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Increasing utilization of independent counsel in effective whistleblower policies

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 1 2012

In part based on demand from institutional shareholders and other stakeholders, corporate management and boards, independent board members and audit

Legal trends '13: a forecast of the year ahead - litigation & dispute resolution

  • Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 17 2013

There have been many developments in business litigation in 2012. Although it would be virtually impossible to distill them down to a single trend or

Sixth Circuit finds personal jurisdiction over out-of-state attorney who drafted letters to individuals in Ohio

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 2 2012

The Sixth Circuit recently reversed the Southern District of Ohio and found personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state attorney in Schneider v. Hardesty, Case No. 09-3892

Securities fraud claims against outside law firm could not be certified as class action, Third Circuit determines

  • Duane Morris LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 5 2011

On March 29, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in In re: DVI, Inc. Securities Litigation,1 ruled that where investor plaintiffs sought to pursue a class action against a company's outside law firm accountable for behind-the-scenes contributions to an apparently fraudulent public filing, the investors had to show the deceptive conduct was publicly attributed to the law firm in order to invoke the "fraud-on-the-market" presumption of reliance

Despite elaborate efforts to avoid detection, corporate attorney and Wall Street trader are charged with criminal insider trading and sued by the SEC

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 7 2011

On Wednesday, April 6, 2011, authorities arrested Matthew Kluger (a former associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati) and Garrett Bauer (a Wall Street trader) and charged them with conspiracy, insider trading and obstruction of justice in connection a years-long scheme to capitalize on material nonpublic information obtained from Mr. Kluger's law firm

Laws and orders brought into force in 2012

  • Bedell Cristin
  • -
  • Jersey
  • -
  • September 7 2012

The Banking Business (General Provisions) (Amendment No. 3) (Jersey) Order 2011 came into force on 25 January 2012. The Order amends the Banking Business (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2002 in relation to deposit taking

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