Sign in to follow
Search Results

0 results for 'Halliburton'

You can use to get even better search results
December 19, 2007 |

No-Show Iraqi Contractor Hit With $4.9M Default Judgment

When Lt. Col. Dominic R. Baragona died in a traffic accident on an Iraqi highway in 2003, few would have foreseen that his death would prompt a federal judge in Atlanta to levy a $4.9 million judgment against a U.S. military contractor in Kuwait. The wrongful death suit has become a national case of first impression regarding the responsibilities of a foreign military contractor when an employee's negligence results in an American soldier's death, said Steven R. Perles, attorney for the Baragona family.
13 minute read
Toyota Economic Damages Smackdown: New Toyota Filing Says There's No Such Thing as Economic Damages for Non-Defective Products
Publication Date: 2010-11-02
Practice Area:
Industry:
Court:
Judge:
Attorneys:
For plaintiff:
For defendant:
Case number:

A class of Toyota owners says the cars have lost value since last winter's recall for sudden acceleration, so they deserve damages. Toyota's Alston & Bird lawyers, however, assert plaintiffs can't collect unless there's something wrong with their cars--and most class members can't show any defect.

August 07, 2009 |

Have Economic Times Expanded Reach Of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?

Stephanie J. Meltzer, a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, and Christopher E. Tierney, an associate in the firm's Washington, D.C. office, write that knowledge of the FCPA and its prohibitions has become essential to those wishing to do business in foreign markets or with foreign governments. Indeed, with corporate criminal and civil fines routinely in the tens of millions of dollars, and the imposition of a record-setting aggregate fine, in December 2008, of $1.6 billion against Siemens AG, they argue that the FCPA should have the attention of multinational corporate boards and in-house counsel worldwide.
11 minute read
October 04, 2010 |

Option Exercises and Stock Vesting

2 minute read
BP Cuts $1.1 Billion Deal with MOEX to Trim Liability in Oil Spill Litigation
Publication Date: 2011-05-20
Practice Area:
Industry:
Court:
Judge:
Attorneys:
For plaintiff:
For defendant:
Case number:

Amidst frantic finger-pointing between defendants facing billions in claims over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP and Mitsui & Co. unit MOEX are the first to (mostly) make peace.

November 15, 2012 |

Anti-bribery enforcement guide defines who's a foreign official

Officials who work for companies that are more than half owned or controlled by a foreign government are probably covered by U.S. foreign bribery laws, the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission said.
2 minute read
December 18, 2007 |

No-show Kuwait firm held liable

When Lt. Col. Dominic R. Baragona died in a traffic accident on an Iraqi highway in 2003, few would have foreseen that his death would prompt a federal judge in Atlanta to levy a $4.9 million judgment against a U.S. military contractor in Kuwait. Baragona was killed when a tractor-trailer rig owned by Kuwait Gulf Link Transport Co.
13 minute read
October 04, 2010 |

Texas' Best-Paid General Counsel

2 minute read
December 22, 2003 |

The Impact Players of 2003

Michael Ramsey, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sharon Pierce, Joe Jamail, Donald Godwin and Mike Gruber, State Bar of Texas chief disciplinary counsel Dawn Miller, Jeff Blackburn and Mitchell Katine
39 minute read
October 12, 2004 |

Bush Targets Pa. Trial Lawyers With New Ad

President Bush is making Pennsylvania trial lawyers one of the focal points of his campaign in this state, one of the nation's most hotly contested electoral battlegrounds.
8 minute read

TRENDING STORIES

    More from ALM

    More from ALM

    Legal Speak is a weekly podcast that makes sense of what’s happening in the legal industry.

    Resources