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Winston & Strawn LLP is opening a Brussels office in June, which will be led by antitrust and competition lawyer Peter Crowther. It will be the firm’s 16th office and the fifth in Europe.
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Mike Lynch, former chief executive officer at Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Autonomy unit, hired criminal defense lawyer Reid Weingarten and Sushovan Hussain, who was Autonomy’s finance chief, retained attorney John Keker, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Mike Lynch, former chief executive officer at Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Autonomy unit, hired criminal defense lawyer Reid Weingarten, while Sushovan Hussain, who was Autonomy’s finance chief, hired attorney John Keker, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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The Justice Department decision to sue Standard & Poor’s has investors asking why Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings weren’t targeted for awarding the same top grades to troubled mortgage bonds and other debt securities.
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San Francisco lawyer John Keker, the Vietnam War platoon leader who later prosecuted Oliver North and represented clients from Eldridge Cleaver to Lance Armstrong, may deploy his “slashing and smashing” approach to defend Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC.
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John Keker’s San Francisco law firm declares on its website that it takes the “the make or break cases where companies, careers and reputations are riding on the result.”
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Google Inc. rejected an offer by Sun Microsystems Inc to pay $100 million in royalties to use Java in its development of the Android operating system before Sun was acquired by Oracle Corp., a Google lawyer said.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is probing its role in the U.S. case against Aaron Swartz, the Internet activist who killed himself as he faced a federal computer-fraud trial and the possibility of jail.
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U.S. prosecutors handling computer- fraud charges against an Internet activist who killed himself last week had intended to recommend a sentence of six months, U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz in Boston said.
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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, said today that the prosecution of Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who killed himself while facing computer- fraud charges, was a “travesty of justice.”
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