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May 1, 2015

Tax strategies: Can a wealthy, sophisticated investor be defrauded by his lawyers?

Jones Swanson spends a good bit of its commercial litigation group’s energy focused on a particular niche of litigation over tax strategies which have been found by the Internal Revenue Service to have been abusive. No matter how many times we are involved in these cases on behalf of those…

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April 1, 2015

Commercial Litigation

Jury reaches verdict in first of many cases brought by Stanford receiver against former Stanford insiders

A jury trial was held last month in federal court in Dallas against Peter Romero, a former U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador and former advisor to R. Allen Stanford. The Romero trial represented the first of a dozen trials scheduled for 2015 and 2016 in cases brought by the Stanford receiver,…

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January 26, 2015

Environmental Litigation Commercial Litigation

Massey Energy CEO faces criminal indictment for impeding federal regulators

Few thought that the politically powerful chief executive of West Virginia’s Massey Energy would face criminal charges stemming from a 2010 explosion that killed 29 workers at the Upper Big Branch coal mine. But a November grand jury indictment took cynics by surprise. The indictment’s accusations are many. Don Blankenship,…

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