Once upon a time, associates who were let go by their law firms tiptoed quietly out the door, perhaps after several months spent “working” at their desks to find another…
A former first-year associate at Bingham McCutchen complains that the law firm didn’t do enough to investigate alleged druggings of attorneys by a former employee and/or attendee of firm events…
Banks aren’t betting on lax enforcement of a confusing new federal law that may prohibit them from processing online gambling wagers. So many customers could find their attempts to place…
In a case that has resulted in stricter regulatory standards for all national banks, one of the country’s biggest financial institutions has agreed to settle for $144 million a federal…
Concerns about potential interference by major Internet service providers with free and equal access by all Web surfers aren’t severe enough to require legislation at this time, the chairman of…
They attend one of the world’s most renowned institutions of higher learning. But even after students learned that proctors at Oxford University are logging onto Facebook Apr 18, 2008 11:16 PM CDT
In a difficult economy, older workers have reason to worry more than their younger counterparts about being fired. Although it’s illegal to discriminate against those 40 and over because of…
In the wake of last week’s near-collapse of the once-famed Bear Stearns investment bank, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is saying that such investment houses, like regular commercial banks, should…
In the latest signpost pointing toward a potential loosening-up of federal restrictions on broadcast content, the Fox Television network is fighting a $91,000 FCC indecency fine over a 2003 reality…
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to a federal policy that makes it easier for companies to pay lower health benefits to retired workers when they…
A government lawyer argued yesterday that a former partner at Greenberg Traurig covered up crimes at a Miami bank that was eventually shut down for fraud.
Next month, a limited phase-in of newly revised international banking standards known as “Basel II,” after the Swiss city in which they were developed, is planned in the U.S. The…
After pleading guilty in a $1 billion federal securities fraud conspiracy case last year, Florida attorney Stephen Ziegler was sentenced to a five-year prison term and had his law license…
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