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26 Jul 2010, 10:01 pm
The carnage of the Enron Myth is now piled high -- the destruction of Arthur Andersen, the death of Lay, the outrageous prosecutorial misconduct involved in the case against Lay and Skilling, the senseless prosecution and imprisonment of the four Merrill Lynch executives in the Nigerian Barge case, Richard Causey, Chris Calger, Kevin Howard, Joe Hirko and the other Enron Broadband defendants -- the list goes on and on. [read post]
25 Feb 2009, 6:59 am
Arthur Andersen opinion: unless falling within one of few exceptions to Business and Professions Code Section 16600, post-term covenants not to compete are invalid in California regardless of whether such covenants are narrowly drawn. 5. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 10:23 am
Arthur Andersen, LP, 44 Cal.4th 937 (2008).) [read post]
11 Jan 2008, 6:01 pm
ARTHUR ANDERSEN, LLP This case presents the following issues: (1) Is a non-competition agreement between an employer and an employee that prohibits the employee from performing services for former clients invalid under Business and Professions Code section 16600, unless it falls within the statutory or judicially-created trade secrets exceptions to the statute? [read post]
4 May 2019, 4:00 am
My first job in the accounting world was as an auditor for Arthur Andersen. [read post]
12 Apr 2015, 2:45 pm
Arthur Andersen LLP, 189 P.3d 285 (Cal. 2008), where the California supreme court “rejected a proposed rule—apparently suggested by earlier California cases and extended by the Ninth Circuit—‘that a mere limitation on an employee’s ability to practice his or her vocation would be permissible under section 16600, as long as it was reasonably based’. [read post]
16 Jan 2008, 8:00 pm
The auditors (who incidentally happened to be none other than Arthur Andersen) were misled by these transactions and audited the financial results of Charter on that basis. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 11:53 am
Protection Corp. v BDO Seidman, 95 NY2d 702, 711, 746 N.E.2d 1042, 723 N.Y.S.2d 750; see Credit Alliance Corp. v Arthur Andersen & Co., 65 NY2d 536, 553-554, 483 N.E.2d 110, 493 N.Y.S.2d 435). [read post]
6 Mar 2007, 2:41 am
Apart from the direct loss of jobs and wealth that resulted from the Arthur Andersen debacle and the meltdown in the energy trading industry that occurred as a result of Enron's demise, a devastating impact of these business prosecutions is that they obscure the true nature of risk and fuel the myth that investment loss results primarily from criminal misconduct. [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 10:31 am
Goyal, CA-9, No. 08-10436, December 10, 2010).In a concurring opinion, Chief Judge Kozinski called the instant case one of a string of recent cases in which courts have found that federal prosecutors overreached by trying to stretch criminal law beyond its proper bounds, citing Arthur Andersen LLP v. [read post]
20 Nov 2006, 10:37 am
Moreover, Keller worked as a partner at Arthur Andersen, LLP in Atlanta and headed the Southeast region for the business process risk consulting group which included internal audit, capital markets and finance and accounting services. [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 11:59 am
In the past, poor management and inadequate internal controls allowed rogue lawyers (and accountants as well, such as Arthur Andersen) to run amok and even wreck firms. [read post]
15 Apr 2015, 8:55 am
Arthur Andersen LLP, 189 P.3d 285 (Cal. 2008); City of Oakland v. [read post]
31 Oct 2006, 6:21 am
Coffey noted that WorldCom involved a unique situation where the company had entered bankruptcy (making director indemnification by the company less likely), the company's auditor (Arthur Andersen) was defunct, the company's bankers wielded a due diligence defense for their role in the scandal, and the company's $100 million directors and officers' insurance policy had been exhausted. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 10:01 pm
If you've been following the Enron-related criminal cases from the first one (Arthur Andersen), you know the drill -- in an effort to facilitate prosecutions, the Enron Task Force developed a fallacious theory of criminal liability out of the honest services wire fraud statute that is normally used in corporate crime cases involving bribes or kickbacks. [read post]
9 Jun 2014, 1:22 am
Stapleton spent several decades building large law firms (Fenwick & West and Littler Mendelson) and large accounting firms (PwC, Arthur Andersen, Grant Thornton) before founding LEAP Legal. [read post]
1 May 2024, 5:48 am
Weissmann was responsible for the overextension of an obstruction provision in a jury instruction that led the Supreme Court to reverse the conviction in the Arthur Andersen case in 2005. [read post]
12 Apr 2015, 2:45 pm
Arthur Andersen LLP, 189 P.3d 285 (Cal. 2008), where the California supreme court “rejected a proposed rule—apparently suggested by earlier California cases and extended by the Ninth Circuit—‘that a mere limitation on an employee’s ability to practice his or her vocation would be permissible under section 16600, as long as it was reasonably based’. [read post]
14 Jan 2010, 10:01 pm
After prosecuting Arthur Andersen out of business in the intensely post-Enron climate of Houston in 2004, the Enron Task Force threatened to do the same to Merrill Lynch unless the firm served up some sacrificial lambs, which it did by offering Mr. [read post]
3 Nov 2023, 7:11 am
Arthur Andersen, LLP 44 Cal. 4th 937 (2008), which held that California’s existing noncompete statute, Section 16600 of the Business Professions Code, prohibits even narrowly drawn noncompetition agreements unless the agreement falls within a statutory exception. [read post]
