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Experts eye impact of 'honest services' ruling
Neither a convicted con artist like Bernard Madoff nor a jailed chief executive like WorldCom Inc.'s Bernard Ebbers will benefit from Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the federal "honest services" law used by prosecutors to target corporate wrongdoing, lawyers said. Siding with former Enron Corp.Google's own executives rate the shares 'sell'
WONDERING WHY your investment in Google Inc. has lost 18 percent of its value since the shares peaked at about $475 in January Relentless stock sales by the Internet search company's executives might be to blame.Since Feb. 14, 2005, the expiration date of the biggest and final restriction on insider sales following Google's initial public offering, managers have dumped a truckload of stock.Kindle losing profit battle, but may win the war
Save banks by slashing JPMorgan's dividend
Memo to JPMorgan Chase Co.: Your dividend needs to go. For all the complaints that U.S. banks aren't lending enough money, the bigger problem may be they're giving too much away. Here we are amid the greatest banking crisis in 80 years, and some of the biggest, purportedly shrewdest banks keep acting as though they can spend their way into solvency by plying shareholders with outsized quarterly checks.Lawyers Find There's Always a Bigger Fish
Meredith [email protected] established business litigators from midsize Atlanta firms with deep roots in the city's legal community have left for the local offices of large national firms. Walter H. Bush Jr. has decamped from Arnall Golden Gregory, where he headed the business litigation team, for the local office of Schiff Hardin, a Chicago-based firm that started an Atlanta operation two years ago.Expatriate lawyers leave Tokyo as firms react to radiation threat
Expatriate lawyers have joined the exodus of foreigners from radiation-threatened Tokyo, and a number of international law firms have temporarily relocated staff or closed offices.Six days after being rocked by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a devastating tsunami that killed several thousand people, Japan remains in a state of crisis over the potential release of high levels of radiation from critically damaged nuclear reactors.Build relationships, build business
Do you know what your college classmates are doing today Alex Kaufman is a second-year student at Emory University School of Law. He is a natural people person who mixes easily. I asked him this question and discovered that his "natural" people skills are something he's cultivated since he was a child at summer camp.Former officer accused of defrauding 9/11 fund
WASHINGTON AP - A retired U.S. Navy commander awarded for his service during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks went on trial Tuesday on charges that he used an old injury to get money from the victims' compensation fund.In opening arguments, a federal prosecutor accused Charles Coughlin and his wife, Sabrina, of stealing $331,034 from the fund by filing a false claim saying that the injury was from the terrorist attack.Women are antidote to China's old boys' club
It's a man's world. That's something, for better or worse, women in Asia can tell you. Japan and South Korea underutilize women with little regard for how it constrains growth. The Philippines sends all too many of them abroad as domestics to ship money home and support an inefficient economy. A preference for boys in India and elsewhere leads to elective abortion of female fetuses.Trending Stories
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