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Plaintiffs lawyers accusing the bankrupt securities firm MF Global of bilking customers out of $1.6 billion have expanded their civil suit with new claims against the auditing giant PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Hot again, Silicon Valley approaches 'critical mass'
The capital markets are opening up in Silicon Valley — and lawyers have noticed. Best known for its startup technology companies and venture capital, the region has seen renewed investor interest in emerging companies, a spate of initial public offerings and several mergers and acquisitions involving some of the region's largest businesses, including Cisco Systems and Google.The government isn't giving up after a federal judge found that prosecutors had fumbled their original obstruction case against former Glaxo associate GC Lauren Stevens.
After an eight-year odyssey through the California courts, San Francisco antitrust lawyer Joseph Alioto may have finally reached the end of the line in a sprawling price-fixing case against Big Pharma.
In Memoriam: A Roll Call of 2012's Deceased Legal Luminaries
From Skadden's Roger Aaron to Sullivan & Cromwell's George Kern Jr., The Am Law Daily remembers some of the leading lights of the legal trade who died last year.U.S. Attorney Scandal: The One That Got Away
Even the Justice Department admits that it could have handled better the replacement of several U.S. attorneys (right). Now the question is how much damage has been done to the institution.Did Stewart as Lawyer Cross the Line?
Overshadowing a Supreme Court justice and a famous independent counsel, the ghost of Jimmy Stewart stole the show at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' conference in Florida. Stewart's portrayal of a wily lawyer in Anatomy of a Murder framed last week's discussion on how suggestive a lawyer can be in preparing a witness for testimony. Shown a film clip, judges and lawyers voted on whether Stewart "crossed the line" while leading his client to plead temporary insanity. The vote's result? A near split.Anderson Retrial Unlikely as Government Increases Use of Alternatives to Indictment
In the government's aggressive and largely successful pursuit of corporate fraud in recent years, the conviction of Arthur Andersen was its first major, high-profile victory. A retrial after last week's stinging reversal by the U.S. Supreme Court is unlikely, said a number of legal experts, and that will be a difficult pill for government prosecutors to swallow.State AI Legislation Is on the Move in 2024
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