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Law Firms Review Compliance Measures After Attorney Arrests in Insider Cases
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Recent charges by federal authorities that three current or former BigLaw attorneys illegally made securities trades--two of them allegedly using inside information gleaned from the law firms that employed them--have sparked renewed vigilance at many legal partnerships. Law firms are reviewing the security measures ...15 hours ago -
Alto Group Holdings Inc. Amends Letter of Intent on Ashanti Gold Project
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Alto Group Holdings, Inc., has announced that the Company has amended the previously announced Letter of Intent (L.O.I.) in regards to certain mining rights in Ghana, West Africa. Alto plans to form a joint venture with the mineral rights owners, Castle Peak Mining Ltd. and will formulate a definitive Joint Venture ...2 days ago -
Ex-Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Execs Acquitted Today on All Charges
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When concerns are expressed that authorities are targeting the small fry rather than the big fish in mortgage-related fraud cases, a criminal prosecution of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers has repeatedly been cited as a rare exception. But today the case ended with the acquittal of both defendants, reports ...3 days ago -
Security Man at 3-Star hotel
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Our Client 3-Star hotel in Lokoja, Kogi State seek to recruit a winning team that would redefine hospitality in the confluence city requires individuals for immediate employment.Security Qualification and ExperienceCandidate must possess WASC/NECO with not less than five (5) credits at a sittingCandidates with ...4 days ago -
Ex-SEC Lawyer Pleads in Dreier Case, Got $100K to Play Role re $44M in Fake Notes
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A lawyer who formerly worked in the enforcement division of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has pleaded guilty to helping attorney Marc Dreier try to sell $44.7 million of fake notes to sophisticated investors. Robert Miller, 52, said Dreier paid him $100,000 to impersonate individuals at a Canadian ...4 days ago -
Rothstein in Upbeat Mood, Says He’s Smoking Cigars with His Lawyer
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The Florida lawyer under investigation for an alleged Ponzi scheme says he’s doing just fine, but the lawyer representing him begs to differ. Lawyer Scott Rothstein spoke to the Miami Herald while holed up in an undisclosed location with his lawyer, Marc Nurik. “I am sitting here smoking cigars with Marc, ...5 days ago -
Nadel Receiver Leaves Fowler White Boggs Along With at Least 9 Others
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The court-appointed receiver trying to recover money for investors with alleged Ponzi schemer Arthur Nadel is forming a new law firm. The receiver, Burton Wiand, is a partner at Fowler White Boggs in Tampa. He is leaving the law firm with at least nine other lawyers to form Wiand Guerra King, the Tampa Tribune ...1 week ago -
Ten Years Ago, A Courageous Judge Did a Fine Thing
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On November 5, 1999, United States District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued an order, spanning 412 paragraphs, that constituted his findings of fact in United States v. Microsoft Corp. , 98-1232 (D.D.C. Nov. 5, 1999). In the final paragraph, His Honor wrote: Most harmful of all is the message that ...1 week ago -
Federal Securities Regulation
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On Oct 22 an anonymous Law is Cool contributor posted a comment about the Federal Government’s intention to submit a reference to the SCC about whether a federal securities regulator is intra vires the Constitution. As expected, Quebec is going to resist any efforts by the federal government to regulate that ...1 week ago -
Ropes & Gray Associate Arrested in Galleon Probe
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Continuing: A Ropes & Gray associate is one of 14 people charged today in an investigation into insider trading involving the Galleon Group hedge fund. Associate Arthur Cutillo is accused of stealing inside information from Ropes & Gray and leaking it to Jason Goldfarb, who was also arrested today, Bloomberg ...1 week ago -
Congressman Wants to Know Why Bank of America Hired GC with Inactive License
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A congressman investigating Bank of America’s purchase of Merrill Lynch wants to know why the bank ousted its general counsel last December and hired a replacement with an inactive license. "This is another fact that leads me to believe there could be something rotten in the cotton," U.S. Rep. Edolphus Towns, ...1 week ago -
Roberts: Should Courts Review Mutual Fund Fees When Morningstar Has Info?
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Antonin Scalia questioned yesterday whether courts should be evaluating mutual fund fees when investors can make their own assessment. At issue in the case is whether investors in the Oakmark family of mutual funds can challenge high fees set by fund manager Harris ...1 week ago -
What Careers In Finance Would Be Benefitted By A Legal Education?
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What type of careers in finance would be best suites to e filled by a lawyer or law school grad? Investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, securities law…? Also, what do you think of these career paths in such a crazy time, and how in demand do you predict these positions will be in 4 years?1 week ago -
Judge Reels Over Receiver’s $11M Bonus Request in Mutual Benefits Case
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When Chief U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno first saw the bonus requested by the court-appointed receiver in charge of collecting assets for investors who lost some $837 million in the Mutual Benefits viaticals fraud, he thought it was just over $1 million. Then Moreno realized that hed misread the figure. It was ...2 weeks ago -
Lawyer Raided Sullivan & Cromwell Offices for Inside Info Years Ago, Court Filings Say
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Years ago, when he worked at Sullivan & Cromwells offices on Wall Street as a corporate associate during the 1990s, Gil Cornblum regularly conducted what he called "spelunking" raids there around 4 a.m., reports the Globe and Mail. Court documents filed in an Ontario insider-trading case against Cornblum and ...2 weeks ago -
Lawyer Battled Ovarian Cancer While Working as SEC Commissioner
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Lawyer Elisse Walter had complained to her doctor of pressure on her side before her appointment last year as a commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission, but there was no immediate diagnosis. It wasn’t until after she went to work in the new post that Walter learned of her ovarian cancer diagnosis, USA ...2 weeks ago -
Ex-Dorsey Partner Kills Himself on Eve of Insider Trading Deal
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A former Toronto partner of Dorsey & Whitney has killed himself, reportedly on the eve of a settlement in a criminal insider trading investigation. Lawyer Gil Cornblum killed himself yesterday, according to stories in Bloomberg and the Toronto Globe and Mail. U.S. and Canadian officials had planned to announce a ...2 weeks ago -
Lawyers Say Death of Madoff Associate Complicates Investor Case
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The death of Jeffrey Picower, suspected of making $7 billion by investing with Bernard Madoff, could complicate a suit seeking to recovery money on behalf of other investors who lost money in Madoffs Ponzi scheme. Picower, 67, was found dead in his swimming pool at his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion on Sunday, according to ...2 weeks ago -
Canada’s own version of SEC to be vetted by Supreme Court
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Ottawa to seek top court ruling on single securities regulator Unlike the US, Canada doesn’t have a national securities regulator. Canadian constitution is somewhat equivocal in its division of powers between provinces and Ottawa. It sounds like a good idea for the federal government to refer its plans to the ...3 weeks ago -
Davis Wright Settles Malpractice Suit for $30M Despite ‘Strong’ Position
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A major Pacific Northwest-based law firm has agreed to settle for $30 million securities fraud and legal malpractice claims brought by investors in a failed company that oversaw dozens of senior housing complexes. Their Oregon state-court case against Davis Wright & Tremaine and two other law firms alleged that ...3 weeks ago
