Five former executives of a private security company that made headlines over its involvement in a 2007 Baghdad shooting incident that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead are now under indictment,…
After news late last week that the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation had decided to consolidate nearly 200 lawsuits against Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. before a single federal…
Maryland’s governor signed legislation this week creating a new kind of corporation that seeks to make a profit at the same time it performs social good.
As one of the top trial lawyers in California, partner Linda Smith of O’Melveny & Myers was an obvious choice to work on a major antitrust case against Intel Corp.…
An investigative magistrate has been appointed in Paris to determine whether France Télécom should be charged with “moral harassment” in the suicides of 35 of its employees.
Only a few days ago, a federal judge in Houston said he wasn’t going to approve any more changes in defense counsel for jailed onetime billionaire R. Allen Stanford, who…
Although the financial crisis has revved up bank-related litigation, BigLaw firms aren’t seeing as much of it as a number of partners would like. Most represent banks and often are…
Adding to the legal woes of the embattled Toyota Motor Corp. is facing over reported sudden-acceleration problems in its vehicles, the U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that it is…
An increase in white-collar crime is keeping lawyers, forensic accountants and database analysts who work at investigative companies busy with due diligence work for corporate clients.
A U.S. lawyer criminally charged in Dubai with leaking information about his corporate employer says he simply e-mailed a friend from work a couple of times about what was going…
Updated: An American lawyer has been criminally charged in Dubai for allegedly revealing inside information about his corporate employer, a property investment company owned by the country’s ruler.
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