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Florida's 4th District Court of Appeal threw out one of the largest verdicts in U.S. history Wednesday when it overturned a $1.58 billion judgment against financial behemoth Morgan Stanley.T
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As has been widely publicized, on May 16 a Florida state court jury awarded $604.3 million in compensatory damages and later an additional $850 million in punitive damages to Coleman Holdings
By Beth Bar | September 22, 2006
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has paved the way for shareholders to gain access to company proxy statements in order to initiate contested board of director elections. The court's d
By Mike McKee | November 15, 2006
Government agencies with internal legal teams were put on notice Monday that ex parte communications between their staff prosecutors and decision makers are no longer allowed.That decision b
By Martin C. Daks | November 28, 2006
PharmaNet, a Princeton, N.J., clinical drug development company once under U.S. Senate investigation for its treatment of human test subjects, now faces an avalanche of shareholder litigation.
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There is no easier way for a company to turn a small gain into a multidimensional catastrophic loss than by violating the a target="new" href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/31/usc_sec_31_0
By Leigh Jones | August 17, 2005
Claiming "zero tolerance" for sexual harassment is a common way for law firms to declare their hard-line approach if such a problem occurs within their own organizations. But a lawsuit filed b
By Amanda Bronstad | February 6, 2009
President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday a $500,000 cap on senior executive pay for companies receiving substantial federal bailout money. In one of the more aggressive moves to rein in ex
By Brian Katkin | February 3, 2009
Some 200 general counsel and human resource directors packed into a conference room at the National Press Club on Jan. 27 for a horror story. The tale -- told chillingly by lawyers from Eps
By Anthony Lin | January 12, 2007
The former partners of defunct New York law firm Hall Dickler are facing a legal malpractice suit for failing to advise a company to file for bankruptcy earlier than it did. The creditors' c
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