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Mayer Brown has continued the expansion of its investigations and enforcement capabilities with the arrival of seasoned trial lawyer Michael Levy, who joins the firm as a partner in the global White Collar Defense & Compliance, Congressional Investigations & Crisis Management and Regulatory & Investigations practice groups in Washington DC. Mr. Levy joins from Paul Hastings. via […]
Bernard J. Ebbers, who spent 12 years in prison after presiding over a notorious $11 billion accounting fraud as chief executive of the telephone company WorldCom, died on Sunday, according to his lawyer. He was 78. His health had sharply deteriorated in recent months, his family said in a statement provided by the lawyer, Graham […]
Kathleen Hartnett, a former Justice Department attorney who was co-leader of Boies Schiller Flexner’s San Francisco office, has jumped to Cooley as a partner. Hartnett, who was a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s federal programs branch and associate counsel to President Barack Obama, left Boies Schiller on Thursday and joined Cooley the next […]
A former telecommunications executive convicted in one of the largest corporate accounting scandals in U.S. history died just over a month after his early release from prison. Bernard Ebbers was 78.The former WorldCom chief died Sunday, according to a family statement cited by WAPT-TV in Mississippi. via Bernie Ebbers, ex-CEO convicted in WorldCom scandal, dies […]