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Justice and SEC Offer Guidance for Navigating Foreign Bribery Statute
Ending months of speculation among corporate officials and white-collar defense attorneys, the U.S. Justice Department and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month published a much anticipated guide that attempts to clarify key provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Keeping Heads Turning in Trenton
No lawyer in New Jersey has created more work or more headaches for other lawyers in the last year than Attorney General Peter Harvey, which is why he's the Law Journal's Lawyer of the Year. The award goes not to the attorney who is most successful or most popular. Rather, it recognizes the lawyer who has most affected the lives of his or her fellow practitioners, for better or worse. Or both.
Communities find creative ways to collect homeowner fees
Like many homeowners associations, Waterstone II is struggling to collect maintenance fees from its property owners. HOAs have discovered they have little power to force homeowners to pay up.
Ex-Client Sues Gordon & Rees, Two Lawyers
A former client has sued Gordon & Rees, the managing partner of the firm's Dallas office and a firm senior counsel, alleging they changed his hourly attorney-fee agreement to a contingency contract to benefit the defendants, who successfully settled his employment case. Dallas office managing partner Robert Bragalone (pictured) says the former client's allegations are false.
Trials? JDSU GC Says Bring 'Em On
Under GC Matthew Fawcett, JDS Uniphase has gone to trial facing massive exposure twice in the last three years and defensed it each time.Whistleblower Suit Filed Against OAG By Former Employee
A former assistant attorney general alleges in a whistleblower suit filed May 18 that the Texas Office of the Attorney General fired her in 2008 for reporting that two OAG attorneys in the Dallas child support office tried "to suborn perjured testimony" from her about a Dallas judge.Use the Internet in Your Daily Practice
A dozen Web sites of interest to lawyers have emerged in recent months, including new sites that help locate litigation consultants and revamped government and public-interest sites.Corporations Never Intended as Electoral-Process Participants
On Jan. 21, a 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court set back the United States electoral process to the 18th century in its decision in Citizens United v. FEC. The five self-styled "strict constructionists" stood the First Amendment on its side, diluted the strength of our citizens' control of the electoral process and empowered the vast combination of financial giants we call private corporations.Trending Stories
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