Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is adding another litigator to its white-collar criminal defense practice with the acquisition of Michele Roberts.
Discussing in a presentence investigation report an appropriate sentence for a 41-year-old former programmer for the Goldman Sachs investment bank who took proprietary source code before leaving for another job,…
At an action-packed pretrial hearing yesterday, a federal judge indicated that he may be considering dismissing the indictment (PDF) in an obstruction case against a former in-house counsel…
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has filed a $900 million reckless-lending suit against three Washington Mutual executives stemming from the biggest bank failure in history.
A form of “debtors’ prison” is alive and well in the United States, as the debt collection industry relies on arrest warrants to help recover money owed by borrowers.
A Louisiana personal injury lawyer who operated an “attorney incubator” for fledgling practitioners has had his business model shot down by the Internal Revenue Service.
A North Carolina state senator who is also a lawyer has introduced a bill in the general assembly that would permit non-attorney ownership of law firms.
It isn’t just George Hotz who may soon be feeling the heat from his publication of a “jailbreak” encryption key and software tools on his website that allow PlayStation 3…
A former general counsel of WellCare is among five ex-executives of the Florida-based company who were indicted by a federal grand jury in an alleged Medicaid fraud that is claimed…
One of the two remaining partners in Howrey’s London office is leaving to join Kirkland & Ellis, along with another lawyer who was of counsel but is joining Kirkland as…
A former managing director of global management consultant McKinsey & Company has been accused of providing tips about Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Procter & Gamble…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that corporations do not have a right of personal privacy under freedom of information laws in an opinion that derided AT&T for its grammatical…
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