Businesses Seek Protection on Legal Front
am 30.10.2006 von http://deyerler.blogspot.com... Frustrated with laws and regulations that have made companies and accounting firms more open to lawsuits from investors and the government, corporate America — with the encouragement of the Bush administration — is preparing to fight back. Now that corruption cases like Enron and WorldCom are falling out of the news, two influential industry groups with close ties to administration officials are hoping to swing the regulatory pendulum in the opposite direction. The groups are drafting …
Law Firms Owned By Private Equity Funds? (2)
Law & Justice / Last year the British government proposed that external ownership of law firms should be allowed. The bill is now expected to pass in 2007. It would allow lawyers in England and Wales to set up practices as so-called alternative business structures,…
Law Firms Owned By Private Equity Funds?
Law & Justice / The British government proposes allowing non-lawyers to partner with lawyers to run combined firms and the creation of an independent body to handle complaints against legal professionals. The proposed reforms to the legal profession in England and W…
More Extraterritoriality
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / LL - Washington. The German Federal Ministry of Justice prepares to close of a gap in transnational corruption enforcement. On May 30, 2007, the federal cabinet in Berlin decided to amend the corruption provisions of the German Crimin…
Precedential Case Procedure
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The Justice Department in Berlin issued a press release today to announce a new and experimental statute that establishes new procedures for lawsuits by investors harmed in the capital markets.For a period of five years, investors ma…
Legal entity / Terminologie
Transblawg / Legal entity has two possible meanings for me, summed up by Wikipedia: The term legal entity is sometimes used: * to refer to a juristic person, an artificial entity that the law treats for some purposes as if it were a person, such as an incorp…
Expansion in der Rezession
Jurabilis / In Zeiten nach hinten verlegter Associate-Einstellungstermine, Associate-Entlassungen und angedachter Gehaltskürzungen wirken solche Berichte wie aus einem Parallel-Universum:A question: Could the grim economic times be a recruiting boon for fi…
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