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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Sharman 'encouraged' illegal file-trading, lawyers allege
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Rivals of the No. 1 insurance broker are desperate to replace the highly profitable contingent commission revenue they were forced to jettison in the wake of the probe by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
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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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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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Prosecutors in a federal case against former KPMG employees have asked the judge to determine whether two defense lawyers had conflicts of interest and should be removed.
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Barry Bondsâs lawyers filed a motion to dismiss perjury charges against him Wednesday.
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One of the nationâs best-known plaintiffâs lawyers, Richard Scruggs, is ensnared in legal drama involving federal conspiracy and bribery charges.
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William S. Lerach, a former law partner at Milberg Weiss, pleaded guilty to conspiracy for a role in pursuing companies with class-action lawsuits when their share prices dropped.
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Securities class-action attorney William Lerach, who has been called the most-hated man in the tech business, is set to plead guilty to a count of conspiracy, the Wall Street Journal reports. Hear that sound? It's champagne corks popping all over Silicon Valley.
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TORONTO (CP) - Lawyers for Robert Baltovich, convicted 12 years ago in the murder of his girlfriend, began a long-awaited legal bid to clear his name Monday in an appeal that's expected to resurrect the grim spectre of sex killer Paul Bernardo.
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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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A man who helped Milberg Weiss, a New York law firm, get lucrative class-action lawsuits pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and two other charges.
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The former general counsel of Computer Associates, Steven Woghin, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and obstruction of justice yesterday.
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The court-appointed lawyer of a firebrand Serb nationalist appealed to his client Tuesday to end the boycott of his war crimes trial, where he stands accused of unleashing a murderous campaign of ethnic cleansing in parts of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
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The former chief lawyer and chief account of the maker of the Grand Theft Auto video games pleaded guilty Thursday to falsifying business records.