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April 24, 2009 |

Flash training 2010 Test: Part 2a

27 minute read
September 04, 2007 |

Bankrupt Victims of Fraudulent Investment Schemes Could Be Barred From Recovery

Some of those involved with innovative and highly leveraged financial transactions will become insolvent due to investment fraud perpetrated by others. Innocent victims, who are eager to recover from all parties that participated in the fraud, may want to file a bankruptcy petition or to seek the appointment of a reciver to act on their behalf. But attorney Amy M. Tonti cautions that such victims, including creditors and investors, should first determine if the in pari delicto defense may bar recovery.
10 minute read
March 04, 2002 |

Court Orders State To Revisit Medicaid Reimbursement Appeals

New Jersey`s failure to use objective criteria in deciding hospitals` Medicaid reimbursement has prompted an appeals court to order reopening of two dozen cases, in which $351 million is at stake.
2 minute read
February 11, 2002 |

Does Enron Need a Trustee?

Two groups of Enron creditors are asking a bankruptcy judge to appoint a trustee, which would shift power away from the company and towards creditors.
5 minute read
July 27, 2004 |

Boston in Common

The first time Judith Droz Keyes attended a Democratic National Convention was in 1968, and she never got inside. At the time, her husband was in Vietnam, in the same squadron as John Kerry. Eight months later, Keyes' husband died in battle, spurring her to participate in the anti-war movement. That's where she met Kerry. Keyes, a Morrison & Foerster partner, is now attending her second Democratic Convention -- only this time she's inside, along with dozens of other attorney delegates.
7 minute read
October 09, 2007 |

Lender, Brokers Are Sued Over Subprime Crunch

Homeowners squeezed by the subprime mortgage crisis are turning up in New Jersey's federal court, where a half-dozen suits accuse lenders and mortgage brokers of promising favorable terms and then substituting costlier ones, which violates the federal Truth in Lending Act, as well as state and common law. A handful of similar suits have made headlines around the country. One blogger notes that if TILA suits succeed, then subprime mortgage investors could face trouble based on the law's rescission remedy.
5 minute read
December 10, 2003 |

People in the News

Movers and Shakers in the Philadelphia Legal Community.
3 minute read
September 09, 2011 |

$37.4 million in damages ordered against Cartier supplier

Swiss jewelers Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels have won a $37.4 million federal court judgment against a New York supplier of knockoff rings, bracelets and other luxury items - thanks to the defendant's failure to answer.
4 minute read
October 12, 2005 |

E-Discovery Tops List of In-House Worries

Electronic discovery is the bogeyman that haunts the sleep of corporate legal counsel, according to Fulbright & Jaworski's annual study of in-house trends. With steep fines and jail sentences being handed out to corporations and executives that violate the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate counsel are taking a closer look at policies guiding record-keeping and disclosure, but the process is increasing litigation burdens and costs.
3 minute read
March 07, 2006 |

Judicial Bias Claims Reach Calif. High Court

Attorneys arguing that California prosecutors routinely excluded Jews from death penalty juries have been asked a tricky question: Does it matter if the court record doesn't establish that any of the excused jurors were actually Jewish? The justices of the California Supreme Court posed that question in a habeas case last month, and they're going to want answers during oral arguments Wednesday. It's a new wrinkle in a case that has fascinated the legal community since 2004.
5 minute read

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