Melissa Maleske

July 27, 2007 | Inside Counsel

Global pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. Inc. promoted Kenneth Frazier to executive vice president and president of its global human health division.

By Melissa Maleske

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July 25, 2007 | Inside Counsel

At a July 23 conference, Southern District of New York Judge Lewis A. Kaplan refused to allow defense counsel for KPMG's former vice chairman of tax Richard Smith to resign from the case. "Having signed on for the voyage, they are on for the voyage unless relieved by the court,"...

By Melissa Maleske

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July 23, 2007 | Inside Counsel

New York State's Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a federal suit against ExxonMobil Corp. and ExxonMobil Refining and Supply Co. to compel the company to clean up remains of one of the largest oil spills in history. At least 17 million gallons of oil has leaked into in the ground...

By Melissa Maleske

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July 19, 2007 | Inside Counsel

The Sedona Conference has appointed retired Judge Gregory E. Mize as executive director of the non-profit legal research and educational institute.

By Melissa Maleske

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July 18, 2007 | Inside Counsel

A federal district court in New York struck down a Suffolk County, N.Y. law that mandated certain "big box" retailers provide employee health benefits.

By Melissa Maleske

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July 18, 2007 | Inside Counsel

ACC/Corpedia study shows companies are spending more on compliance and ethics training and risk assessment.

By Melissa Maleske

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July 18, 2007 | Inside Counsel

Four Arab-American employees of a Wilmington, Mass.-based FedEx Corp. facility have filed suit against the company, alleging supervisors repeatedly verbally abused them with a barrage of religious and ethnic slurs and restricted their delivery routes. In the lawsuit, filed June 29 in Middlesex Superior Court, the FedEx drivers say they...

By Melissa Maleske

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July 17, 2007 | Inside Counsel

Federal District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed charges related to fraudulent tax shelters against 13 former KPMG partners.

By Melissa Maleske

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July 17, 2007 | Inside Counsel

Reps. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Randy Forbes (D-Va.) introduced the bipartisan Attorney-Client Privilege Protection Act of 2007 in Congress July 12 with co-sponsorship from House Judiciary Committee leaders from both parties.

By Melissa Maleske

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July 11, 2007 | Inside Counsel

Federal prosecutors recommended July 6 that former Qwest Communications International CEO Joseph Nacchio serve more than seven years in prison and pay up to $19 million in fines. In April a jury found Nacchio guilty of insider trading for selling $52 million in stock when Qwest faced financial crisis--all the...

By Melissa Maleske

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