If you’re a law student and wondering what would be a lucrative field to enter, give serious consideration to becoming a lawyer for the Swiss or American teams fighting over the rules for the next America’s Cup. It’s looking like this dispute will carry you into retirement.
American billionaire Larry Ellison has filed new legal actions accusing Ernesto Bertarelli, his Swiss billionaire counterpart, of willfully misinterpreting and changing long-established rules in an effort to disqualify Ellison’s BMW-Oracle trimaran from even sailing in the America’s Cup scheduled for Feb. 8 at Ras al Khaimah on the Persian Gulf.
BMW-Oracle, which represents San Francisco’s Golden Gate Yacht Club, also wants … Details