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F. Lee Bailey, Lawyer for O.J. Simpson, Files for Bankruptcy Tied to IRS Dispute
June 28th, 2016
F. Lee Bailey, a defense attorney who gained fame for his work in two sensational 1960s cases and later was part of O.J. Simpson’s “Dream Team,” filed for personal bankruptcy, saying he’s more than $5 million in debt. Besides ...
Microsoft, Google Join Rivals to Back Apple in FBI Fight
March 4th, 2016
Tech competitors argue privacy, security threatened in case San Bernardino shooting victim among those supporting Apple Tech giants including Microsoft Corp. and Google set aside often fierce rivalries to back Apple Inc. in its fight against a judge’s order ...
Too Many Lawyers. Here’s One Solution
July 7th, 2015
A large part of the law business is in crisis. Lawyers and judges bemoan a “justice gap”: millions of Americans who need legal services but can’t afford them. At the same time, many law school graduates can’t find legal ...
New York Weighs Jurisdictional Rule for Foreign Firms
May 18th, 2015
Some lawyers say bill is at odds with recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling New York lawmakers are weighing a bill to make foreign companies submit to the jurisdiction of New York courts as a condition of doing business in ...
Case closed in favor of INTL FCStone in Sentinel case
August 22nd, 2014
INTL FCStone Inc. (Nasdaq:INTL) (“the Company”) announced on March 19, 2014 that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit had reversed the trial court’s January 2013 decision against its subsidiary, FCStone, LLC, in the Sentinel matter. Because ...
Ex-Goldman director Rajat Gupta fails to void conviction
July 15th, 2014
Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director Rajat Gupta, serving a two-year prison term, has failed to persuade a federal appeals court to overturn his insider trading conviction. In a brief order, the full 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Old, Fired at IBM: Trendsetter Offers Workers Arbitration
May 12th, 2014
For at least a decade, International Business Machines Corp. gave fired employees information detailing a severance package that asked them to waive age-discrimination claims and also included a page listing the job titles and ages of workers being let ...
Euro to Dollar fell 0.2 percent, Asian stocks trade mixed; Key events coming up this week
October 2nd, 2018
Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday after a muted U.S. trading session, with Japanese shares extending gains as the yen remained under pressure. The dollar pushed higher as emerging-market currencies slid, led by Indonesia’s rupiah. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average ...
Regulators launch operation to crack down suspicious cryptocurrency investment schemes
May 22nd, 2018
Securities regulators across the United States and Canada announced dozens of investigations Monday into potentially deceitful cryptocurrency investment products, the largest coordinated crackdown to date by state and provincial officials on bitcoin scams. As many as 70 investigations have ...
Asia Stocks Turn Higher as Investors Assess Crises: Markets Wrap
May 19th, 2017
Yen poised for strongest week in a month; gold resumes gains S&P 500 rebounds with dollar amid bullish economic reports Asian shares rose as Japanese equities erased morning losses and investors assessed the risks from political crises in Brazil ...
