Years ago, when he worked at Sullivan & Cromwell’s offices on Wall Street as a corporate associate during the 1990s, Gil Cornblum regularly conducted what he called “spelunking” raids there…
A former attorney general in Ontario, Canada, Michael Bryant, has been charged with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death after a fatal auto…
Seven employees of McCarthy Tétrault spent more than five hours in an express elevator yesterday on one of the hottest days of the year, but no one at the well-known…
As stunning layoffs have been made at United States and London-based law firms in recent months, Canadian law firms—thanks to the relative stability of Canadian banks—have been much less likely…
A Canadian judge has found two producers, whose company brought to stage “Ragtime” and “Phantom of the Opera” guilty of participating in widespread accounting fraud.
A New York man who married his longtime same-sex partner in Canada last year is entitled to inherit his estate as his spouse, a New York probate judge has held…
In a situation that has sparked calls for more stringent background checks on all judicial applicants for the provincial court in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, a newly appointed judge has…
A receiver for the Dreier law firm says it will soon file for bankruptcy, following an alleged massive fraud by its founder and sole equity partner, Marc Dreier.
Just when it seemed that the alleged situation involving the founder of Dreier and his disintegrating 238-attorney law firm could hardly get much worse, even more bad news is being…
In an era of high-tech fraud, the founder of the Dreier law firm is accused of doing it the old-fashioned way. Using little more than his position and…
The founder of the not quite 250-attorney Dreier law firm was charged today by federal prosecutors in Manhattan with securities and wire fraud, in connection with what an Securities and…
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