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July 30, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

Do Women and Minority GCs Settle for Less?

Most general counsel in the Fortune 500 go for the gold when it comes to their compensation. White men, however, are going beyond the gold and grabbing the platinum. Do women and minority general counsel unwittingly settle for less? Data gleaned from Securities and Exchange Commission filings and conversations with experts who negotiate compensation for general counsel present a compelling case that the problem is commonplace.
6 minute read
October 01, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Canadian Deals

GM & Chrysler Bailouts; Sinopec/Addax; Viterra/ABB Grain
9 minute read
November 01, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Big Suits: Canadian

Nortel Restructuring; Morrow v. Zhang
10 minute read
December 12, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

Who Killed the Mass Torts Bonanza?

The power of the plaintiffs bar is on the wane in this country, and will be for a long time to come. To be sure, plaintiffs lawyers and mass torts aren't going to disappear. There will always be people injured by the products or actions of big corporations, and there's still money to be made representing them. But the bonanza -- the Wild West era in which mass torts was an unfettered frontier and plaintiffs lawyers seemed to have all the firepower -- is over.
30 minute read
October 01, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Fenwick & West Intellectual Property Bulletin – Fall 2009

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February 15, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

A Tale of Two Trials: Lessons to Learn From the Scrushy Story

With the help of his defense team, Richard Scrushy pulled off a surprising victory a year and a half ago on charges that he defrauded HealthSouth investors. The first CEO charged under the anti-fraud Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Scrushy walked. But he wasn't so lucky a second time; in a separate trial, he was convicted of bribing former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. A look behind the scenes provides valuable lessons in white-collar defense, and how trial tactics can help -- or hurt.
22 minute read
September 09, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

CanadianDeals

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November 01, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

DEALS AND SUITS

Harrah's
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September 01, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

DEALS AND SUITS

CitizensCharter One
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October 01, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Deals & Suits

Enterprise Products/Teppco; EMC/Data Domain; Validus/IPC; Centocor et al. v. Abbott Labs; Starr International v. AIG; Huntsman v. Credit Suisse et al.; Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Shell et al.
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