A second law firm has been named as a defendant in an investor lawsuit contending that a now-former partner of Proskauer Rose, Thomas Sjoblom, participated in a claimed $7 billion…
Although it appears that no sensitive consumer data may have been stolen, Wal-Mart was among the major companies attacked by computer hackers in 2005 and 2006.
it looks like Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford may soon have a private lawyer again. After his assets were frozen, he couldn’t afford to pay legal counsel and had to…
Corporate spending on outside counsel is expected to continue to drop, but the decline likely won’t be as big as this year’s 10.8 percent reduction, a new study says.
A federal judge has ruled against a New York law firm in a hard-fought case over its debt-collection practices, finding after a bench trial that Upton Cohen & Slamowitz conducted…
As cybercrime has exploded in recent years and even traditional crimes ranging from harassment to murder routinely involve Internet-related communication, authorities in many jurisdictions increasingly are struggling to keep up…
If the BlackBerry buzzes with a question about an employer-employee relationship–as it well may, now that David Letterman has given the issue a higher profile–lawyers need to be prepared to…
Over the past 18 months, amidst a global financial crisis, Microsoft has cut its legal budget by 15 percent, laying off 5 percent of its in-house employees in order to…
A former Wal-Mart pharmacist who contended she was fired on a trumped-up disciplinary charge after she complained she was paid less than male counterparts by the giant retailer is entitled…
Four relatives of Bernard Madoff employed at an investment firm they treated as a “family piggy bank” should have to return nearly $199 million handed to them during the years…
As drivers increasingly multitask by doing office work behind the wheel–talking on cell phones, text-messaging, even reading or working on a laptop computer–some are becoming defendants in tort litigation.
The general counsel of Hertz Global Holdings Inc. has filed a suit claiming a research firm defamed the auto rental company by issuing pessimistic statements about Hertz’s financial condition.
A former chief financial officer of Broadcom Corp. says he expected his 2006 conversations with Irell & Manella about stock options grants to be confidential, because the law firm was…
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