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 ...

February 8, 2010 A new study published in the February 2010 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, has linked the consumption of two or more sodas a week to an increased rate of pancreatic cancer. ''People who drank tw ...

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has had to bring in hundreds of additional arbitrators to deal with the approximately 400 securities fraud claims that investors have filed against Regions Financial Corp., the investment banking unit of Morgan Keegan & Co. Investors are seeking to recover ...

Arnstein & Lehr LLP Litigation Department Chair David Waxman and Partner Sharilee Smentek were successful recently in the defense of a negligent failure-to-warn-action against their client in The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.  The appellate court affirmed the opinion of an Illin ...

What's Happening and When in 2010 Last year brought many changes in labor and employment law. Expect more of the same in 2010. Join our experienced attorneys for an informative breakfast discussing all of the hot topics that will affect you and your employees:My head hurts... the new laws in effec ...

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP announced the election of 29 associates to the partnership last week. Among them: Jeanne Bawa and Matthew Walker are based in the San Bernardino office. Ms. Bawa specializes in the defense of workers' compensation...

On Friday Sharon Pearl, the California State Bar’s former director of real property operations, was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison after the judge found that she used stolen money to live a “very comfortable lifestyle well above her means”. The judge also ordered restitution of ab ...

A class action lawsuit against Dell, Inc., filed originally in Oct 2006 by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, and dismissed in 2008, was reinstated on February 5 by the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit. The lawsuit alleges misconduct in connection with the design, manufacture, wa ...

In Edelman v Poster ;  2010 NY Slip Op 00788 ;  Decided on February 4, 2010 ;  Appellate Division, First Department  we see a situation in which a matrimonial retainer agreement boldly stated a right to arbitrate, yet the Appellate Division, First Department, determined that clie ...

First circuit appeals court upholds two-member quorum of NLRBSource: Jackson Lewis LLP. Reproduced with permission. Copyright © 2009, Jackson Lewis. Originally published by Jackson Lewis, LLP, at http://www.jacksonlewis.com/ All rights reserved.In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeal ...