By Matthew Hirsch | November 21, 2006
Just when you thought the season couldn't get any worse for the Oakland Raiders and team president Al Davis, it did. In a split opinion Friday, California's 3rd District Court of Appeal set
By Stuart M. Feinblatt and Monique Cofer | December 27, 2006
Product liability cases brought against pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers typically focus on failure-to-warn claims. But who decides whether the challenged warning is adequate? Judge
By Mark Hamblett | May 10, 2006
A prosecutor insisted Monday the government never demanded or implied that KPMG cut off legal fees for employees who refused to fully cooperate with its probe into allegedly illegal tax shelters.
By Sharon L. Caffrey | May 1, 2006
Litigation has become part of the business landscape for most companies. Companies that once faced little or no litigation now find themselves defending against "bet the company" litigation. Often
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By Irvin B. Nathan and Michael S. Lewis | October 18, 2006
Judge Lewis Kaplan's eloquent and eminently correct decision striking down the Justice Department's policy embodied in the "Thompson Memo" that pressures corporations, by threat of indictment, to c
By Angela Fiorentino-Rios | February 1, 2008
With fewer manufacturers and suppliers left solvent in the wake of the massive wave of asbestos suits, premises owners formerly considered "peripheral defendants" have become targets. In this n
By Christian R. Bartholomew | November 29, 2006
In the midst of the firestorm over backdating stock options, many questions have been asked about the role of boards of directors and specifically about directors who sit on compensation committees
By Peter M. Newman | February 17, 2006
Technology now permits the litigatorto bring trial practice into themodern age of remote controlsand liquid crystal displays. If you're notready to give up paper and Styrofoamexhibit boards, consid
By David Hechler | November 4, 2005
Could it have been worse for Mark Kipnis? At first the question seems ironic. In August federal prosecutors indicted Kipnis, the former CLO of Hollinger International Inc., for aiding and abet
By Jason McLure | December 13, 2006
Bending to pressure from Congress, a federal judge and a lobbying campaign by business and legal groups, the Justice Department announced a number of immediate changes to its corporate-fraud chargi
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