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.
The former general counsel of a Florida energy company has had his privileges to practice before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suspended after he reportedly helped his company sell…
Five lawyers and a certified public accountant are among 13 defendants indicted in a federal racketeering conspiracy and securities fraud case in Camden, N.J. It concerns the alleged use of…
A longtime partner of Willkie Farr & Gallagher will be leading a group of up to 20 lawyers in-house to the firm’s biggest client in January, where he will serve…
Earlier this year, a 5-4 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court sank a massive would-be class action against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., finding that the suit by some 1.5 million current…
A college instructor and mother on a crusade to clean up children’s play areas has been warned by a lawyer for a McDonald’s franchisee that she is banned from eight…
A new corporate arbitration program hosted by what many consider the nation’s top business court violates the U.S. Constitution by holding “secret” judicial proceedings, contends a lawsuit that was filed…
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