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5 Oct 2022, 6:30 am
Posted by Laura Harder, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 Editor's Note: Laura Harder is an Associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. [read post]
13 May 2021, 2:24 pm by Kevin LaCroix
David KaplanLane ArnoldOne of the most important aspects of class action litigation in the U.S. is the right of individuals to “opt out” of the class. [read post]
24 Oct 2018, 12:48 pm
  Apparently it was bought by WorldCom (another infamous company of a different era) and then bought by Verizon and substantially disappeared. [read post]
2 Jan 2018, 5:08 pm by Kevin LaCroix
The Trump Administration Re-Shapes the Federal Judiciary President Trump’s appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. [read post]
13 Apr 2017, 3:39 am by Broc Romanek
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, created by Congress after the accounting scandals that took down Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc. to police audits of listed companies, has hired an outside law firm to probe the breach, according to people familiar with the matter. [read post]
22 Feb 2016, 4:36 pm by Kevin LaCroix
After attending the PLUS D&O Symposium  some years ago, several colleagues at Partner Re thought it might be worthwhile to provide D&O insurance professionals with historical overview of the evolution of Directors and Officers insurance (D&O) in the US marketplace. [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 5:05 pm by Kevin LaCroix
John Reed Stark David Fontaine In this day and age, the members of the boards of directors of most companies understand that cybersecurity issues are both important and should be a board-level priority. [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 4:14 am by Kevin LaCroix
  The possibility of litigation reform through bylaw revision received a substantial boost in May 2014, when the Delaware Supreme Court in the ATP Tours, Inc. v. [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 5:32 am by Sandy
 Hence, the failure to receive notice was solely the fault of the attorney, and the District Court has abused its discretion in extending the party's time to file a notice of appeal.Judge Lynch dissented from the decision, stating the the Court should have deferred to the judgment of the District Court.The decision in In re Worldcom, Inc. [read post]
24 Jan 2013, 3:09 pm by Barry Barnett
(In re WorldCom, Inc.), No. 10-4588(l), slip op. 3 (2d Cir. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 3:28 pm by Steve Bainbridge
What is difficult to understand is that with all the professional talent involved (both accounting and legal), why at least one professional would not have blown the whistle to stop the overreaching that took place in this case.[3] More recently, when Congress was considering the bill that became the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Senator John Edwards took a hard look at the behavior of the lawyers for firms like Enron and WorldCom, before concluding that: When “executives and/or accountants… [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 9:24 am by David Lat
Johnston was a lead attorney in the group that represented Orange County in its chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy case, and subsequently has represented a number of debtors in chapter 11 proceedings, including Barry’s Jewelers, Inc., Kenetech Windpower, Inc., Komag, Inc., SmarTalk TeleServices, Inc., Solidus Networks, Inc., and WestStar Cinemas, Inc. [read post]