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Examiner Fingers Lehman’s Management And Outside Auditor For Serious Accounting Misreporting

March 16th, 2010

March 2010  Lehman Brothers is the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. A report by a U.S. bankruptcy examiner investigating the collapse of Lehman Brothers blames [...]

401(k) Fee And Disclosure Litigation Gets A Boost

November 18th, 2009

November 2009 Since late 2006, over two dozen federal lawsuits have been filed against some of the country’s largest employers. Many of these cases were [...]

Indian Tribes Win Big In California Lawsuit

June 18th, 2009

June 2010 In an April 20, 2010 ruling that has not received the press attention that it deserves, the Ninth Circuit upheld a trial court [...]

Toxic Drywall Claims Could Be Next Large Wave Of Construction Litigation

May 18th, 2009

May 2009 The newest phase of “sick house” litigation appears to be here. Drywall imported from China is releasing sulfur compounds that provide a rotten [...]

Huge Fraud In Chinese Stocks

August 1st, 2008

June 2011 Investors in Chinese companies have depended upon outside auditors, institutional investors, and global investment banks as substantiation for the notion that their financial [...]

New Accountant Ethic Proposals Affect Use Of Your Client’s Outside Accountant, And Their Liability Under Malpractice Claims

September 17th, 2006

September 2006 In September 2006, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) issued proposed new ethics rulings.  Because these are reissued proposals that incorporate [...]