By Joe Crea | May 1, 2007
Cass Wheeler, the CEO of the venerable American Heart Association, has a score to settle with the tobacco lobby.His father was a heavy smoker. And while his dad passed away from cardiova
By Jessie Seyfer | October 10, 2007
Five months before a second-year associate searched a Qualcomm witness's laptop during trial and found important e-mails that had not been turned over as discovery, the company's senior outside law
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The Securities and Exchange Commission brought the second-highest number of enforcement actions in agency history in fiscal year 2008, including filing the highest number of insider trading cases.
By Vahe Tazian and William H. Volz | July 24, 2007
The five-year anniversary of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 comes up on July 30. The act sought to restore investor confidence after financial scandals had deeply soiled the reputations of both Ame
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By Ken Thomas | October 31, 2006
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges Monday against Delphi Corp. and several of its former top executives, accusing the auto parts supplier of committing accounting fraud to hide th
By Michael Booth | March 2, 2006
Outside counsel who take on corporate duties with potential impact upon third parties may be considered corporate agents for purposes of indemnification, an appeals court ruled Feb. 22. The
By Alison Frankel | September 15, 2008
Chevron's Ecuadorean quagmire got deeper and dirtier Friday, with the announcement that two longtime lawyers for the company have been indicted by the Ecuadorean government. In-house lawyer
By Ann Woolner | January 12, 2005
For those who hoped to see errant corporate executives trotted out for trial, 2004 was a good year. In fact, it was historic. Never before have so many high-level executives of publicl
By Mary Pat Gallagher | September 7, 2007
Unions and health insurers cannot pursue a nationwide class action consumer fraud case for billions of dollars spent on the painkiller Vioxx, the New Jersey Supreme Court says. The ju
By Sheri Qualters | August 5, 2008
Lawyers say a trade group's new sales and marketing code of ethics for pharmaceutical companies that's designed to help companies avoid government investigations and prosecutions will trigger exten
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