Bloomberg Law
Nov. 17, 2016, 1:14 PM UTC

Wake Up Call: Rio Tinto Fires Top Lawyer Amidst Probe

• Rio Tinto Group has fired its top legal official and other top executive amidst an investigation into a payment connected to a giant iron ore project in Guinea in West Africa. ( Bloomberg )

• Kevin O’Connor, the general counsel for Steven A. Cohen’s investment firm, has left President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team, an early casualty of a messy power struggle. ( Bloomberg )

• Trump’s election raises fears about the future of forgiveness programs for lawyers’ law school debt. ( Above The Law )

• Retired Jones Day attorney G. Roger King may be in line for a National Labor ...

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