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Pension Probe Will Snare 'Hundreds' of Attorneys, N.Y. Attorney General Predicts
New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo predicted Thursday that 'hundreds and hundreds' of attorneys will ultimately be implicated in his office's investigation of government entities improperly enrolling non-employees in public pension funds. While his investigators have only exposed the "tip of the iceberg" so far, Cuomo said the problem is not limited to a few school districts that were initially exposed for having put attorneys doing work for the districts on the public pension rolls.
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Bingham Responds to Former Associate's Allegations of Holiday Party Drugging
Responding to a former associate's complaint that the firm ignored her allegation that she had been drugged at a firm holiday party, Bingham McCutchen said there is no merit to Michelle Moor's claims that a firm lawyer and an HR manager mishandled charges she raised with them relating to alleged instances of drugging of firm employees, and rape. The firm expressed disappointment in Moor's resignation from the firm. Claiming in her complaint that she was concerned for her safety, Moor resigned in February.
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Marvell Technology to Pay $10 Million Fine Over Backdating
The Securities and Exchange Commission came down hard on Marvell Technology Group on Thursday for stock option backdating and for being unusually slow to cooperate and reluctant to clean up the problem. Marvell agreed to pay a $10 million fine to settle charges that the company regularly backdated options. Also, Weili Dai, co-founder and chief operating officer, agreed to pay $500,000 to settle charges that she picked the dates in hindsight and signed faked meeting minutes to cover her tracks.
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Go Deep for E-Discovery Solutions
Failures to preserve and produce electronically stored information often occur when error-prone, manual e-discovery processes are used. A deeper understanding of how to evaluate EDD technology is needed to keep costs down, reduce risk and adhere to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
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Ex-Prosecutor to Hunt Software Pirates for Adobe
Ross Nadel, the former criminal chief of the San Francisco U.S. Attorney's Office who founded and led the highly regarded Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property unit before joining Cooley Godward Kronish, has gone to Adobe Systems to be senior legal counsel of worldwide anti-piracy. He said he liked Cooley, but the gig at Adobe, with its distinct mix of enforcement and cybercrime, was too appealing. Most big software companies have at least some in-house lawyers working to track down software pirates.
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