Granting a writ of mandamus, a federal appellate court has rejected the notion that incorporating in Delaware is a controlling factor in determining whether a company must defend a lawsuit…
Accused in September of mishandling millions in client trust money, a now-former counsel of Crowell & Moring traveled to Hong Kong and, at last report, was awaiting extradition back to…
An investment group that had sought damages from Dechert concerning a fraudulent $50 million loan promoted by the former managing partner of Dreier is out of luck.
While they are more than some ordinary workers make annually, the year-end bonuses for associates just announced by Cravath Swaine & Moore show that mergers and acquisition work isn’t booming,…
In an example of how cutting-edge technology apparently may be far ahead of lawmakers, PC Magazine is reporting that at least two U.S. shopping malls, in California…
Without admitting wrongdoing, Merck & Co. has agreed to pay a total of $950 million and a division will plead guilty to a misdemeanor to settle criminal and civil actions…
Fired on Friday along with more than 1,000 other workers at MF Global, at least four former employees today filed three separate claims in federal bankruptcy court lawsuit seeking two…
Officials say a massive “click hijack” malware scheme affecting 4 million computers and 500,000 individuals, businesses and even government agencies in 100 countries including the United States has been shut…
Reversing a lower court’s determination that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. was entitled to a new trial, the Colorado Supreme Court today approved a $10 million award to a truck driver who…
Both sides proclaimed victory today after a British judge ordered 3M Corp. to pay $1.3 million for failing to fulfill a promise to market a test for MRSA, a dangerous…
Contending that legal work performed by Foley & Lardner helped a former client perpetrate a claimed Ponzi scheme that stripped some investors of their life savings as insiders looted assets,…
Retained to represent a former employee of a mortgage brokerage after he unsuccessfully sued over allegedly unpaid commissions, a tiny Milwaukee, Wis., law firm wound up with a monster case.
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