By Sheri Qualters | May 21, 2009
Six so-called prepackaged bankruptcies, which companies prepare with creditors to take effect after bankruptcy, were filed in the first quarter of 2009, compared with four in 2008, according to cre
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By Stephanie Stoughton | February 27, 2006
A judge ended a hearing over a request for an injunction against the maker of the handheld BlackBerry device without issuing a decision Friday.During the hearing, NTP Inc., a small patent ho
By Marcia Coyle | September 12, 2007
The Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in the Prince William Sound nearly 20 years ago. But the complex legal fallout from the ensuing environmental disaster and a record punitive damages award
By Shannon P. Duffy | December 12, 2006
CIGNA Corp. has agreed to pay $93 million to settle a securities fraud suit that accused the company of hiding the fact that it was experiencing significant problems in an overhaul of its computer
By Leigh Jackson | December 8, 2008
O2 has revamped its legal division, with the telecom giant appointing its first-ever European legal panel and scrapping its general counsel role for the region. Clifford Chance, Herbert Smi
By Beth Bar | September 18, 2006
Former New York Stock Exchange Chairman Richard A. Grasso received two decisions in New York courts Thursday that affect the course of the excessive pay lawsuit filed against him by Attorney Genera
By Tom Schoenberg | May 11, 2005
The hourly tab for a tax lawyer: $825. A corporate litigator: $810. A pack of law clerks and summer associates: $240 an hour, each. And that's just at Willkie Farr & Gallagh
The Associated Press
By Ben Nuckols | October 2, 2006
A Denny's manager who had a leg amputated was told she couldn't return to work because she posed a safety risk and was fired after she used up her medical leave, according to a lawsuit filed in fed
By Julie Kay | November 13, 2007
A corporation's worst nightmare, famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has unflinchingly taken on asbestos companies, Big Tobacco and scads of insurance companies in the wake of Hurrican
The Corporate Counselor
By Scott E. Gross | August 8, 2008
Over the last few years, employers who have faced claims of race, gender, age or other prohibited discrimination typically find themselves also litigating separate and distinct claims of retaliatio
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