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Fearing catastrophic jury verdicts for malpractice, many professionals are increasingly using liability-limiting language -- particularly waivers of punitive damages and alternate dispute resolution agreements. The current trend of the law seems increasingly toward allowing professionals to limit their liability through contractual agreement, but several regulatory agencies prohibit their use in certain circumstances. When an accountant is performing ordinary commercial services, such as management consultancy, there is no special concern, and liability-limiting language ought to be routinely enforced. The auditor-client relationship is not a fiduciary one, and the client risks only economic harm, not physical injury or death. If an agreement between an accountant and client turns out t...
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BOSTON -- CRA International, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAI), a worldwide leader in providing management, economic, and financial consulting services, today annou...
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Proprietary analytical method helps corporations improve returns by up to 300%, despite sluggish economy. Firm of 40 experts will be headquartered in ...
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RESTON, Va., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Clayton Consultants, a global risk and crisis management consultancy, today announced the continuation of its partnership with Chartis, a leading property- casualty and general insurance organization.
Chartis relies on Clayton's consultants to assist its clients with the prevention and resolution of crises related to kidnap for ransom, extortion, malicious product tampering and wrongful detention.
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ZUG, Switzerland -- Foster Wheeler AG (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that Foster Wheeler USA Corporation, part of its Global Engineering and Construct...
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Data Processing: Baseline Consulting, a Sherman Oaks data management consultancy, has been acquired by DataFlux, a Cary, N.C., provider of data manage...
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LONDON -- Arthur D. Little (ADL) - the global management consultancy linking strategy, technology and innovation - has been honoured in DealMakers Glo...
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Before Indra Nooyi became CEO of PepsiCo Inc. or Vikram Pandit took the reins at Citigroup Inc. there was, the original "global Indian" who was the first to head a major Western business.
More than 17 years after first being elected head of McKinsey & Co., the management consultancy, Mr. Gupta waslast week in part of the same insider trading investigation that saw his friend, hedge fund manager,to 11 years in prison, the longest-ever sentence in such a case.
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BATON ROUGE, La. -- The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SHAW) today announced it has been awarded a contract by Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (Takreer) to pro...
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BATON ROUGE, La. -- Fourth graph, first sentence of release should read: The undisclosed value of the contract will be included in Shaw's Energy & Che...