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Aug 12 2009
Clifton Williams, 33 is facing six months in jail for making what court documents call a yawn-like sound in a Chicago suburb courtroom in Will County last month, where...
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Jul 02 2009
Samuel Fishman, a former M&A partner in Latham & Watkins's New York office, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 (£6,000) fine and...
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Feb 06 2009
Federal judge Jed Rakoff decided that Marc Dreier, a prominent New York lawyer accused of defrauding investors of more than $400 million, can be freed under house...
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May 24 2008
Federal prosecutors on Friday recommended Melvyn Weiss, the long-reigning king of multibillion-dollar U.S. class action litigation, spend no more than 33 months in...
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Feb 09 2008
A former vice-president of the now-defunct Yukos oil company, Vasily Alexanian, 36, says he is nearly blind, has cancer of the lymph nodes and suspected tuberculosis....
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