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  • November 4, 2010 | Bloomberg

    Fed fights back when it is the fraud victim

    So now we know what it takes for the Federal Reserve to show an interest in rooting out fraud at a too-big-to-fail bank. The Fed must decide that the Fed itself has been defrauded. Bo

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  • July 6, 2010 | Bloomberg

    Case for accounting board became weaker

    Now that the Supreme Court has said the auditing profession's main regulator can continue to exist, here's a knottier question: Should it The case for preserving the Public Company Ac

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  • June 6, 2008 | Bloomberg

    Goldman says buzz off to groveling banking lobby

    There's seldom any joy in praising the mighty. Yet you have to give Goldman Sachs Group Inc. credit. Once again, it's living up to its reputation as the world's smartest bank. It's be

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  • September 9, 2011 | Bloomberg

    Suing banks is next best to letting them fail

    The Vietnam War gave us the expression, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." The same kind of thinking might help explain the U.S. bank rescues of 2008: We had to save the ban

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  • April 4, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    HealthSouth's $147M Legal Tab Not Unusual

    ATLANTA — HealthSouth Corp. has helped lots of lawyers become more prosperous in recent years.The Birmingham, Ala., company expects eventually to pay a total of about $147 million

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  • February 1, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    Stayin' Alive

    It was mid-2007, and Carl Krasik's plate was overflowing-and then some. Krasik's agenda as general counsel: to manage a megamerger between his bank, Mellon Financial Corporation, and the

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  • January 19, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Lottomatica S.p.A., the operator and license holder of Italy's national lottery, Lotto, and its majority stockholder, the privately-owned financial group De Agostini S.p.A., has

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  • February 3, 2009 | Legaltech News

    2008 Law Technology News Awards

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  • October 25, 2006 | Legal Times

    Going In-House? It Might Be a Wise Move

    Earlier this year, Judge J. Michael Luttig of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stunned the legal world by surrendering his lifetime appointment to the bench in favor of the top legal job at Bo

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  • December 23, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Vying for Rigas Assets

    The federal government and Adelphia have both laid claim to assets acquired by John Rigas and his son Timothy, members of the founding family of the giant cable company that they were convicte

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