After helping to put together a $1.25 billion deal for a national mobile telecommunications license in Iraq earlier this year, attorney Abdullah Mutawi, who heads the international telecommunications group at…
Corrected: Two New York City-based corporate partners of Weil Gotshal & Manges are moving to Hong Kong to open a new firm office there, and the firm also plans a…
Although the legal market is still strong and many major firms reportedly are competing hard for desired associates, some see a potential storm cloud on the horizon.
Stealing $50,000 doesn’t put the perpetrator on the FBI’s Most-Wanted list. But an alleged embezzlement of that amount by a condominium board president is big news in South Florida.
The controversial prosecution of a Connecticut lawyer under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for what he says was an unknowing destruction of evidence will proceed, a federal judge has decided.
A court-appointed trustee for creditors of Refco Inc. is now seeking $2 billion from defendants, including Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, in a lawsuit over a 2005 initial public offering…
Whistle-blower complaints brought under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are failing because claimants are “misusing the law as a club in garden-variety workplace disputes,” according to an expert in the field.
Once upon a time, U.S.-based corporations routinely hired American law firms to do virtually all of their legal work. But today, using cheap foreign lawyers—or even American lawyers in lower-paid…
Prosecutors are considering whether to charge a former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with a banana company’s payments to a Colombian paramilitary group, the Aug 16, 2007 1:19 PM CDT
It will cost at least $256 million to correct a massive data breach involving the theft of computerized information about 45 million credit and debit cards.
A grand jury has charged with involuntary manslaughter the Brewster, N.Y.-based company that provided the glue that is being blamed, in part, for the collapse of the “Big Dig” tunnel…
So-called dirty money is big business in Florida. And that means the state is a magnet for enforcement of federal laws banning banks from participating in money-laundering and similar schemes.