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EDD Survey: The Third Report

By George Socha & Thomas Gelbmann | August 29, 2005

Results are in from the third annual "Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey" and, not surprisingly, the market for electronic discovery services and software continues to expand by leaps

National Law Journal

Spinach Suits Have Familiar Taste to Dole

By Lynne Marek | October 5, 2006

Fighting lawsuits filed by sickened spinach-eaters may seem like familiar territory for Dole Food Co. Inc. The Westlake Village, Calif.-based food giant has been named as a defendant, along

New York Law Journal

Post-Transaction Review of Newly Acquired Entity

By Bridget Rohde | October 1, 2007

A previous article proposed employing the proactive investigative approach used by law enfo

New York Law Journal

The Risk of Using Independent Contractors

By Richard J. Reibstein, John A. Nixon, Dan A. Schulder, Stuart A. Shorenstein and Tiffany Raspberry | May 29, 2008

The legal landscape involving independent contractors has dramatically and swiftly changed. For decades, legal challenges to an employer's use of independent contractors were infrequent, and many c

New York Law Journal

Corporate Liability Under the Alien Tort Claims Act

By Faith E. Gay and J. Noah Hagey | October 25, 2007

In the last decade, a veritable "who's who" of international businesses, including Pfizer, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler, Texaco, UBS, Yahoo, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Bridgestone/Firestone, Chiquita, Chev

Corporate Counsel

Former HBOC General Counsel's Good and Bad News: Partial Acquittal, Retrial Likely

By Sherry Karabin | January 2, 2007

Jay Lapine -- one of the first GCs to be indicted in the recent wave of corporate scandal -- has now become one of the few to be at least partially acquitted. In November a San Francisco jury c

National Law Journal

'Prepack' Bankruptcy for Big Three Has Potholes

By Robbin L. Itkin and Katherine C. Piper | February 18, 2009

Given the economic crisis and its profound impact on the U.S. auto industry, the phrase &qu

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