A former corporate partner in Baker & McKenzie’s New York office has been indicted for allegedly stealing $1.3 million from a client trust account. The money reportedly represents interest earned…
There’s no shortage of work for FBI agents, as the agency has revved up its investigations of alleged corporate, mortgage and securities wrongdoing in recent years.
A major U.K.-based international law firm stands to get a six-figure bonus this year from a corporate client if it meets certain goals, including having women comprise at least 25…
Updated: Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has definitely decided to lead a proxy fight for control of the Yahoo Inc. board, according to news reports, and some observers are predicting…
Broadcom Corp.’s two founders, its general counsel and a former chief financial officer were all named as defendants today in a civil complaint filed over options backdating by the U.S.…
Lawyers from Dorsey & Whitney will be scrambling to try to make up lost ground as the firm copes with an embarrassing situation in its small Toronto office, a Canadian…
Web classified company Craigslist has filed a countersuit against eBay that claims the auction company interfered with its business operations and infringed its trademark after acquiring a minority stake in…
Summer associate programs at BigLaw firms are famously a time for potential legal eagles to play as well as work. But work may occupy even less of their time this…
A Canadian partner of Dorsey & Whitney has reportedly been fired by the Minneapolis-based law firm, as an insider trading probe to which the lawyer has been linked continues.
Canadian and U.S. securities regulators are investigating possible insider trading in a probe focused on 11 Canadian takeovers during the past two years and a Minneapolis-based law firm that advised…
A federal appeals court has ruled that a law giving crime victims a say in the plea bargain process was violated when prosecutors forged a deal in the 2005 BP…
Lawyers at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom advising Yahoo used an unusual legal maneuver to give the company’s board more time to consider its response to Microsoft’s takeover bid.
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