Roger Clemens pled not guilty in federal court Monday to charges that he lied to Congress. The arraignment of the seven-time Cy Young Award winner, which included six counts, comes more than two years after he told the Congressional Oversight Committee that he had never taken performance-enhancing drugs. According to a USA Today account, Clemens’ attorneys [...]
Continue reading...30. August 2010
Hausfeld LLP agreed to a $4.95 million settlement with Morgan Stanley in an antitrust class action regarding municipal derivatives, the firm said in a press release Monday. Hausfeld served as one of the interim class counsel law firms leading the case. In the complaint (In re: Municipal Derivatives Antitrust Litigation, Case No. 08 Civ. 2516 (S.D.N.Y.), plaintiffs [...]
Continue reading...26. August 2010
Former pitching great Roger Clemens will be arraigned Monday in federal court in Washington D.C. on charges he lied to Congress about his use of performance-enhancing drugs. Clemens was indicted last week on six counts of making false statements, perjury and obstruction of justice following a two-year investigation. The charges stemmed from Clemens’ testimony before a [...]
Continue reading...23. August 2010
“Tax Lady’ Roni Deutch was slapped with a $34 million lawsuit for fraud by California Attorney General Jerry Brown on Monday. The suit alleges Deutch’s law firm violated state law by making false claims of winning tax battles with the IRS. According to Brown, who is the Democratic nominee for governor of California, Deutch’s firm advertises [...]
Continue reading...18. August 2010
Dallas-based law firm Goldfarb Branham LLP has launched an investigation into Marlin Equity Partners buyout of Phoenix Technologies. The concern comes from Phoenix shareholders who worry that the per share payout. Shareholders are expected to be paid $3.85 for each share of Phoenix. The investigation will be led by securities lawyer Hamilton Lindley. “We are investigating the [...]
Continue reading...17. August 2010
Philadelphia lawyer, Stephen Cozen, partner at Cozen O’Connor, has been hired to sketch up the rules on BP’s gulf-compensation fund. The $20 billion fund will be dispersed among businesses and persons who were caused loss by April’s Deepwater Horizon well explosion. The administrator of the fund, Kenneth Feinberg says that “no one else in the nation” [...]
Continue reading...15. August 2010
Known for taking on big oil, Baron & Budd, P.C. will be representing numerous Louisianans in the upcoming case against BP concerning the calamitous Gulf Oil Spill. Baron & Budd’s motto “Protecting What’s Right” spans back to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill proceedings of 1989 when Baron & Budd attorney Brent Rosenthal represented the National [...]
Continue reading...12. August 2010
A federal judge who last week ruled California’s same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional moved Thursday to suspend gay weddings until Aug. 18 at 5 p.m. The ruling by Judge Vaughn Walker allows opponents of same-sex marriage the time to gain a decision from the 9th Circuit on whether gay marriage should allowed to resume, the Associated [...]
Continue reading...12. August 2010
Law Firm Best, Best, & Krieger has been subpoenaed by the Attorney General’s office during their investigation of overpaid employees in the city of Bell. The firm gave the Attorney General, Jerry Brown, $5,000 towards his gubernatorial campaign. Brow Brown subpoenaed tax and salary records from the city of Bell, as well as records from Best, Bell’s [...]
Continue reading...11. August 2010
Bill McCollum, The Florida Attorney General, issued subpoenas to three South Florida foreclosure law firms as they begin their probe into allegations over forged documents filed with the courts in various foreclosure cases. The Law Offices of David J. Stern in Plantation, the Law Offices of Marshall C. Watson in Fort Lauderdale, and Shapiro and Fishman, [...]
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