior legal advisor, Eric Holder, on Soul 106.3 FM to get the votes out. Another important focus of the interview was, if elected President, would then Senator Obama ask Holder to become his Attorney General?

McALLEN, Tex., Nov. 18 -- Vice President Cheney and former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor.

The role of Goa's Advocate General Subodh Kantak in the rape case of a German minor has come under a cloud. The counsel of the victim's mother Monday alleged that Kantak provided legal assistance to the main accused Rohit Monserrate, the son of a minister.

Newsweek: President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder as his attorney general, putting the veteran Washington lawyer in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice Department, according to two legal sources close to the presidential transition.

Regarding "Poultry legal motion is just another ploy” (Opinion, Nov. 8): This motion is not an 11th-hour tactical maneuver. The poultry companies have maintained from the start that the Cherokee Nation is an indispensable party to any action seeking to recover money for supposed damages to the Illinois River watershed.Attorney General Drew Edmondson was aware of this through the companies’ ...

Newsweek is now reporting that the answer is yes. Citing two legal sources close to the presidential transition team, reporter Michael Isikoff writes that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen the 57-year old Covington & Burling partner to become the country's first African-American Attorney General.