The chief of the new United States Cyber Command post is calling for the creating of a restricted computer network to help protect critical civilian services, such as the power…
It appears that attorney Granville Webster Burns simply didn’t see a fellow California lawyer when he drove into her as she was crossing a street on foot in Manhattan Beach.
Ousted Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd will get to keep $12.2 million in severance under a lawsuit settlement, but he’ll have to give up rights to stock worth millions of dollars.
One of the nation’s largest home mortgage servicers has temporarily halted foreclosures, eviction lockouts, cash-for-keys transactions and sales of foreclosed homes in 23 states, including Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio…
An Idaho attorney is being held without bail in San Diego, Calif., where he also had an office, following a federal grand jury indictment last month on child-exploitation charges.
Although BigLaw firms in Washington, D.C., weren’t as hard-hit by the economic downturn as New York counterparts focused on banking and financial matters, many are still struggling to find solid…
A federal appeals court has ruled that a law used to collect damages in the United States for human rights abuses in other countries does not apply to corporations.
The Department of Labor has filed an administrative complaint against a subsidiary of Tyson Foods Inc., alleging that Tyson Fresh Meat systematically refused to hire women at its Joslin, Ill.,…
A federal judge has dismissed an unusual “reverse redlining” lawsuit in which Baltimore contends Wells Fargo Bank’s subprime mortgage loans cost the city tax revenue by targeting minority homeowners for…
An arbitrator has ruled (PDF) that a former in-house lawyer for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. may use documents that otherwise would be protected by attorney-client privilege because…
The former chief executive officer and tax attorney for the Quellos Group LLC hedge fund have accepted a plea agreement that will require them to pay the Internal Revenue Service…
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