The story is here on the 6th Madoff employee to plead guilty to conspiracies related to covering up Ponzi scheme events. This employee –...

The Conglomerate includes an interesting post on Dodd-Frank, plus SEC whistleblower statistic for the first seven weeks. The commentary...

The UK has now seen its first criminal conviction of a corporation for homicide. CMS Cameron McKenna provides the story in an article...

Like other EU countries, Spain is implementing a wider range of criminal sanctions for corporate misdeeds, including "environmental"...

Public government corruption surely is one of the most venal of all misdeeds. A weekend NYT article by Elisabeth Malkin covered in...

This AmLaw article by Alison Frankel details Boeis Schiller & Flexner joining the fray in tort claims arising from Chiquit’as admitted...

If you think Toyota is having a bad year, think about Eternit entities and its executives (not all are Eternit entities are presently...

From the WSJ, word of an upcoming criminal fraud trial in Italy against investment bankers selling derivatives to municipalities. Some...

In Italy, criminal prosecutions are fairly often used for situations that likely would not be treated as criminal law issues in the US. ...

Trial is now underway in Italy on combined civil and criminal charges regarding senior corporate officials of Eternit allegedly having...

Milk intentionally altered with melamine sickened around 300,000 thousand children in China The aftermath includes civil suits in China...

Here is a different example of how mass tort litigation ends up becoming a media story. In this instance, the media consists of the...

Talk about a global tort. While waiting to transport one of my daughters this evening, I spent a few minutes reading the guilty plea...

News articles here (best one), here and here are out with news from Italy that the criminal and civil trial for the Eternit asbestos...

Are anti-bribery statutes actually trade sanctions that discourage investment, and should such statues be modifed? For more on that...

The NYT article is here. The prosecution never should have happened – it will be fascinating to watch its dissection....

The article is here. #CriminalLawandTorts #WRGrace

Reading the trial judge’s opinion makes it plain he did not believe the Hardie Directors when they made denials or professed a lack of...

The James Hardie opinion/judgment is available here. The link also was added to the prior post containing links to the charges and a...

The New York Times ran a Saturday article detailing growing evidence of government misconduct in the criminal prosecution of WR Grace...