Below is a Reuter’s article about the first Bear Stearns High Grade Fund arbitration case won by an investor. John Rich and Ross Intelisano of Rich & Intelisano, LLP were lead trial counsel and Jake Zamansky and Ted Glenn of Zamansky & Associates were co-counsel. "Investor in Defunct Bear Fund Win ...

In twin February 4, 2010 decisions, the Third Circuit reached opposite rulings on whether a school violated a student's First Amendment rights by disciplining him for creating a defamatory MySpace page about the school principal. In both cases, a student used an off-campus computer to create the pr ...

On February 1, 2010, it became compulsory for randomly selected passengers at Heathrow and Manchester airports in the UK to pass through full body scanners before boarding their flights.  This enhanced security screening has been implemented following the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attac ...

Since the advent of iPhone applications in July, 2008 over 134,000 iPhone applications have become available at the Apple App Store. Over 3 billion of such applications for news, information, entertainment, and more have been downloaded by iPhone users. With ESPN, The New York Times, Facebook, Li ...

On behalf of Clients of ING Financial Services, a subsidiary of ING Group NV, Signator Investors and Michael Joseph DiMare, Houston based Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas LLP is investigating claims that DiMare may have encouraged many of his clients to invest in a Ponzi scheme. This may have hap ...

There were apparently few signs of a recession at Cozen O’Connor in 2009. The firm Monday reported signifcant increases in gross revenue, profits per equity partner and revenue per lawyer. Gross revenue jumped 22 percent to $290 million in ‘09, profits per partner were up 19 percent to $ ...

New York City based firm Schulte Roth & Zabel reported a decline in gross revenue and profits in 2009. Gross revenue was $397,000,000, dropping 5.5% since 2008. Profits per equity partner were $2,130,588, dropping 7%. According to partner Alan Waldenberg the firm views 2009 “as an extremely stro ...

Paul Robinson of Rockland, Massachusetts was arrested last week after employees of a Dunkin' Donuts reported that he had exposed himself to them several times since last October. Apparently the manager of the store had reported the activity days before the arrest but no one was able to locate the su ...

The concept of exchanging a deed & keys for money still remains the same, but the steps to the crazy tribal dance we perform while helping buyers buy and sellers sell keep changing.Whereas closings ten years ago could best be thought of as graceful arm in arm waltzes and minuets, todays closings ar ...

In its report released last week, the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed that Chicago-based Sidley Austin LLP transferred approximately $21 million for a government official, Teodor Obiang, son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, who’d long been suspected of ...