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New Law to Limit Class-Action Cases
Measure will rewrite the rules for class-action lawsuits; swift passage in the Congress illustrates the expanded influence of Republicans and their business supporters.
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In CEOs' Trials, the Risks Of Going Negative
Today, lawyers for former WorldCom Inc. chief executive Bernard J. Ebbers are to begin cross-examining Scott D. Sullivan, Ebbers's onetime friend and finance chief. -The Washington Post
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Law Firm Accused of Discrimination
The law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP illegally discriminated against older employees by forcing partners out because of their age, federal regulators alleged yesterday in a lawsuit.
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Asbestos Claims Solution Sought
As Congress reconvenes Tuesday, the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee will set out to accomplish what no one on Capitol Hill has been able to do: resolve the question of who pays how much to whom for injuries tied to exposure to asbestos.
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Groups Find New Ways to Push Their Agendas
A growing number of advocacy groups are blurring the distinction between legitimate media and propaganda to promote their causes.
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Lawyers In the Limelight
By all appearances, Steven Woghin was a lawyer at the top of his game. After years in government service, the former Justice Department attorney had worked his way up to a comfortable six-figure salary and the chief legal job at software maker Computer Associates International Inc.
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Judge Finds Halliburton Settlement Unacceptable
A federal judge in Dallas yesterday rejected a $6 million settlement in a shareholder suit that alleged Halliburton Co. engaged in accounting fraud, saying the lead plaintiffs' lawyer mishandled the case and may have settled for too little money.
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D.C., Boston Law Firms to Merge
Shea & Gardner, a District law firm with 73 lawyers and deep roots in federal affairs, will combine with Boston-based Goodwin Procter LLP, a 500-lawyer operation, the firms said yesterday.
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EEOC Suit Should Get Attention
The 340 women who held top positions in Morgan Stanley's institutional equities division include some of Wall Street's highest flyers. Some made millions of dollars a year a year as executives, saleswomen and administrators.
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Business's Brush With the Blues
Time was, a shopkeeper caught doing business on Sunday could wind up paying a fine or worse. These days, to hear business owners and lobbyists tell it, failing to serve shoppers, diners and drinkers seven days a week is akin to economic malpractice.
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Restraining the Gavel's Power
A Supreme Court decision could prompt white-collar criminals to challenge recent sentences made harsher by judges' consideration of factors such as how much investors lost as a result of corporate crimes.
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Wal-Mart Bias Case Moves Forward
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Tuesday that a sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. could proceed to trial as a class action because of evidence the nation's largest employer paid female workers less and gave them fewer promotions.
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HMOs Welcome Ruling Limiting Suits
A Supreme Court ruling Monday limiting the right of patients to sue managed-care companies for malpractice was a major victory for the firms, but industry spokespeople said it will benefit patients, too.
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Studies Show U.S. Trails on Sick Leave
The United States lags behind the rest of the world in giving workers paid leave to stay home sick or to take care of ill family members, and almost half of all private-sector employees have no paid sick days, according to two new studies.
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Challenges Beset Low-Cost Paralegal Aid
Firm's do-it-yourself approach with living trusts, uncontested divorces and bankruptcy draw challenges from law enforcement agencies.
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Influential Law Firms to Merge
Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP, a venerable Washington law firm whose partners include counselors to three former presidents, announced yesterday it has agreed to merge with Boston-based Hale and Dorr LLP by the end of May.
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Shaw Pittman, Akin Gump Break Off Merger Talks
Two of Washington's largest law firms have broken off talks after months of tentative discussions about a potential merger, the managing partner of one of the firms said.
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Tax Shelters Are a Boon To Agencies
A disguised witness at a Senate hearing on tax shelters yesterday described how some government agencies, including the Washington area's Metro system, supplement their budgets by leasing property such as subway cars to private entities that earned large tax breaks.
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Former Ernst Worker Arrested
A former Ernst & Young audit partner was arrested yesterday and charged with altering documents related to his work for an Internet credit card company whose finances were being probed.
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ABA Eases Rule on Informing
The American Bar Association's House of Delegates voted to loosen confidentiality rules and allow lawyers to turn in corporate clients that are committing fraud.
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