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September 21, 2009 |

Civil Actions

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January 31, 2006 |

Your Duties to Employees During Corporate Criminal Investigations

It used to be common in corporate criminal investigations for a single law firm to represent the target corporation and all its relevant employees. But those days are gone, and according to Williams & Connolly partner Richard M. Cooper, prosecution pressures are discouraging even mutually supportive defense arrangements. Cooper provides employers with some suggestions on the duties a company owes to employees during investigations, concerning disclosure of information and other sticky issues.
7 minute read
July 30, 2007 |

Mayer Brown Sued by Lee Over Refco

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October 18, 2013 |

The Score: NBA Union's Legal Bills Keep Piling Up

As players get set for a new National Basketball Association season, the union that represents them remains locked in litigation with its former leader. Meanwhile, in other sports law news: a Williams & Connolly partner starts his own sports agency; a trio of litigators helps Mark Cuban beat the SEC; Jeffrey Kessler sizes up collegiate clients; and Lanny Davis signs on to defend the Washington Redskins' name.
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March 03, 2006 |

GC of SOX-Created Agency Stays On to Fight Constitutional Challenge

How quickly things change. Last month, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a SOX-created private agency that oversees auditors of public companies, said its general counsel was stepping down at the end of March. But the day after that announcement, the PCAOB was hit with a suit challenging its existence on constitutional grounds. Now, Lewis Ferguson III says he'll stay on, at least for a while, to defend the PCAOB in a case he says may go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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October 18, 2010 |

INADMISSIBLE

McDermott Will brand on North Capitol Street; D.C. Circuit hopeful reports her income; good and bad news in Sullivan's Stemler ruling; Facciola to investigate missing Pershing Park data; a new ABA commission; and Puckett represents the Army again in this week's column.
4 minute read
July 30, 2007 |

Buyout Firm Hits Mayer Brown With $245 Million Refco Suit

The private equity firm that owned a controlling interest in failed commodities brokerage Refco Inc. has filed a $245 million lawsuit against Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, accusing the law firm of helping to conceal the sham transactions that led to Refco's collapse. Boston-based buyout firm Thomas H. Lee Partners filed a complaint against Mayer Brown on Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, alleging that Mayer Brown handled 17 fraudulent transactions at the behest of Refco's executives between 2000 and 2005.
5 minute read
July 25, 2005 |

Deferred prosecution: A primer

In the early common law, corporations were not subject to criminal liability. In America, as business corporations came to dominate the private-sector economy, corporate criminal liability emerged, first with respect to strict-liability offenses, then more generally.
7 minute read
July 30, 2007 |

Buyout Firm Hits Mayer Brown With $245 Million Refco Suit

The private equity firm that owned a controlling interest in failed commodities brokerage Refco Inc. has filed a $245 million lawsuit against Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, accusing the law firm of helping to conceal the sham transactions that led to Refco's collapse. Boston-based buyout firm Thomas H. Lee Partners filed a complaint against Mayer Brown on Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, alleging that Mayer Brown handled 17 fraudulent transactions at the behest of Refco's executives between 2000 and 2005.
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