Speaking at a conference today in New York on the outlook for mergers and acquisitions, a famed attorney dealmaker predicted that one result of the current economic crisis will be…
A senior private banking executive with UBS AG has been indicted in a federal tax fraud conspiracy case after months of investigation of how some U.S. residents allegedly dodged their…
A memo to clients yesterday from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz discusses lessons that some major investors learned the hard way from the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.
Only a few months ago, the future seemingly wasn’t looking rosy for Carl Oosterhouse, a former partner of Dickinson Wright. The Michigan Attorney Discipline Board found that he should have…
Nearly 25 years after a catastrophic accident in Bhopal, India, killed thousands of people, a federal appeals court in the U.S. has reinstated a 2004 lawsuit concerning those allegedly exposed…
When attorney Mark Peroff moved to the Manhattan office of Hiscock & Barclay, a 200-lawyer firm headquartered in upstate New York, he persuaded clients to follow him by offering a…
As a partner at Hunton & Williams, James Meadows billed his time at $650 per hour. Since moving on Oct. 1 to the no-frills law firm of FSB Legal Counsel,…
What a difference more than six months of financial crisis can create. After the fall of the once-fabled Enron energy company and the federal conviction of 22 of its former…
New York’s highest court has turned down arguments that lawyer Davis Boies was improperly allowed to testify about an internal investigation of Tyco in the trial of two of its…
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