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Attorney's Tax Shelter Tactics Brew Storm of Suits
Paul [email protected] YORK-James Haber made a business proposal to Paul M. Daugerdas in 1997. Haber is president of The Diversified Group Inc., a New York company that makes and sells tax shelters. At the time, Daugerdas was a partner in the tax department at Chicago's Altheimer Gray. The two had known each other since the early 1990s.Lawyers at Latham & Watkins have joined counsel for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu at Sidley Austin in a long-running battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission over its attempt to secure Chinese audit records.
O'Melveny & Myers Finds New Life
Two-and-a-half years after Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr. was elected chairman, Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers is not so much changed as transformed. Culvahouse, known to colleagues as "A.B.," has refashioned every facet of the firm, from management to practice structures, delivering a profit windfall and spurring changes to the 116-year-old firm's culture that many agree were long overdue.Venture Capitalist Sues Sidley Austin Over Tax Shelters
Add a new name to the list of wealthy former clients who have sued Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and tax lawyer R.J. Ruble over complaints about the use of dubious tax shelters. San Francisco venture capitalist Dixon R. Doll has sued in federal court, naming financial services firm Stars Holding Co., formerly known as MyCFO.com, and a host of others, including Sidley Austin. The suit alleges securities fraud, breach of contract and negligence regarding a tax-shelter product the defendants developed.Livent's General Counsel Settles with SEC
The former general counsel of Livent, the Canadian-based company that produced such Broadway hits as Ragtime, The Phantom of the Opera, Showboat and Fosse, settled civil charges brought by the SEC Thursday by agreeing not to practice before the SEC for five years and to pay a $25,000 fine. The civil injunctive complaint had accused the former GC of colluding with top executives at Livent to inflate the company's income by more than $24 million in Canadian dollars in 1996 and 1997.Opinions Approved for Publication
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