Olivier Metzner News
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Steptoe & Johnson LLP hired Markham Erickson as a partner in the telecom, Internet and media practice in the Washington office. He was previously at Holch & Erickson LLP, a firm he co-founded in 2006.
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Olivier Metzner, one of France’s best-known lawyers, was found dead from an apparent suicide, the prosecutor’s office in the Brittany city of Vannes said.
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Attorney Olivier Metzner says thousands of Societe Generale SA’s own computer records will clear his client, Jerome Kerviel, of responsibility for the bank’s record 4.9 billion-euro ($6 billion) trading loss, Bloomberg News’ Alan Katz and Heather Smith report.
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Jerome Kerviel was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to repay Societe Generale SA ’s 4.9 billion-euro ($6.8 billion) trading loss by a judge who said the former trader’s actions threatened the bank’s existence.
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Total SA and Chief Executive Officer Christophe de Margerie will fight charges stemming from the United Nations oil-for-food Iraq relief program scandal at a trial in Paris.
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Deutsche Bank AG salesman Jon-Paul Rorech didn’t illegally disclose information on a bond sale to a hedge-fund manager, a judge ruled in U.S. regulators’ first lawsuit alleging insider trading of credit-default swaps.
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A federal judge denied the U.S. government’s request to delay an order that allows deepwater oil drilling to resume while the U.S. notified an appeals court it would challenge the decision lifting the six-month moratorium.
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Recordings of L’Oreal SA heiress Liliane Bettencourt ’s conversations about political dealings and Swiss bank accounts may prompt the postponement of a trial over whether the 87-year-old was manipulated into giving a friend about a billion euros ($1.23 billion) in gifts.
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Jerome Kerviel was a “creation” of Societe Generale SA and should be cleared of charges related to the bank’s 4.9 billion-euro ($6 billion) loss, the former trader’s lawyer told a Paris court today.
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Continental Airlines Inc. won a bid to overturn its manslaughter conviction for the deaths of 113 people in the crash of Air France’s Concorde supersonic jet 12 years ago.
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