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September 02, 1999 |

Deceased Partner's Misdeeds Haunt Florida Firm

Elliot Barnett has been dead more than a year, but his ghost may be coming back to haunt the the partners at the powerful Fort Lauderdale firm he built. Last week a three-judge panel from a Florida appellate court revived control of a 6-year-old suit that accused Barnett -- and his former firm -- of helping to wrest control of a struggling food company from the two men who created it.
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January 24, 2013 |

Mortgage Lending Enforcement Invokes Old Tool with New Theories

The Department of Justice is turning to the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA), which had been largely idle in the prosecutor's playbook for two decades. Counsel should be aware of FIRREA's basic provisions and the government's practices in this area, in particular, how the process differs from a criminal investigation, statute of limitations issues and recent government interpretations of the statute.
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September 30, 2004 |

Mutual Fund Trades: First a Probe, Now a Suit

Ever since New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer began investigating the mutual fund industry for "widespread illegal trading schemes," he's also been examining lawyers' advice to brokers. No lawyers or firms have been charged with wrongdoing, but this month two ex-brokerage house executives sued Piper Rudnick and a lawyer in its New York office for malpractice. Now under investigation, the former execs claim they were advised that the trades they brokered were perfectly legal.
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November 21, 2011 |

Passengers pay 6% more for Thanksgiving trips as jets fly full

Passengers are paying an average of 6 percent more this year for round-trip flights during the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday as airlines reduce their available seats to maintain pricing power.
4 minute read
September 19, 2012 |

NLRB General Counsel Facing Ethics Complaint Over Wal-Mart Stock

House Republicans are urging the U.S. Department of Justice to fully investigate National Labor Relations Board acting general counsel Lafe Solomon, based on a report about his handling of a social media case.
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May 19, 2003 |

Report of N.J. State Bar Association Ad Hoc Committee on Arbitration

Notice to the bar.
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Feds Ask Court Not to Suppress Wiretaps in Galleon Case
Publication Date: 2010-10-27
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In a post-hearing brief, prosecutors argue that any failure to disclose a previous SEC investigation of Raj Rajaratnam to the judge who approved the wiretap of his phones was, at most, an innocent mistake.

September 27, 2012 |

U.S. Supreme Court release orders list

The U.S. Supreme Court added six new cases to its docket, including a case asking whether the litigation exception to the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act protects lawyers who use car buyers' personal information for a potential class action.
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Four Judges Who Made a Mark
Publication Date: 2012-12-26
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The Litigation Daily covered lots of rulings by lots of judges in 2012, and sometimes they can all blur together. But a few judges stand out.

IndyMac's Ex-CEO Settles for $1 Million, Denies Liability for Lender's Collapse
Publication Date: 2012-12-14
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A week after winning a $169 million jury verdict in a case against three former IndyMac executives, the FDIC reached a settlement on Friday with Michael Perry, the failed mortgage lender's ex-CEO. In the settlement, Perry denies any liability for the problems that sank the mortgage lender, but agrees to pay $1 million to the FDIC, which also intends to recover another $11 million through the director and officer insurance policies that covered Perry.

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