Lawyers who charge by the hour tend to discourage clients from seeking advice that can potentially prevent bigger problems from developing in the long run.
Following news over the weekend from the Wall Street Journal that an insider-trading probe of unprecedented scope is underway in the financial industry comes word today from the newspaper that…
In a move that has elicited gasps of outrage from supporters of a lawyer who died a year ago in a Russian prison, officials there are now accusing Sergei Magnitsky,…
A law firm defending onetime Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford in federal civil securities litigation has sued the insurer providing his company’s policy of directors and officers liability coverage and…
An environmental contamination case that made paralegal Erin Brockovich famous, after she was portrayed by actress Julia Roberts in a Oscar-winning movie about the litigation, may not be over yet.
As he gave a high-profile defendant in an options-backdating case the probation and home confinement recommended in a presentence investigation, a federal judge in Los Angeles yesterday also offered a…
A retired in-house lawyer’s announced intent to rely on claimed legal advice from outside counsel in defending against criminal accusations of wrongdoing concerning her work at GlaxoSmithKline raises tricky privilege…
Two years after a raid by federal agents of a Minnesota company allegedly revealed cocaine, ecstasy and methamphetamine to be in the under-desk safe of its chief legal counsel, felony…
In the wake of good news for Google Inc. concerning a now-concluded Federal Trade Commission probe of the company’s data collection practices for its global Street View mapping project comes…
In-house lawyers with a “continuous presence” in the state of New York shouldn’t be required to pass the state bar exam, according to the New York State Bar Association.
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