Corrected: As March oral arguments near in a much-watched U.S. Supreme Court case about the circumstances under which a judicial campaign contribution should require a jurist’s recusal, a substantial number…
As employers increasingly allow employees to telecommute, legal issues arise about whether to monitor electronically their at-home work and, if so, to what degree.
A longtime Pennsylvania senator wielded his power, in part, by pressuring companies to send legal work to certain law firms, including his own, according to testimony yesterday at his federal…
At the request of New York University, a New York judge has extended a previous order preventing a $1.5 billion hedge fund and a limited investment partnership, as well as…
Thomas Mundy isn’t a lawyer. But he says he’s filed 150 lawsuits over the past 18 months, seeking to enforce a federal law that requires businesses to be wheelchair-accessible.
For nine years, Harry Markopolos tried to persuade the SEC that Bernard Madoff must be running an investment scam, contending that the strategy he claimed to be using didn’t match…
Lawyers representing clients who lost money investing in Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme may wish to take a close look at the newspaper.
In 2006, Kosta Kovachev consented, without admitting wrongdoing, to a $358,146 judgment in a civil Securities and Exchange Commission case. It concerned an alleged timeshare-sales Ponzi scheme involving 10 defendants…
Linklaters was the top dealmeister of 2008, advising on 249 announced European mergers and acquisitions including the year’s biggest: the purchase of beermaker Anheuser-Busch Cos.by InBev NV.
A well-known corporate and intellectual property boutique in Silicon Valley has laid off eight of its 90 associates, including half of its first-year class in its biggest office.
In addition to keeping prosecutors and white-collar defense lawyers busy, the alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme that 70-year-old Bernard Madoff is accused of operating under the guise of a purportedly…
Individuals in the Tampa, Fla., area for whom “airport security,” “nasty nurse” and “Mad Science ElectroPlay” role-playing fantasies are a turn-on apparently now have more than one option, as far…
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