Business Services Industry
Boston law firm must pay up to $9.3 million in dairy suit.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2004
By Bruce Mohl, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 7--A state judge has ordered the Boston law firm of Rubin and Rudman to pay $7.2 million plus as much as $2.1 million more in attorneys fees to settle charges that it negligently misrepresented the status of legal proceedings against its client, West Lynn Creamery, during negotiations to sell the dairy in 1998.
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Allan van Gestel ruled that Rubin and Rudman was aware of a federal kickback investigation of West Lynn Creamery in June 1998 when it issued an opinion letter to Dean Foods indicating that it had no knowledge of any suit or investigation involving the Massachusetts dairy. Opinion letters are often provided during sales negotiations to...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
