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Riggs Bank pleaded guilty to a criminal violation of the Bank Secrecy Act, a U.S. anti-money laundering law, and agreed to pay $16 million for failing to report suspicious activity in accounts held by former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and Equatorial Guinea officials. In federal court on Thursday, Riggs also agreed to a five-year probation […]

San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop and Washington, D.C.-based Shaw Pittman announced Wednesday that they intend to merge, creating a 900-lawyer giant with national reach and global ambitions. The two firms signed a letter of intent Monday and said they expect the deal to be ratified by partners in March and finalized by April 4. If that

A defense attorney who investigators say has ties to the New York Mafia is quitting the legal team of reputed Connecticut underboss Anthony Megale, a move that avoids a public hearing on whether there are conflicts of interests in the case. New York attorney Joseph Corozzo was captured on video hobnobbing with Gambino family brass

Martha Stewart strolled outdoors with her dog and fed her horses Friday morning, hours after returning from prison to the multi-million-dollar estate where she will remain under the watch of federal authorities while trying to revive her homemaking empire. Before her five-month stay in prison, Stewart lamented that she would miss her beloved pets –

The Bush White House loves to accuse critics of its tax-cut policies of engaging in “class warfare.” However, it’s hard to imagine a more egregious example of class warfare than the Bush-pushed “bankruptcy reform” bill that just cleared the U.S. Senate. This measure, S256, long sought by credit-card companies and retailers, will fall heaviest on

In a twist likely to further complicate the prosecution’s efforts to convict Michael Jackson, a former bodyguard expected to be a key witness against the pop star is sitting in a Las Vegas jail, facing a slew of felony charges stemming from four armed robberies. A spokeswoman for the Clark County, Nevada, district attorney’s office

Michael J. Sullivan loved being a district attorney in Brockton. He could look out his office window and see the fruits of prosecuting drug dealers: people walking without fear on the streets of the old mill town, children frolicking on playgrounds. When Sullivan was nominated as U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, he worried he wouldn’t find

A federal judge Monday rejected Martha Stewart’s bid to end her five months of house arrest early, calling her sentence “reasonable and appropriate.” Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum said she was not persuaded by Stewart’s claim that the punishment was hurting her business. “I see no reason to modify the sentence,” the judge said. Stewart began

It began with an e-mail that any in-house counsel could have written: a reminder to colleagues about the company’s document retention policy. “It will be helpful to make sure that we have complied with the policy,” wrote Nancy Temple, a Chicago-based in-house lawyer for the Arthur Andersen accounting firm, in October 2001. The policy called

“There is a legitimate question, if it is corrupt competition,” says UCLA law professor Lynn LoPucki. His recently released book makes the same controversial assertion, and that has the bankruptcy bar steamed. It has become so common for big corporations to file bankruptcy reorganization cases in either Delaware or New York, no matter where the