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October 31, 2011 | Legaltech News

Attorneys Rachel Tausend and Josh Dutill highlight key requirements in identifying, collecting, and producing ESI for the SEC or FINRA during an investigation.

By Rachel Tausend and Josh Dutill

8 minute read

February 24, 2010 | Daily Report Online

OMAHA, Nebraska AP - Billionaire Warren Buffett will likely use a few lines in his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders to welcome new investors the company acquired along with BNSF railroad. But he'll also have a busy year at the company's 80-odd subsidiaries to explain when the letter is released this weekend.

By JOSH FUNK

5 minute read

December 18, 2001 | Law.com

Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse First Boston have negotiated an unusual market-out provision in their $5.5 billion bridge loan to EchoStar Communications for its merger with Hughes Electronics Corp. According to sources, the lenders have sole discretionary power to walk away from the loan if they deem the debt markets illiquid for the deal in the 16 business days after EchoStar and Hughes receive regulatory approval.

By Josh Kosman

4 minute read

November 21, 2005 | National Law Journal

A Sarbanes-Oxley compliance reviewer reflects on the difficulties of carrying out the new testing requirements for companies.

By Josh Platt

9 minute read

May 06, 2008 | Daily Report Online

After ConAgra Foods' board slashed the company's dividend by 34 percent as part of a restructuring plan, a few shareholders suggested the board should also feel the pain and slash its own pay by roughly one-third.Not surprisingly, the suggestion shareholder Don Hudgens made during the 2006 annual meeting, didn't fly even though former ConAgra chief executive Mike Harper supported that idea.

By JOSH FUNK

6 minute read

June 07, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Moving to tamp down a public uproar spurred by the disclosure of two secret surveillance programs, the nation's top intelligence official is declassifying key details about one of the programs while insisting the efforts to collect America's phone records and the U.S. internet use of foreign nationals overseas were legal, limited in scope and necessary to detect terrorist threats.

By Donna Cassata and Josh Lederman

8 minute read

July 18, 2007 | Law.com

A judge had valid reasons for sentencing a 5-foot-1 sex offender to probation, even though she cited the offender's height as part of her rationale, the Nebraska Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The trial judge's sentence prompted national criticism, but the appeals court found that the "brief mention" of the defendant's stature was in reality "but a minor point."

By Josh Funk

2 minute read

November 01, 2008 | Legaltech News

Lawyers are finally embracing mobile tools, new ABA survey shows.

By Catherine Sanders Reach & Josh Poje

4 minute read

September 28, 2007 | Law.com

An Omaha man has sued Mattel Inc., saying the toymaker stole his copyrighted ideas for a line of planetary toys. The federal lawsuit says the Planet Heroes toys Mattel is selling through its Fisher-Price division are strikingly similar to the Planet Pals and Earth Rangers that Joseph Ottis developed over the past decade.

By Josh Funk

2 minute read

June 01, 2009 | New York Law Journal

It's the human response to the presence of chicken and oil, but the question of what 'fried' means is just the beginning of the complexities.

By Josh Ozersky

10 minute read