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When Samuel Gillespie joined Unocal Corp. as general counsel in October 2003 with a mandate to cut legal costs, he says he could see right away that litigation expenditures were "extraor
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Attorneys representing the owners of a business who were sued for environmental violations have petitioned the California Supreme Court to overturn a recent appellate decision they claim is an
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It's been almost four years since Lawrence A. Slovensky left his position as a litigation partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge to join the in-house legal department of a class="linelink" href="h
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Allegations by whistleblowers and plaintiffs lawyers that State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. used a "one-size-fits-all" engineering report to deny policyholders' Katrina-related claims are stirring
By Beth Bar | December 10, 2007
How much control should the "owners" of U.S. corporations exercise? That was one of the underlying questions as attorneys, academics and investors gathered for a conference on shareholder activism.
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As anti-money laundering enforcement has become an international priority, financial institutions around the world increasingly rely on lawyers to help them navigate stringent anti-money laundering
By Louis Pechman | December 16, 2005
It is generally recognized that employers are free to set reasonable dress codes and grooming standards that are business-justified and applied in a nondiscriminatory manner. In the c
By Bruce Olson | August 17, 2007
By now, you undoubtedly have mastered the new electronic data discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. You keep upwith the rapidly evolving case law. You probably evenknow the
By Brian H. Corcoran and Mandie Landry | August 24, 2007
When they are negotiating the terms of commercial contracts, companies frequently assume that inclusion of an arbitration clause is a no-brainer. After all, what business wants to invite costly, ti
By Alyson M. Palmer | October 5, 2006
A federal appellate panel has upheld a decision to let McDonald's Corp. out of a lawsuit over an incident in which a restaurant employee was strip-searched at the instructions of a caller posing as
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