Prosecutors and securities officials are increasingly targeting companies for paying bribes to obtain foreign contracts, bringing more than double the number of cases this year than the number filed in…
Although tentative steps are being made toward creating U.S.-style plaintiffs litigation opportunities in Europe, including class actions and shareholder cases, there are still substantial barriers to pursuing such cases there.
It isn’t just people with poor credit who are now suffering in the aftermath of a subprime lending spree. And, although a federal government plan is supposed to be announced…
Attorneys at major law firms in the United Kingdom are notably unhappy about their inability to open offices in India, and will continue to press for permission to establish a…
Echoing a similar holding by a federal judge concerning another company executive, a special master in Kansas state court has found that a utility company wrongly refused to pay $2.46…
The last few months have not been good ones for the global banking industry, as rapidly rising mortgage defaults sparked a credit crisis. But the situation may get even worse…
Securities class-action lawyer William Lerach, who pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks to lead plaintiffs, takes aim at sweet deals for corporate CEOs who lose shareholder money in a commentary published…
CORRECTED: The job is similar, but the pay is different: temp work, in something akin to document review, without a law degree, is dull, thankless work that earns $10 an…
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