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The Legal Intelligencer

Financial Experts: Finding the Right Fit

The financial aspects of legal matters are often considerably important to lawyers and their clients. As such, lawyers frequently find themselves working with financial experts. Selecting a suitable expert and effectively working with that expert is an important skill for lawyers.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Jay Clayton, SEC Chair Nominee, Pulled in $7M From Sullivan & Cromwell Last Year

Benefitting from a client roster that includes big banks, British Airways and Volkswagen AG, longtime Sullivan & Cromwell partner Jay Clayton raked in $7.6 million in the year leading up to his nomination to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
20 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

PwC Defends Against Malpractice Claims as MF Global Trial Kicks Off

It wasn't Jon Corzine's major gambles on European sovereign debt that sank MF Global Ltd., an attorney charged Tuesday, it was accounting malpractice by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
12 minute read

Daily Business Review

Paramount Condos Get $285M Construction Loan

Paramount Miami Worldcenter gets two loans from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's bank and a New York fund.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Cravath Partner Allen Parker Is Named Wells Fargo GC

C. Allen Parker, a Cravath, Swaine & Moore partner in New York who has long represented big banks on corporate matters, was named Monday the next top lawyer for Wells Fargo & Co.
13 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Sale That Provides No Recovery for Junior Lienholders Approved

One of the most important tools in the debtor's toolbox of rights under the Bankruptcy Code is the ability to seek a sale of assets of the estate that are encumbered by liens, and deliver title free and clear of such liens.
17 minute read

Daily Report Online

Georgia Legal Community Mourns Loss of Lewis Horne Jr.

By | March 06, 2017
Mr. Horne was recognized as one of Atlanta's leading public finance lawyers and was a partner with the Arnall Golden Gregory law firm. He served his profession as the first minority lawyer on the board of directors of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and the public as an associate county attorney for Fulton County, as acting chief legal officer of the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority/Grady Health System and as past president of the National Minority Golf Foundation.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

D.C. Circuit's Brett Kavanaugh Doubles Down on Criticism of CFPB

Back in October, Brett Kavanaugh, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, wrote a 101-page majority ruling assailing the "massive, unchecked" power of the single director-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Kavanaugh recently got a second chance to weigh in—weeks before the full D.C. Circuit will take a fresh look at mortgage lender PHH Corp.'s claims. Writing in an unrelated case, Kavanaugh predicted the D.C. Circuit—or the U.S. Supreme Court—will find the structure of the agency unconstitutional.
13 minute read

New York Law Journal

New York State Tweaks Final Cybersecurity Regulations

Final rules exempt a few insurers from complying with New York's new state-mandated cybersecurity safeguards, but the regulations put into place this week provide few deviations from the plan first outlined last year by the state Department of Financial Services.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

GOP Wants to Give Trump Power to Block Agency Rules

Democratic lawmakers are up in arms over legislation introduced recently that would give the Trump administration the power to block rules proposed by independent agencies, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
5 minute read

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