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Apple Execs Seek Counsel In Face of Backdating Probe
For the last few months, the San Francisco U.S. Attorney's Office has been investigating whether Apple - like so many other Silicon Valley companies - changed the dates on stock option grants to employees in order to maximize executive payouts, according to lawyers familiar with the case.Firms fend off more malpractice actions
Law firms are having mixed success in dismissing a growing number of high-dollar malpractice and fraud claims brought over failed corporate deals. In the past few years, law firms have faced some of the most aggressive and expensive malpractice and fraud lawsuits over their corporate work, with several seeking more than $100 million in damages.Attorneys' Bonuses Increase With Profits
Associates at several big law firms across the country welcomed the new year with hefty bonuses that were moderately higher than the year before, a reflection of the legal industry's recent prosperity.Associate Salary War Moves to Midwest
The associate salary war has spread from the coasts to the middle of the United States, with law firms boosting starting pay to stay competitive in a market where demand is mounting and the supply of top-notch first-years is waning. Though Midwest law firms aren't matching the $135,000-plus salaries of the big firms on the East and West coasts, some, such as Denver-based Holme Roberts & Owen, are raising salaries by 17 percent, to $105,000, to stay competitive with national firms with local outposts.Milberg Partners Talk Pleas With Prosecutors
On Wednesday, four top-level Milberg Weiss partners spent an hour in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles trying to negotiate a deal. The session came amid rumors and media reports raising questions about the firm, its lead partner, Melvyn Weiss, and William Lerach, the former star partner whom prosecutors have been after for nearly eight years -- and who may be stepping away from the firm. There's speculation that a departure may be linked to a potential guilty plea from former partner David Bershad.Judge Upholds $77 Million Award To Hedge Fund Limited Partners
SEC Charges Brocade's Former CFO in Backdating Case
Internal strife at the SEC tanked a proposed settlement with Michael Byrd, the former CFO of Brocade Communications. Upset that a million-dollar deal proposed by the SEC's enforcement division wouldn't have barred Byrd from being an accountant at other public companies, the SEC's accounting division scuttled the agreement, said lawyers briefed on the case. Byrd was a key figure in the criminal trial that ended with a conviction of former Brocade CEO Gregory Reyes for backdating stock options.Supreme Court Raises Antitrust Bar
Antitrust litigators and scholars claim the high court's decisions in two cases of alleged anti-competitive practices are efforts to "catch up" with current economic thinking and "clean up" a lower court ruling that put at risk a widely used business arrangement.Trending Stories
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