By Craig Ball | June 12, 2006
The federal rules amendments governing discovery of electronically stored information have sailed through the U.S. Supreme Court and are now before Congress. Assuming passage, they'll be effective
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By David Kravets | December 26, 2006
A federal appeals court on Friday cut in half a $5 billion jury award for punitive damages against Exxon Mobil Corp. in the 1989 Valdez oil spill that smeared black goo across roughly 1,500 miles o
By Jay A. Dubow and Brian Slipakoff | June 28, 2006
Imagine the following scenario: an officer of a large, publicly traded corporation learns certain material, nonpublic and negative information about the health of the company. Knowing that fact, an
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By Larry Neumeister | January 10, 2006
U.S. employees of a German investment bank filed a $1.4 billion discrimination lawsuit Monday, portraying the company as a sexist playland where women were hired as "eye candy" and one was referred
By Joseph U. Metz and David M. Laigaie | July 27, 2007
The recent convictions and lengthy prison sentences for numerous corporate executives -- people who are worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars -- raise a simple question: Why didn't they fle
By Christy Burke | July 12, 2007
Properly securing physical data before, during and after litigation often can be eclipsed by concerns about online "virtual" security issues. Agreed -- firewalls, data encryption and password prote
By Ronni Fuchs and Michael R. Carroll | July 9, 2008
Biotechnology has had a profound impact on pharmaceutical development, perhaps most notably in the fields of cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and autoimmune disorders. Biologics have added major therapeu
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By Linda A. Johnson | November 14, 2005
The next Vioxx product-liability case to come to trial in New Jersey will likely be a tougher battle for manufacturer Merck & Co., which two weeks ago got its first courtroom victory in a
By Tresa Baldas | February 1, 2007
New state minimum-wage laws and a proposed hike in the federal minimum wage are likely to spark a new wave of wage-and-hour lawsuits, employment attorneys predict. Many new state laws
By Beth Bar | January 10, 2007
A shareholder in several closely held corporations has convinced a state judge overseeing the dissolution of the companies to reverse a special referee's valuation of the corporate shares.
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