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August 16, 2005 |

Lerach Hunkers Down After Indictment

A five-year criminal probe of plaintiffs lawyer William Lerach's former firm is heating up, and has already resulted in the indictment of a former client for allegedly taking kickbacks from the firm. With the federal investigation seeking informants from a trail of disgruntled former partners across the country, the brash outspokenness with which Lerach typically faces down adversity is no more. He and his partners are now hunkering down behind a wall of criminal defense lawyers and a high-powered PR team.
6 minute read
In re Refco Capital Markets Ltd. Brokerage Customer Securities Litigation, 06 Civ. 643
Publication Date: 2007-09-20
Practice Area: Business Law
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Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
Judge: Gerard Lynch
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Case number: 06 Civ. 643

District Judge Gerard E. Lynch U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Richard L. Stone and Mark A. Strauss, Kirby McInerney & Squire, LLP, New York, New Y

February 27, 2009 |

Ex-Covington Attorney Sues Firm for Bias

Yolanda Young, a former Covington & Burling staff attorney who writes for the Huffington Post, is claiming racial discrimination.
6 minute read
October 10, 2008 |

Stolt-Nielsen Lawyer Is Silent on Dropped Whistleblower Suit

Six years after suing Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group for wrongful termination, former general counsel Paul O'Brien appears to have reached a settlement with his one-time employer. It's not known whether O'Brien -- who sought almost $7 million in damages -- won anything from Stolt. But the very fact that O'Brien's suit survived so long is a victory for other in-house lawyers with a whistleblowing claim against their employer.
3 minute read
June 17, 2008 |

Milberg Agrees to Pay $75 Million in Settlement

Federal prosecutors today reached a settlement with class-action law firm Milberg, four of whose former name partners have pleaded guilty in the past year to criminal charges relating to the payment of kickbacks to individual plaintiffs in shareholder cases. The deal calls for the New York-based firm to pay $75 million in fines in exchange for the dropping of criminal charges, that amount is to be paid in installments through 2012.
6 minute read
November 29, 2006 |

Fullam Refuses to Recuse Himself From Corruption Case

The Philadelphia federal judge who was specially assigned to preside over a high-profile corruption prosecution of three elected officials in Delaware has refused to step down from the case, flatly rejecting claims by prosecutors that his comments in a recent hearing showed that he harbors an anti-government bias.
5 minute read
May 24, 2001 |

Heat is on Attorneys in Drug Trafficking Cases

To the dismay of the defense bar, federal prosecutors are putting lawyers into prison for accepting fees to represent those accused of drug dealing and white-collar crimes. If scaring lawyers out of representing criminal defendants was the Justice Department's goal, the feds seem to have succeeded. Defense lawyers say few prominent practitioners will touch drug cases any more -- or at least will admit to it.
7 minute read
March 10, 2003 |

Bitten by a COBRA?

Jenkens & Gilchrist wants an arbitrator to decide claims brought by four disgruntled clients who allege in a $1.4 billion federal suit that the Dallas-based firm gave them faulty tax advice on COBRA transactions that is now at issue as the IRS examines the taxpayers' returns. The 510-lawyer firm and a Chicago-based shareholder are among defendants in a RICO suit filed in federal court in New York.
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