Ed. Note: This guest post is contributed by Sandra McAubre, she writes on the topic of sports management degree programs . She welcomes your comments at her email id: sandra1.mcaubre@gmail.com. It’s no secret that litigation is rife in the US of A – we sue each other for even the most trivial of issues. That’s [...]
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Tag Archive: Massive Litigation
In a Reversal, Goldman Sachs Settles
That was fast. From WaPo: Stocks had a late-day turnaround and closed mixed Thursday as traders awaited news that Goldman Sachs settled the government’s civil fraud charges. As word spread that the Securities and Exchange Commission had scheduled a late-afternoon announcement, investors began buying on the belief that the government and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. [...]
Lazy Sunday Links, 5.23.10
ABA’s 4thAnnual National Institute on E-Discovery is coming up in 4 days. Here is a good post from Francois Senecal of Ledjit entitled “Dragging one’s feet on e-discovery: Walking on a thin line.” MySpace and Facebook may be in danger of losing a few “friends.” Speaking of social media, the Fed Judiciary is now on [...]
e-Discovery News You Can Use
Three articles have come out this week that I really like. The first was posted yesterday from Zuzana Ikels, partner at Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, entitled When E-Discovery Is Used as a Weapon. It’s about the dangers in using e-discovery tactics in order to find ways to break attorney-client privilege with your opponent. Ikels [...]
Second Request Alert: United to Become the Largest Airline in the World
From the NYT DealBook: United is buying Continental, and the combined company will keep the United name and be based in Chicago. Jeffery A. Smisek, Continental’s chief executive, will run the company. Assuming the deal wins antitrust approval, the merged airline would replace Delta Air Lines as the top carrier…
Lazy Sunday Links, 5.2.10
Rob Robinson is setting up a great website over at Complex Discovery. His first post: “Does Privacy Matter?” Greg Bufithis of Project Counsel does a nice job of summing up the SEC v Goldman Sachs case. The Posse List releases their “Top 20, Plus More” e-discovery links of the week. Something else I picked up [...]
The DOJ is Starting to Chip Away at the Goldman Iceberg
Here is the iceberg reference. Let the games begin. From WaPo: The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into possible securities fraud in mortgage trading at Goldman Sachs, law enforcement sources said Friday. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan and the FBI are conducting the probe, which sources said has been underway for weeks. [...]
SEC v. Goldman: Epic Battle That Will Trigger an Avalanche?
Here are two articles of note that I have come across regarding the SEC investigation of Goldman Sachs. First, from Darren Stubing in Emirates Business 24/7: Goldman to trigger an avalanche The timing of Goldman’s results couldn’t come at a worse time. Litigation will be complex and lengthy. However, what is clearer is that there [...]
Lazy Sunday Links, April 25th, 2010
Will Big Banks Pay Back Their Bailouts Through Biglaw? Here is a link to my Above The Law post on Thursday, regarding the SEC’s investigation into Goldman Sachs. Monique Altheim of EDiscoverymap.com has posted a series of interviews she conducted at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit. The Posse List has posted their “Top 20…Plus More” [...]
Lazy Sunday Links 4.18.10: The Goldman, DOJ, Avoiding Death, Twitter, Duke, Podcast, and Avon, edition
Is the Goldman Sachs suit the tip of the iceberg? I can be rest assured that the next time the DOJ wants to read my Yahoo email, it will have a warrant. This e-discovery article has been getting a lot of play all over the interwebs. How big is Twitter really? Will Duke University be [...]
Lazy Sunday Links 3.21.10: Confusion Carries The Day, Edition
Here is a great article from Jason Krause on e-discovery vendor selection and project management. For anyone interested, you can listen to a Virtual LegalTech webcast entitled The Challenge of Preserving and Collecting Evidence in a Cloud sponsored by Integreon. Viacom and YouTube love each other as much as Alec Baldwin and Kim Bassinger. Pierce [...]
The e-Discovery of a Downfall: Lehman Brothers & the Valukas Report
I usually take Saturdays off, but this great post from Greg Bufithis of The Posse List about the release of the Valukas Report and Lehman Brothers collapse was well worth mentioning. Here is a quick summary: There is extensive media coverage of the report so we won’t labor through all the deails, and as we have [...]
