CORPORATE UPDATE
Free With Registration: Corporate Crime
'Brady' Obligation Extends Beyond Prosecutor's Office
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Audrey Strauss, a partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, writes that in drafting Brady and Rule 16 requests, defense counsel must presume the government will take a narrow view of its obligations as being limited to the prosecutors' own files and, therefore, to unearth any Brady material outside the prosecutor's office, specific requests should be made for materials in the files of other agencies that have had an investigation of the matter or are in any way supporting or assisting the prosecution of the criminal case.
SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT
Assertive Regulators, Increasing Layoffs Boost Employment Legal Disputes
Thursday, November 5, 2009
The Detroit office of the EEOC alone has 2,500 complaints pending before it?25 percent more than it had pending at the start of the recession in 2007. Welcome to the world of employers under siege. Discrimination complaints from their former and current employees are flooding into the EEOC and similar state agencies. Management lawyers are getting their desperate calls. And the lawyers anticipate that, by the end of 2009, the number of claims will look even worse.
New Deals
Lawyers on Major Transactions
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Berkshire Hathaway announced on Monday that it is acquiring 77 percent of the country's largest railroad, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, for $34 billion in cash and stock. Berkshire, the holding company for the assets of Warren Buffett, the world's second-richest man, already owns the other 23 percent. Also, toolmakers The Stanley Works and Black & Decker are merging in a $3.5 billion all-stock transaction.
Past Stories
New SEC Top Cop Sponsors Big Changes After Madoff Debacle
Thursday, October 29, 2009
New Deals
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Free With Registration: 2009 Proxy Season Review And a Look Ahead to 2010
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Free With Registration: Distressed Mergers and Acquisitions
Thursday, October 22, 2009
New Deals
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Internal Investigations May Follow Hedge Fund Insider-Trading Charges
Thursday, October 22, 2009
IRAs Barred From Owning Stock in S Corporations
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Free With Registration: New Deals
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Wine School's 'Sommelier Smackdown' Wrestles With Trademark Complaint
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Free With Registration: Turning Pre-Litigation Expenses Into Reimbursable Defense Costs
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Directors' and Officers' Liability
Thursday, October 8, 2009
New Deals
Thursday, October 8, 2009
High Court Docket Includes Broad Array of Business Cases
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Free With Registration: New Deals
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Secured Transactions
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Plaintiffs' Attorneys Mobilize to Soften New Pleading Standard
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Free With Registration: Corporate Governance
Thursday, September 24, 2009
New Deals
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wage, Hour Rules Ignored in Low-Pay Jobs, Report Finds
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Free: The End of Phony Deterrence? 'SEC v. Bank of America'
Thursday, September 17, 2009
New Deals
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Employment Law Issues
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Free With Registration: Companies in the Crossfire of Anti-Bribery Measures Abroad
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Ex-Toyota Lawyer Accuses It of Hiding Evidence in Lawsuits
Thursday, September 3, 2009


