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September 28, 2007 |

Last Man Standing: Case Against Tax Lawyer Who Worked for KPMG Proceeds

In July, when Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that prosecutors had bullied KPMG over legal fees, the government's case against the accounting firm imploded, but the case against tax lawyer Raymond "R.J." Ruble may just be heating up. Ruble, a former partner at Brown & Wood (now Sidley Austin), faces trial in October on 43 counts of tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the IRS. He allegedly worked with KPMG to cook up and sell illegal tax shelters, and hid a portion of his earnings from his firm and the feds.
4 minute read
December 11, 2006 |

TL Opinion

Some Texas firms, such as Locke Liddell & Sapp, work hard to bring a happy holiday season to low-income children. And the Texas Trial Lawyers Association could not have found a more deserving recipient of its inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award than Broadus A. Spivey, a past president of TTLA.
2 minute read
February 03, 2012 |

NBCUniversal's GC stays in the limelight

Richard Cotton, the executive vice president and general counsel of NBCUniversal Media LLC, doesn't mind the limelight. He goes on talk shows like "Charlie Rose," testifies before Congress, and often meets journalists for breakfast at the caf overlooking the ice skating rink at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City.
3 minute read
June 21, 2013 |

Fair Housing Lawyer Indulges a Passion for Reading

Foster Corbin, who retired two years ago as executive director of Atlanta's Metro Fair Housing, a group that fights against discrimination in housing and lending practices, has had a lifelong passion for reading. Today the lawyer is one of the country's top book reviewers for Amazon.com, an endeavor that satisfies his passion and has made him new friends.
9 minute read
February 06, 2012 |

What SEC Policy Can Mean for In-Housers

Consider the curious case of Jay Lapine. Between 2003 and 2009, the onetime general counsel of McKesson HBOC Inc. successfully fought off two criminal indictments for financial reporting fraud. Then he settled civil charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission, agreeing to pay a $60,000 penalty and to not practice before the commission or act as an officer or director of a public company for five years. Sounds like a bitter pill to swallow.
14 minute read
December 08, 2009 |

The matter of Tiger Woods

The jokes and banter hit my e-mail last week on news of Tiger Woods' early-morning car crash and subsequent confession of "transgressions" and "personal failings." I was stunned by the news on Woods, who has maintained a clean image-for the most part-ever since he turned professional 13 years ago.
4 minute read
June 01, 2009 |

Right From the Start

John Ashcroft is forming a Republican government in exile.
3 minute read
April 10, 2006 |

Management guru 'Doe' wins partial victory over Regents

By Alyson M. Palmer, Staff Reporter"John Doe" is suing Georgia's Board of Regents over allegations that it breached a contract to give him the deanship of Georgia Tech's management school in 1997.The Court of Appeals of Georgia ruled March 29 that Doe had a contract with the Board of Regents, but the question of whether the board breached the contract should go to a jury-a partial victory for the plaintiff.
6 minute read
April 27, 2011 |

Midsize Pa. Firms Making Few Changes to Associate Hiring

Although large Pennsylvania firms have recently reported increased associate hiring, midsize firms say they aren't ramping up hiring because, frankly, they never had to ramp it down, having avoided most of the drastic changes that many large firms were forced to make in recent years.
5 minute read
September 03, 2013 |

Lawyers in Bias Suit Against FDNY Awarded $3.7 Million

The attorneys from Levy Ratner, Scott + Scott and the Center for Constitutional Rights have "worked tirelessly in the name of civil rights, and worked without remuneration - until now," Eastern District Judge Nicholas Garaufis wrote Friday, although he reduced the award from the more than $8 million requested.
5 minute read

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