Toyota Litigation Also Accelerating With No Signs of Slowing Down
And we are off to the races… From Amanda Bronstad in The National Law Journal: Plaintiffs lawyers have been positioning themselves for a front seat in the mounting litigation arising from the sudden unintended acceleration problems in vehicles manufactured by Toyota. Approximately 150 lawyers assembled on Friday at the InterContinental Chicago hotel to discuss sharing [...]
To All the Corrupt Corporations of the World, A Heartfelt Thanks
Good news for attorneys, especially those with foreign language backgrounds. It seems that FCPA enforcement is not slowing down one bit. From George J. Terwilliger, III, Darryl S. Lew, Daniel Levin and G. William Currier of White & Case LLP: On the heels of the US Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) massive sting operation, which resulted [...]
Attorney General: Financial Fraud Makes DOJ Very Angry, and You Wouldn’t Like DOJ When It Gets Angry
I missed this article from a few days ago, but I thought it was important to still post it due to the ramifications it will have for litigation and e-discovery. You will have to register to read the entire article, but it is free, and takes less than a minute to sign up. From Kirkland [...]
Second Request Alert: From Cheese to Chocolate
From CNNMoney.com: Kraft reached a $19 billion deal Tuesday to buy Cadbury, finally succeeding in its takeover of the 200-year-old British candy maker after sweetening its offer. Cadbury’s board said it was unanimously recommending the bid to shareholders. // cnnad_createAd(“270381″,”http://ads.cnn.com/html.ng/site=cnn_money&cnn_money_position=220x200_ctr&cnn_money_rollup=quigo¶ms.styles=fs”,”200″,”220″); // ]]> The cash-and-stock offer values each Cadbury share at 840 pence, or about $13.72. [...]
2010 to be Banner Year for e-Discovery/People Getting in Trouble
From DestinationCRM.com via EDD Blog Online: E-Discovery Requests Set to Rise in 2010 As companies are looking for innovate their way out of the recession, strategically cutting costs could be one viable option. Bringing services and processes in-house to gain more control might be another way to shake things up. Particularly when it comes to [...]
FCPA: Devicemakers Dastardly Deeds to be Discovered
Unfortunately, you have to subscribe to read the rest of this post, but I wanted to go ahead and post the teaser blurb> From FDANews.com: Devicemakers may face an increase in indictments as the Justice Department zeroes in on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations. Justice’s FCPA and healthcare fraud units are beginning to work [...]
Second Request Alert: Unlike Another of Same Name, Exxon Tiger Not Afraid To Show Face In Public
From Bloomberg: Exxon Mobil Corp.’s (XOM) planned buyout of independent natural gas producer XTO Energy Inc. (XTO) provided a ringing endorsement for the commodity on Monday–and could signal a modest uptick in merger activity. The deal is valued at $41 billion, including the assumption by Exxon of about $10 billion of XTO’s debt, and is [...]
NBC’s Outstanding Programming to be Wed with Comcast’s Excellent Customer Service
In a follow up to this post below, here is more from The New York Times: General Electric has reached a tentative agreement with the French media conglomerate Vivendi that clears the way for the sale of NBC Universal, including the flagship NBC network, to Comcast, the nation’s largest cable operator, people briefed on the [...]
Breaking News: Companies Really Don’t Want to be Sued
From ComputerWeekly: In-house lawyers are concerned that their businesses are unable to respond to legal demands to retrieve electronic documents, a survey of lawyers at 200 global companies reveals. The KPMG Forensic and Harris Interactive survey found that 38% of lawyers surveyed said that it would be difficult to retrieve data in their organisation, potentially [...]
FCPA/Pharma: Another Article on DOJ Enforcement, Same Sad Conclusion for Pharmaceuticals
R. Christopher Cook and Stephanie Connor Jones Day provide some more insight into an article I had posted about earlier regarding the DOJ’s renewed interest in going after pharmaceuticals fro FCPA violations. Note you do have to register to get this article, but it takes less than two minutes, and they very rarely spam your email [...]