By Georgene M. Vairo | June 29, 2007
One might think that a tobacco company would steer as clear as possible from the federal government. The U.S. Justice Department brought a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act action
By Andrew Longstreth | September 13, 2007
This wasn't how it was supposed to go for Biovail Corp., Canada's largest publicly traded drugmaker. Biovail was supposed to be the victim, the ill-used dupe of powerful hedge funds, analysts and b
By Alison Frankel | December 12, 2006
The power of the plaintiffs bar is on the wane in this country, and will be for a long time to come. You won't hear many tort reformers admit it. They've done too good a job demonizing trial
By Ben Hallman | February 15, 2007
It is a warm fall morning in Birmingham, and Donald Watkins is in town for a meeting. The hotel-like condition of his office in the back of a bank he founded suggests that this a rare occurrenc
By Susan Beck | December 6, 2006
Larry Sonsini was about to have a bad day. It was the morning of Sept. 28, and Sonsini was preparing to testify before Congress about his role in the Hewlett-Packard Co. boardroom spying scanda
By Andrew Longstreth | March 28, 2007
One day late last March, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie summoned a pair of young prosecutors to his seventh-floor office in downtown Newark. After weeks of brooding and two long meet
By Audrey Strauss | July 10, 2007
The complaints of corporate criminal practitioners about the current legal regime governing corporate criminal liability are like our complaints about the weather: no one ever does anything about i
By Jenna Greene | March 31, 2009
Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the roles of certain FTC lawyers in the case. As corporate mergers go, the purchase of
By Andrew Longstreth | February 2, 2005
In 2001 an anonymous letter arrived at the Securities and Exchange Commission. The letter raised questions about accounting practices at Symbol Technologies Inc., and cited two fraudulent tran
By Daphne Eviatar | November 1, 2007
In his summer of discontent, there were few days of undiluted glory for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and July 17 was no exception. Just six weeks before he resigned, Gonzales stood before hun
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