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Former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling declared he was "absolutely innocent" Monday, as he began to testify in his own defense in his fraud and conspiracy trial. The 52-year-old
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Native American law, long a well-established practice area west of the Mississippi, is gaining ground at eastern law firms as tribes displaced in the 19th century seek to reclaim ancestral lands --
By Stewart Weltman | November 21, 2007
Once your company becomes a defendant in a high-stakes commercial litigation matter -- be it a class action or one that pits your company against another -- it is exposed to a double-headed monster
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Intellectual property attorneys are used to bucking the odds when suing companies for patent infringement. But for James Gatto, a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, one court battle h
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The continuing drama relating to the demise of the Yukos Oil Co., Russia's leading oil company, has generated two U.S. bankruptcy proceedings that have raised some of the most interesting cross-bor
By Stephen M. Kramarsky | January 17, 2008
The Web may not be truly worldwide, but it is getting fairly close, and while this has created enormous opportunities, it is not without its challenges. Among the thorniest of these have bee
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Ford Motor Co. may have been spared a monster punitive damages verdict in an SUV rollover case because its lawyer was allowed to tell jurors about the carmaker's dire financial straits and ma
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By Sheri Qualters | December 1, 2008
Securities lawyers raced to help clients meet today's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission deadline for documents that allow public companies to immediately issue securities such as stocks, bond
By Shannon P. Duffy | December 20, 2005
The price of Merck & Co.'s stock took a tumble in June 2001 after the Wall Street Journal reported that a Merck subsidiary had over-reported its revenues by more than $4.6 billion.
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