A voice mail message by lawyers on a speakerphone that didn’t get disconnected before some embarrassing discussions took place is being challenged by a company that wants to keep the…
A former assistant general counsel at General Re Corp. was sentenced yesterday to a year and a day in prison for his role in a scheme to manipulate financial statements,…
The former chief counsel at nylon and spandex maker Invista has received a public censure after a camera caught him stealing food from his company cafeteria.
In an unusual decision that could be persuasive in other courts, a Wisconsin appellate panel has recognized the power of an arbitration panel to order reinstatement of an in-house lawyer…
Former McAfee general counsel Kent Roberts successfully fought off charges alleging his participation in improper backdating, but four other general counsel are still in the government’s…
Financial disclosure forms filed by the many lawyers newly appointed by President Barack Obama to White House jobs provide a motherlode of information about what they were earning in their…
A hedge fund based in the United Kingdom has just raised another $47 million that may now be invested in commercial litigation cases in the United States.
Not that long ago, the in-house legal department at DuPont Co. was implementing an efficiency strategy concerning outside counsel that called for the corporation to use a smaller number of…
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