Julie Beck

Antitrust precedent may be set in Chinese vitamin C settlement

By Julie Beck | May 22, 2012

A groundbreaking antitrust case is taking place over something so small as a vitamin.
Don’t draw male genitalia during depositions at Dunkin Donuts

By Julie Beck | May 21, 2012

It’s good to stay in touch with your inner child, but a Florida attorney is perhaps too well-acquainted with his inner 13-year-old boy.
Lori Elliot Jarvis named a 2012 Influential Woman of Virginia

By Julie Beck | May 18, 2012

Virginia Lawyers Weekly has named Lori Elliott Jarvis, a partner at Hunton & Williams, one of its 2012 Influential Women of Virginia.
Law firm leaders expect permanent change to the industry

By Julie Beck | May 17, 2012

The times, they are a’changin’. For everyone, but for the legal industry in particular.
Woman hit by Coca-Cola driver on cell phone awarded $24 million

By Julie Beck | May 16, 2012

A Texas jury recently awarded $24 million ($10 million in punitive damages and $14 million in actual damage) to a woman who was injured by a Coca-Cola driver talking on her cell phone.
District court dismisses many of Chevron’s claims against Ecuador

By Julie Beck | May 15, 2012

The saga of Chevron carries on, with a district court’s Monday announcement that it would allow the oil giant to continue with its lawsuit against the U.S. legal adviser to Ecuador, Steven Donziger.
JPMorgan’s $2 billion trading loss brings efficacy of the Volcker Rule to light

By Julie Beck | May 14, 2012

As we all have probably already heard, last Thursday JPMorgan Chase lost $2 billion in trading, leaving the financial world reeling and many wondering if the Volcker Rule will have any effect at all.
More law firms may end up like Dewey, Forbes says

By Julie Beck | May 11, 2012

When it comes to Dewey & LeBoeuf, we’ve been like gawkers driving slowly past a car crash, our morbid fascination at times overwhelming the tragedy of the long-established firm’s slow and painful demise.
Internal investigators not protected from retaliation

By Julie Beck | May 10, 2012

No good deed goes unpunished, so they say, and that’s certainly the case in Wednesday’s 2nd Circuit ruling
AIG fraud case cleared for trial

By Julie Beck | May 9, 2012

New York’s fraud case against former American International Group (AIG) CEO Maurice Greenberg has been cleared for trial as of Tuesday.