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December 09, 2009 |

Company That Was Cyber-Heist Victim Is Spared Liability to Its Stockholders

A Princeton, N.J.-based company that failed to protect itself against an off-the-scale computer data breach has succeeded in fending off a securities fraud action over the resulting losses to investors. In 2008, hackers stole information on 130 million credit card and debit card accounts from Heartland Payment Systems, which processes payroll and credit card payments for more than 250,000 businesses and handles about 100 million transactions per month.
6 minute read
June 13, 2007 |

Tax Case Before High Court Could Mean Big Bucks for Business

In its private conference this week, the Supreme Court will consider whether to grant review in a case that addresses the constitutionality of a West Virginia law that imposes income and franchise taxes on out-of-state companies that have customers -- but not a physical presence -- in the state. Banking giant MBNA America describes its petition for certiorari as presenting "the single most important constitutional issue in state taxation of the last four decades."
7 minute read
October 12, 2009 |

Making Her Way

Judy O'Brien was the first female partner, and a serious heavyweight, at Wilson Sonsini. Now she's GC at a startup that may change the developing world. With video.
7 minute read
June 09, 2003 |

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July 02, 2010 |

From banking to investing, overhaul will affect you

The financial overhaul is about more than exotic derivatives and complex risk assessments. It will change how you interact with the financial system every day, from swiping your debit card at the store to applying for a mortgage.That includes new rules governing how we bank, borrow and invest, plus the creation of a new regulator to make sure financial transactions like signing up for a credit card are safer and easier to understand.
5 minute read
February 27, 2006 |

Pro Se Solo Battles SMU Over Property Eyed for Bush Library

Gary M. Vodicka, a Dallas solo practitioner, is waging a legal battle against Southern Methodist University over University Gardens Condominiums, one unit of which is lived in by Vodicka. The university has been buying other units in the complex since the late 1990s, but now the stakes are higher: The units sit on property that could become the location for the George W. Bush presidential library.
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February 04, 2011 |

Let My People Go ... Online! The Party of We and People Power

The violence in Egypt is well beyond the government's control and turning off the Internet really didn't help.• ALSO SEE: Start Your Engines! | Expert Archive • Get Out of It — Welcome to Dodge City, Old Chap • All Right, GCs ... Let's Get UNIFIED!!!
5 minute read
August 04, 2010 |

Retail Data: Americans remain cautious in July

NEW YORK AP - Worried about the stalling economic recovery, Americans remained reluctant to spend at stores in July, especially on pricier items like jewelry, though they let go of some money for travel, according to data released Wednesday.Revenue from high-end jewelry, which had held steady in June, plummeted in July from a year earlier, when the figures already were dismal.
4 minute read
April 10, 2012 |

Internet Gaming: Its Time Is Now

Robert J. McLaughlin, a partner at Hodgson Russ, writes that although the New York Lottery is the largest in the country, with more than $7 billion in sales in 2011, like other state lotteries it has been frustrated in attracting the younger player, age 18 to 35, and in modernizing methods of selling. But a recent opinion from the Department of Justice finally gave the green light to U.S. Internet lottery sales, potentially changing not just the lottery world as we know it, but the entirety of U.S. gaming as well.
10 minute read
February 25, 2013 |

A license to steal?

If high court sides with AmEx in case brought by merchants, it will encourage companies to draft clauses that eliminate both arbitration and claims, allowing them to get away with breaking the law.
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