By Jonathan M. Cohen and John P. Sheahan | September 15, 2006
The recent wave of investigations and lawsuits involving the alleged backdating of stock options promises to become one of the most widespread corporate crises in recent years. As these allegations
By Sheri Qualters | August 21, 2007
As cases against multinational corporations for their involvement in international human rights violations percolate through appeals courts, one company's recent victory in an Alabama federal court
By Amanda Bronstad | February 2, 2007
A new crop of litigation is fermenting across the nation in a second round of challenges to state shipping laws that limit direct sales of wine to consumers. New suits and amended compl
By Pamela A. MacLean | November 27, 2006
The chief executive of high-tech Sun Microsystems Inc. thinks it is high time Web logs -- called "blogs" -- get their due from the Securities and Exchange Commission by allowing company blog posts
By Amanda Bronstad | June 16, 2006
In litigation closely watched by the national restaurant industry, McDonald's Corp. is seeking to consolidate about a dozen lawsuits alleging that the company provided misleading information to con
By Pamela A. MacLean | October 31, 2008
Four women, all top personnel managers at Dell Inc., accused the computer giant in a job discrimination class action filed on Wednesday with dispropo
By Lawrence D. Finder and Ryan D. McConnell | March 27, 2007
The U.S. Department of Justice's revised corporate charging policy, which was named after Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, was unveiled in December 2006. In the wake of its predecessor documen
By Shannon P. Duffy | January 5, 2007
The final two defendants in a class action antitrust suit against the top manufacturers of automotive refinishing paint have agreed to pay $39 million to settle claims that they participated in a p
By Todd Nunn | January 20, 2006
Metadata is information about, and contained within, a document. It describes how, when and by whom the document was created, accessed, modified and formatted. Metadata is frequently not vie
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By Linda A. Johnson | August 31, 2005
Beleaguered drug maker Merck & Co.'s request to postpone the next trial over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx was turned down Monday by the New Jersey judge presiding over the case. Superior C
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