Litigation

New York Law Journal

Criminal Prosecutions Predicted to Surge Over Financial Crisis

By Noeleen G. Walder | October 9, 2008

With public anger reaching a boiling point over plunging stock prices and Wall Street "greed," white-collar defense attorneys are preparing for an inevitable surge in criminal prosecution

Exon-Florio Amendment Now U.S. Law

By Edward F. Gerwin Jr. and Lawrence Kiern | September 7, 2007

This summer, President Bush signed legislation reforming the interagency process for reviewing foreign acquisitions of U.S. corporate entities, about a year and a half after a public firestorm erup

New York Law Journal

Self-Detection: So Key, So Difficult

By Laura A. Brevetti | July 14, 2009

When it comes to white-collar crime, popular opinion today is to view American corporations solely as perpetrators. However, this public ire ignores the documented reality that corporations and ins

The Legal Intelligencer

'Sticky' 3M Antitrust Lawsuits Finally Losing Their Grip

By Shannon P. Duffy | January 23, 2007

With a proposed settlement worth nearly $40 million, office supply giant 3M is poised to close the books on more than a decade of litigating antitrust suits. In a series of suits, a comp

National Law Journal

Computer Voir Dire

By Tresa Baldas | September 6, 2006

A new computer software program that helps weed out biased jurors is raising a dilemma for lawyers: Should they go with their gut instinct when picking jurors, or listen to a computer?Do

Winemaker Kirkland Knightsbridge Withers in Bankruptcy

By David Elman | September 29, 2006

Kirkland Knightsbridge is set to head to court today for an interim cash collateral hearing.The Napa, Calif.-based winemaker, which does business as Kirkland Ranch Winery, seeks to tap $1.14

Corporate Counsel

Piracy on Fast-Forward

September 7, 2007

Greg Goeckner sounds almost wistful in describing the old days of movie piracy. When he became an in-house lawyer at the Motion Picture Association of America in 1994, the threat was from bootleg v

The Associated Press

Judge Tosses $50M Compensatory Award in Vioxx Case as Excessive

By Janet McConnaughey | August 31, 2006

The $50 million compensatory damage award in a federal Vioxx case this month was "grossly excessive," and a new trial must be held to decide how much drugmaker Merck & Co. must pay a retired F

National Law Journal

Halliburton and KBR to Pay $579 Million in Penalties in Nigerian Bribe

By Marcia Coyle | February 12, 2009

The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission, in joint enforcement actions, have won the second-largest penalties -- totalling $579 million -- for violation of the federal F

National Law Journal

Private, Not Privatized

By Peter Geier | May 9, 2007

Name and title: John J. "Jay" Welsh, executive vice president and general counsel Age: 66 The talking cure: JAMS is the largest private alternative dispute resolu