The president of the ABA is backing legislation that would bar prosecutors from pressuring companies to waive attorney-client privilege and cut off employees’ legal fees.
The former mayor of Newark, N.J., has been indicted on charges he used city credit cards to pay for more than $58,000 in personal expenses and sold city land to…
Updated: A federal jury has convicted media mogul Conrad Black of mail fraud for diverting money from Hollinger International Inc., the Associated Press reports.
A federal judge in San Francisco didn’t give much weight to a former lawyer’s bid for a reduced sentence that cited President Bush’s decision to commute the sentence of an…
Federal prosecutors in New York City announced today charges against 26 people in an alleged $200 million subprime mortgage scheme that involved 1,000 fraudulent loans.
Updated: A former partner at securities class-action firm Milberg Weiss & Bershad has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and cooperate with a probe into whether the firm paid kickbacks…
Federal prosecutors will file briefs this morning backing up their assertion that the former CEO of Brocade Communications acted with criminal intent when he authorized backdated stock options.
Recently released notes of conversations between federal prosecutors and lawyers for accounting firm KPMG reveal posturing and bluster as both sides pressed for a favorable resolution of tax shelter allegations.
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