http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Enron Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135520 In a victory for investors who collect securities settlements from soon-to-be bankrupt companies, noteholders including Alfa SAP and two ING funds will not have to return early payments they received from Enron to the Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. http://www.law360.com/articles/135520 http://www.law360.com/articles/133026 The Madoff and Stanford Ponzi schemes, Refco fraud and other recent financial scandals that have resulted in multibillion-dollar losses to shareholders have made Congress more receptive to consideration of aiding and abetting legislation than it has been previously, says David J. Libowsky of Bressler Amery & Ross PC. http://www.law360.com/articles/133026 http://www.law360.com/articles/133426 Luis R. Mejia, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement Division's chief litigation counsel, has decided to make a move to DLA Piper's Washington office. http://www.law360.com/articles/133426 http://www.law360.com/articles/132383 A federal court has granted joint motions to dismiss several qui tam suits filed by oil tycoon Jack Grynberg alleging anti-competitive practices on the part of several natural gas companies — including Exxon Co. USA, Enron Corp. and Mobil Natural Gas Inc. — in a multidistrict litigation over a decade old. http://www.law360.com/articles/132383 http://www.law360.com/articles/132062 Five months after fessing up to falsifying books and records, the former chief financial officer of Enron Broadband Services Inc. has been hit with one year of probation — including nine months of home confinement — and a $25,000 fine. http://www.law360.com/articles/132062 http://www.law360.com/articles/123725 This term, the U.S. Supreme Court is taking on a host of major criminal cases, including litigation that focuses on the scope of a statute that has been instrumental for the government in bringing corporate fraud and public corruption suits and another case that questions whether individuals considered to be sexually dangerous can be detained after serving their prison sentences. http://www.law360.com/articles/123725 http://www.law360.com/articles/128872 It has bitten the likes of one-time Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, media magnate Conrad Black, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling. Now the honest services provision of the mail fraud statute, that long-held weapon of prosecutors, looks set to finally lose its teeth. http://www.law360.com/articles/128872 http://www.law360.com/articles/130315 A federal appeals court has found that the government wrongfully accused two former high-level officials of a Pennsylvania government-funded contracting agency of honest services fraud against the U.S. Navy, while upholding their convictions on honest services fraud charges against their former employers. http://www.law360.com/articles/130315 http://www.law360.com/articles/129726 Constitutional law professors from Columbia Law School have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court opposing a libertarian lobbyist group and Nevada accounting firm’s challenge of the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. http://www.law360.com/articles/129726 http://www.law360.com/articles/129358 After four years as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, Marshall Camp has returned to Irell & Manella LLP as special counsel focusing on complex commercial litigation and white collar criminal defense matters. http://www.law360.com/articles/129358 http://www.law360.com/articles/129372 A federal appeals court has dismissed all remaining charges in the government's insider trading and securities fraud case against former Enron executive F. Scott Yeager, following a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court denying the government's bid for a new trial. http://www.law360.com/articles/129372 http://www.law360.com/articles/128613 In two recent cases, Kirschner vs. K&L Gates LLP and Roberts vs. McAfee Inc., corporate stakeholders have taken the unprecedented step of suing, and seeking substantial recoveries from, attorneys engaged to assist special committees in investigating corporate malfeasance. These cases highlight a new risk faced by outside counsel, say Michael T. Gass and Alessandro Martuscelli of Choate Hall & Stewart LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/128613 http://www.law360.com/articles/128230 Corporate counsel are split on whether they support a prohibition that prevents government prosecutors from asking corporations to waive their attorney-client privilege, according to Fulbright & Jaworski LLP's 2009 Litigation Trends Survey. http://www.law360.com/articles/128230 http://www.law360.com/articles/128169 The bankruptcy court's decision to compel Metavante Corp. to perform its obligations under a swap agreement between Metavante and Lehman Brothers Special Financing Inc. may have an important impact on future derivatives contracts in the U.S. market, say Ian Cuillerier and Abraham Zylberberg of White & Case LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/128169 http://www.law360.com/articles/124647 Pending legislation proposing to reverse the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Stoneridge Investment Partners LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta Inc. has revived a heated debate over how best to ensure that aiders and abettors to securities fraud don't go unpunished. http://www.law360.com/articles/124647 http://www.law360.com/articles/128032 The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling's appeal of his convictions stemming from the massive fraud that led to the energy giant's collapse. http://www.law360.com/articles/128032 http://www.law360.com/articles/123918 If plaintiffs in the Refco securities litigation succeed in appealing the dismissal of Mayer Brown LLP and one of its lawyers from the case, securities lawyers arguing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit may find themselves liable for statements they wrote anonymously. http://www.law360.com/articles/123918 http://www.law360.com/articles/126706 Securities litigator James F. Moyle has joined Alston & Bird LLP, where he will focus on complex litigation in the financial services sector. http://www.law360.com/articles/126706 http://www.law360.com/articles/127409 Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., has introduced a bill exempting small public companies from having to comply with controversial auditing provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, this less than a week after the government set a deadline for compliance with the provisions. http://www.law360.com/articles/127409 http://www.law360.com/articles/126145 After spending two years at a Connecticut investment firm, senior bankruptcy lawyer Thomas B. Walper has rejoined his former firm Munger Tolles & Olson LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/126145