By allowing a filmmaker access to attorney-client meetings for his Crude documentary about a megabucks environmental case in Ecuador, lawyers for the plaintiffs did not create a subject-matter waiver for…
Polsinelli Shughart has opened a new office in Dallas with a three-lawyer mergers and acquisitions team from K&L Gates and plans further growth there down the road.
A Texas jury is beginning deliberations in a money-laundering case against a former partner at Clark Thomas & Winters who is accused of padding law firm bills to conceal improper…
A former client has lost a legal battle to recoup a $6.3 million settlement stolen by his then-legal counsel Marc Dreier after it was wired to his attorney trust account.
Internal corporate investigations are a big business for the lawyers who conduct them—often former employees of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A former cheerleader for the Indianapolis Colts has sued the team alleging that it discriminated against her by firing her after she posed in racy photographs when it had not…
Are the criminal activities at big banks that led to the financial meltdown of 2008 simply too hard to prove? Or, because of relaxed government regulation in recent years, did…
Quest Diagnostics, California’s biggest medical lab testing provider, yesterday in a settlement agreed to repay the state $241 million for alleged Medi-Cal overcharges.
Wilson Sonsini Goodich & Rosati has hired William B. Chandler III, who is retiring as chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, the New York Times’ DealBook…
Sbarro Inc., a fast-food chain serving Italian fare, announced a plan in April to enter bankruptcy, but today Bloomberg News reports that the business is instead negotiating…
LinkedIn is expected to raise more than $405 million in an initial public offering this week, and according to registration papers filed with the SEC, the networking site…
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, twin brothers who say that Facebook was their idea, plan to appeal their case against the social media giant to the U.S. Supreme Court, May 17, 2011 3:23 PM CDT
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