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June 09, 2005 |

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.
8 minute read
August 16, 1999 |

Williams v. GMC

District court erred by segregating categories of objectionable conduct in determining whether plaintiff stated claim for hostile work environment; under totality of circumstances, plaintiff stated claim by alleging sexual innuendo, foul language debasing women, and work-sabotage by co-workers
39 minute read
November 17, 2000 |

Utilicorp Brings the Power Inside

Six years ago, energy provider UtiliCorp abolished its legal department in favor of outsourcing its corporate work to Kansas City, Mo.'s Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin. After a $5 billion international acquisition spree, the Missouri-based company has come full circle and hired the entire department -- its principal outside counsel dealmaker and six of his associates -- away from Blackwell Sanders.
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December 17, 2002 |

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June 27, 2002 |

Lawyers See Lessons in Andersen Trial

Arthur Andersen's obstruction of justice trial shows that it's important for corporate insiders to think about how their conduct in risky situations will appear to the public -- not just whether it's technically legal. That's one of the lessons learned by several prominent lawyers interviewed about the accounting firm's trial, in which jurors focused on the acts not of the accountants but of an in-house attorney.
5 minute read
February 07, 1999 |

Mike's Friendly Microsoft Takeover

9 minute read
February 16, 2004 |

Industry Fights Back Over N.J.'s Anti-Pollution Push

The business community goes to court over New Jersey's plan to squeeze up to $1 billion out of polluters for the loss of natural resources such as rivers and wildlife. Six trade associations, including those representing the chemical and petroleum industries, said in a suit in Mercer County that the process used in 4,000 claims is unfair and illegal in its "clandestine approach."
6 minute read
May 14, 1999 |

Protecting Plant-Related Inventions

The increasing economic importance of plant-related innovations has spawned a myriad of mechanisms for protecting them, including utility patents, Plant Patent Act patents, plant variety protection and trade secret protection. Each of these mechanisms carries its own costs and benefits, and each has had a tremendous impact on the applied agricultural and agricultural biotechnology industries. This paper examines the pro's and con's of all the available options.
14 minute read
May 20, 2003 |

Thomas Recalls His Ga. Job Search Woes

Jonathan [email protected] on the stage with Justice Clarence Thomas at Saturday's University of Georgia law school graduation were two class officers, one of whom is headed to work at King Spalding, the other to Alston Bird.Their success at landing jobs at big Atlanta firms contrasted notably with the introspective story Thomas told of his 1974 graduation from Yale Law School.
4 minute read
June 07, 2005 |

White-Collar Crime

Robert G. Morvillo and Robert J. Anello, partners at Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg, write that the greatest imbalance between prosecution and defense in the criminal justice system is money. Prosecutors have no recognizable monetary boundaries on any given case and can rely on unlimited government resources as they see fit, while the overwhelming number of individuals have limited and considerably less funds with which to defend themselves.
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