A prominent Democratic political fundraiser has been convicted by a Texas jury on 14 of the 22 counts he faced in an unusual criminal trial for allegedly practicing law when…
Contending that a Swiss bank’s plan to name client names to U.S. regulators as part of a $780 million settlement of a criminal tax probe violates Switzerland law requiring secrecy,…
A top London-based international law firm has announced that, in response to unprecedented market conditions, it plans to cut up to 250 lawyers (including perhaps 47 partners) and…
The Proskauer Rose lawyer who disavowed everything he had told authorities about an investment firm affiliated with billionaire Robert Allen Stanford was acting under a provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Some fired associates are firing back with suits against their law firms, highlighting the need for firms to plan and follow the law when laying off workers.
It was a standard legal representation up to the point of receiving a $4,000 settlement check in a homeowner’s insurance case, according to two clients of Shelbyville, Tenn., attorney Burt…
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused a Texas investment manager in an $8 billion fraud just days after his lawyer raised a red flag by disaffirming everything he had told…
In the latest of a series of embarrassing incidents concerning the British government’s loss of confidential information, a solicitor with a well-known United Kingdom law firm apparently had his briefcase…
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