Amanda Bronstad

April 07, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Two senior executives of a California company paid more than $5 million in bribes to officials of Mexico's electricity provider in exchange for lucrative contracts, it was alleged during opening statements in a trial under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

September 22, 2008 | Legaltech News

Law professors and publishing executives plan to meet in Seattle to discuss making legal casebooks available electronically, on handheld devices such as Amazon's Kindle and the Sony Reader. Concerns include copyrights and the ability to protect electronic casebooks from piracy.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

January 08, 2010 | Law.com

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr is no longer representing Angelo Mozilo in the SEC's lawsuit against the founder of Countrywide Financial Corp. In June, the SEC charged Mozilo, former President and COO David Sambol and former CFO Eric Sieracki with securities fraud. The SEC claims that all three misled investors into believing that the California-based mortgage lender was in good financial health, even as they discussed in internal e-mails numerous problems with its riskier loans.

By Amanda Bronstad

2 minute read

October 25, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Amanda Bronstad | The National Law Journal

5 minute read

May 06, 2011 | Law.com

Small law firms are carving out a share of the China market by catering to a burgeoning clientele of small and midsize enterprises. Many of the boutiques get business because of their lawyers' personal backgrounds in Asia or relationships they have established there.

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read

September 01, 2009 | Law.com

Insurance companies for Broadcom have agreed to pay $118 million to settle allegations of stock options backdating, in the second-largest such deal in a derivative action to date, according to plaintiffs counsel. The proposed deal involves several current and former officers and directors of Broadcom, including former general counsel David Dull. The defendants have denied wrongdoing under the proposed settlement, which, if approved, would stay shareholder claims in a related class action against Broadcom.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

June 20, 2007 | Law.com

A federal judge has declined to approve a $49 million settlement with BAR/BRI, owner of the nation's largest provider of bar review courses, citing concerns about incentive awards paid to some class representatives. Several lawyers had said the awards signaled potential "collusion" between plaintiffs counsel and class representatives. At Monday's hearing, more than a dozen lawyers objected to the settlement, including the son of Eliot Disner, an ex-McGuireWoods partner who brought the case in 2005.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

September 13, 2010 | Law.com

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill will make waves at two upcoming legal conferences. In New Orleans, the 17th Annual Admiralty Symposium will feature Feinberg Rozen name partner Michael Rozen, who will discuss the criteria for weighing claims against the $20 billion Gulf Coast Claims Facility, financed by BP. At the Conference on Criminal Enforcement of Environmental Laws in Washington, D.C., partners from Venable, which represents Transocean, will discuss enforcement actions following the BP spill.

By Amanda Bronstad

2 minute read

April 06, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal jury in New York has found that Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. was not liable in the first sudden acceleration case to go to trial.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

November 01, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Among the public, the battle for control of Congress has overshadowed some hard-fought races for governor, attorney general and other state offices. Not for lawyers. In this election, they have poured big campaign contributions into lower-level races, hoping to influence the levers of state government.

By David Ingram and Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read