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Matthew Kluger worked for several big law firms and learned about pending mergers. He and a friend alerted a day trader who bought shares of the companies. After the deals went public, they split the profits.

Andrew Harrer, Bloomberg

Every dawn in the early spring of 2011, Matthew Kluger peered out his window, wondering when federal agents would knock at his door. Kluger, a mergers-and- acquisitions lawyer, says he worried that authorities were closing in on him as the source of illegal tips in a three-man insider-trading ring that had eluded detection for 17 years.

The knock came on April 6. U.S. agents handcuffed Kluger, hustled him into a Dodge Intrepid, drove to the Federal Bureau of Investigation office in Manassas, Va., and laid out the

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A weathered black square adorned with white filigrees and embellished in curvy familiar type, giving off a whiff of aged alcohol and good old-fashioned southern appeal. Sounds just like a bottle of Jack Daniel’s — or maybe the cover of a top-selling novel at Amazon.com?

When Louisville, Ky., resident Patrick Wensink released his third novel, Broken Piano for President, earlier this year through the small indie publisher Lazy Fascist Press, he probably didn’t expect to find himself embroiled in a top-shelf intellectual property infringement matter.

The cover of his book is nearly identical to the iconic label on the Jack Daniel’s whiskey bottle: the flourishes curl just like Jack Daniel’s handlebar mustache, and the book itself is labeled “40 percent alcohol by volume” — the same as JD’s traditional proof. In fact, the

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Bruce Moorhead will work out of Jones Day’s offices in New York and Atlanta.

Banking lawyer Bruce Moorhead Jr. has left Hunton Williams for a partnership at Jones Day.

He said he made the move after nine years as a partner at Hunton Williams for the opportunity to work with a global firm with an extensive banking and finance practice.

Moorhead, who represents financial institutions in corporate loan transactions, said Jones Day, which he joined on July 1, has a “deep bench” in that area, with more than 150 lawyers worldwide in its banking and finance practice.

He said

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Insurance companies and those who represent them say a recent 4-3 ruling presents insurers with difficult choices.

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