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Morgan Stanley's Recipe for Disaster
What happened behind the scenes of the Sunbeam case that cost Morgan Stanley $1.6 billion? The record shows that the company and its in-house lawyers made some horrendous miscalculations and engaged in discovery misconduct -- although it's not clear to what extent those acts were intentional. What is clear: The case cost Morgan Stanley general counsel Donald Kempf Jr. his job and his relationship with his old firm, Kirkland & Ellis, which Kempf wound up firing as lead counsel on the Sunbeam case.Morgan Stanley's Recipe for Disaster
What happened behind the scenes of the Sunbeam case that cost Morgan Stanley $1.6 billion? The record shows that the company and its in-house lawyers made some horrendous miscalculations and engaged in discovery misconduct -- although it's not clear to what extent those acts were intentional. What is clear: The case cost Morgan Stanley general counsel Donald Kempf Jr. his job and his relationship with his old firm, Kirkland & Ellis, which Kempf wound up firing as lead counsel on the Sunbeam case.
U.S. Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling on Judicial Recusal
In a landmark ruling that could affect state judicial elections nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 8 said that due process can require a state judge to recuse when a party in a case before him or her has had a "significant or disproportionate" influence on placing the judge on the court through an outsized donation to the judge's election campaign. The case is Caperton v. Massey Coal Co.
Justices Issue Landmark Recusal Ruling
In a landmark ruling that could affect state judicial elections nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said that due process can require a state judge to recuse when a party in a case before him or her has had a "significant or disproportionate" influence on placing the judge on the court through an outsized campaign donation.
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Court Issues Landmark Recusal Ruling
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, introduces for the first time a constitutional standard into the debate over the influence of big money on judicial elections.
Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling on Judicial Recusal
In a landmark ruling that could affect state judicial elections nationwide, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that due process requires a state judge to recuse when a party in a case before him or her has had a "significant or disproportionate" influence on placing the judge on the court through a large campaign donation.
Romance raises conflict questions
WHEN SUE ELLEN Wooldridge stepped down last month from her job as the Justice Department's top environmental prosecutor, it wasn't her desire to return to the private sector that was notable, it was her timing. Days earlier, Wooldridge's boyfriend-oil and energy lobbyist J. Steven Griles-had been put on notice that he was a target of the federal public-corruption investigation involving convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.TRENDING STORIES
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