June 18 2012
Counsel defending serious toxic exposure or personal injury claims are often faced with a determination by the Social Security Administration (SSA) that the plaintiff is disabled.
August 31 2012
On August 3, 2012, Stephanie Mack and Deborah Madoff, the spouses of Bernard L. Madoff’s sons, filed a brief before federal judge Jed S. Rakoff, arguing that they cannot be the subject of Madoff trustee Irving Picard’s clawback lawsuit styled Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC.
July 5 2012
The record-breaking £59.5 million fine imposed on Barclays by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and $360 million penalty imposed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Department of Justice in connection with the improper submission of London InterBank Offered Rate (Libor) rates has led to intense public scrutiny of Barclays’ practices, procedures and management and possible misconduct by other financial institutions.
December 7 2012
Are you a manufacturer of products sold in plastic containers such as tools, consumer electronics, cosmetics, dish soap or soft drinks?
September 6 2016
Today, we begin a new topic in our analysis of the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision making - the average length of the Court’s majority, special…
August 24 2016
In Blumenthal v. Brewer, the Illinois Supreme Court was asked to overrule its thirty-seven year old decision in Hewitt v. Hewitt and hold that…
December 18 2012
UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, is set to become the second financial institution to enter into a settlement arising out of the Libor rate-fixing scandal.
December 18 2012
The SEC has filed an administrative complaint against the China-based branches of the “Big 4” U.S. accounting firms and another accounting firm as a result of their refusal to release documents in connection with the SEC’s investigation of China-based companies that are listed on U.S. trading exchanges.
December 18 2012
Due to an exemption in the Dodd-Frank Act, offshore bank clients may not be held to the same regulatory requirements for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market trading.