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June 07, 2013 |

BofA Audits Cybersecurity Practices of Firms

Richard Borden, the bank's assistant general counsel, said that Bank of America is "one of the largest targets in the world" for cyber attacks, and that law firms are "considered one of the biggest vectors that the hackers, or others, are going to go at to try to get to our information."
4 minute read
March 07, 2013 |

Circuit Rejects Antitrust Suit in Ruin of Market for Auction-Rate Securities

It was inevitable that the collapse of the $300 billion ARS market in 2008 would trigger securities litigation. And it did, but the ARS freeze also spawned a massive antitrust case, after a trio of plaintiffs firms cooked up a theory that the market's demise was triggered by an illegal boycott by major banks.
3 minute read
August 01, 2006 |

Putting On the Brakes

The government does not have unlimited power in corporate prosecutions, it turns out.
3 minute read
June 06, 2013 |

Outside Law Firm Cybersecurity Under Scrutiny

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is auditing the cybersecurity practices at its outside law firms, partly under pressure from government regulators.
4 minute read
July 03, 2006 |

Prosecutors draw fire in KPMG case

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan delivered a harsh rebuke to prosecutors last week for pressuring Big Four accountant KPMG to cut off legal fees for employees unwilling to cooperate in the largest tax fraud investigation in U.S. history.
2 minute read
June 23, 2008 |

Court Rebuffs Akin Gump's Bid for Discovery of Privileged Material

A Manhattan appeals court has narrowed the scope of discovery Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld can seek from the former hedge fund managers who are suing the law firm for fraud and legal malpractice. James McBride and Kevin Larson, the former principals of Veras Investment Partners, sued Akin Gump for more than $4 billion in damages last year, claiming the firm advised it that the "late trading" activities which made the fund a target of former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer were legal.
2 minute read
March 10, 2011 |

Expanded Supervisory Liability for In-House Lawyers

Richards Kibbe & Orbe's James Q. Walker, Daniel C. Zinman and Grant Mogan discuss an ALJ's disquieting holding that an in-house lawyer at a broker-dealer with no direct supervisory authority over a retail financial adviser was, nonetheless, that financial adviser's "supervisor" under the federal securities laws.
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