Guilty Plea to End Crusading Lawyer's Lucrative Run
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In a three-decade career, California lawyer William S. Lerach won tens of billions of dollars for his clients by suing executives embroiled in corporate scandal. Casting himself as the voice of victimized shareholders, he chalked up unprecedented awards in the Enron accounting mess and the Exxon oil...
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How punishment of a serial shareholder scofflaw may help him plunder again.
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A lawyer quits the Bush campaign after confirming  links with a group that accused John Kerry of lying.
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A former eye doctor in California pleaded guilty to accepting $6.1 million in secret kickbacks for serving as a lead plaintiff in securities lawsuits filed by Milberg Weiss.
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A Colorado lawyer pleads guilty Thursday to obstructing justice by leaking secret grand jury documents to two reporters covering the government's probe of steroids in sports.
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A man has agreed to plead guilty to trying to extort more than $1m (Â£494,000) from actor Tom Cruise.
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A senior vice president at Marsh &  McLennan Cos. MMC.N insurance broker on Thursday pleaded  guilty to criminal charges in connection with New York Attorney  General Eliot Spitzer's ongoing probe into fraud and  bid-rigging in the insurance industry.
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Lawyers for Russian billionaire Mikhail Gutseriyev seek to overturn a warrant for his arrest on tax evasion charges.
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MOSCOW  - Citing fears of intimidation, lawyers representing the business partner of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky filed a motion Monday waiving the right to call defence witnesses as their client's fraud and tax evasion trial drags on.
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A pharmaceutical company owner accused of illegally marketing and distributing steroids then paying doctors to write medically unnecessary prescriptions will plead guilty, his attorney said Thursday.
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Blog: An attorney representing a woman sued by the Recording Industry Association of America claimed his client was innocent and asked a federal judge to levy sanctions against the association's lawyers. Instead, he's the one who got sanctioned for wasting the
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A former oral surgeon has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he orchestrated a grisly plot to plunder corpses and sell body parts for transplants, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Former prime minister Jean Chretien's lawyers demanded Tuesday that Justice John Gomery be removed as head of the inquiry into the sponsorship scandal. One of Chretien's lawyers confirmed that they have begun steps to formally ask that Gomery step aside.
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The guilty plea is the latest blow to a powerhouse firm that once dominated the landscape for class-action securities lawsuits.
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Former Rep. Frank Ballance pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge that he used a charitable foundation to bilk the government and funnel money to his law firm, church and family.
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Lawyers acting for Michael Jackson in the child molestation case bid to have prosecutor removed.
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The former boss of US firm Tyco, Dennis Kozlowski, is to appeal against his convictions for theft, fraud and conspiracy.