The price of the Holocaust
Article Abstract:
Germany has paid reparations for the Holocaust of $60 billion, and there are calls for more payments to be made. These calls are especially strong in the US, and German businesses and banks are settling up a fund to pay compensation to victims, including former slave laborers. US companies also face claims, and claims are being made in other countries. Some compensation is necessary, especially when companies have not paid what is owed on policies or deposits. The call for compensation also involves a drive by politicians to gain ethnic votes, and lawyers obtain large fees.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
John Coale's next case
Article Abstract:
Lawyer, John Coale, has been involved in a number of significant legal actions, and he has turned his attention to gun control. Past cases include action against school boards over allegations of over-prescription for Attention Deficit Disorder, and against Ford Motor over school bus design. Coale aims to create a bandwagon with his action against gun producers, and has been in touch with the media to attract attention to his action. He argues that the government is forced to take action on issues that he deals with.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
McLaw acquitted: lawyers
Article Abstract:
Baker and Mckenzie rank first internationally because of their innovative style of opening new offices. Their law offices abroad are staffed with local lawyers. This has paid off and the firm with 700 more lawyers than the nearest rival, Skadden, Arps, also gets the most fees.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1993
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Sign of the times. An office is not a hive. New BRE assessment may affect office refurbishment
- Abstracts: The triumph of the west: Clinton and Congress. Sand in the wheels of trade
- Abstracts: Spot the argument. Volker Ruhe, Germany's next foreign minister? The Germany that can say no
- Abstracts: Russia eyes the world. Russia's brutal war. The end of a short love affair: Russia and the world