Sheldon Silver’s Problems
New York State Assembly State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver has created a major problem for a range of people and institutions ranging from law firms, the Assembly to himself The spider’s web is...
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21 Day Rapid Fat Loss Review Program: 21 Day Rapid Fat Loss Authors: Rob King & Danielle Rideout Program link: Click here Bonuses? Yes, at this link Guarantee: 60 Days Price: $21 Summary:...
View ArticleSan Jose Woman Who Ran $24 Million Ponzi Scheme Jailed
SANTA ANA, California – A San Jose woman who was convicted running a Ponzi scheme that bilked over 200 victims out of more than $24 million was sentenced today to serve 151 months in federal prison....
View ArticleAkerman Grows Chicago Office with Healthcare Lawyer Jane McCahill
CHICAGO — LawFuel.com – Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced that Jane McCahill has joined the firm’s growing Chicago office as a partner in the...
View ArticleDykema’s Dallas Office Adds Veteran Real Estate Attorney Bob Feroze
Detroit – LawFuel.com – Law Directory and Law News – January 28, 2015 – Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Zammurad H. (Bob) Feroze to its Real Estate Practice Group...
View ArticleMapping consumer protection
Browse the interactive map, below, to find out how different markets approach consumer protection. Six key trends, likely to present challenges to consumer-facing businesses, are introduced where...
View ArticleHogan Lovell’s 25 Hours a Year Citizenship Policy
Hogan Lovells has launched a ground-breaking Global Citizenship Policy, which asks everyone at the firm to devote at least 25 hours a year to citizenship activities. Accommodations will be made so...
View ArticleNYC-Funded Law Firm in Rap Video Calling for Cop Killing
Rap music, lawyers and police killings would seem to be something of a cocktail that risks the wrath of the public and a NYC investigation has revealed that at least two lawyers with the Bronx...
View ArticleLaw Firm Branding Sees Skaddens Top Position Challenged
Mega-law firm Skadden Arps remains the strongest law brand in the world, according to the latest brand survey undertaken by the Law Firm Brand Index survey run by Acritas. However, the margin between...
View ArticleUK Law Firm’s Talent & Tech Investment Pays Off
Northern UK law firm Brabners, with 65 partners and offices in Manchester, Liverpool and Preston, grew its fee income to £30.2m in the 12 months to April 30 2014, resulting from an investment in both...
View ArticleUS Attorney Statement on Conviction of Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht
LawFuel.com – “As a unanimous jury has found, Ross William Ulbricht operated Silk Road – a clandestine global marketplace that offered buyers and sellers of illegal goods and services a promise of...
View ArticleThe California Foie Gras Ruling That Stirs Emotions
Many issues reach the appellate courts and many are literally life and death. But the California foie gras prohibition has now become the subject of a notice to appeal a recent district court ruling...
View Article“Greed Overpowering Judgment” Says US Attorney Over Commodities Fraud
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ALEX V. EKDESHMAN, the Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Management, LLC, pleaded guilty today...
View ArticleED Treatment – Not the POM Way Says Law Settlement
Erectile dysfunction cures and treatments are a hot marketing item, but an appeals court has forbidden POM Wonderful from advertising the supposed benefits of its products as something to cure ED,...
View ArticleKaty Perry’s Lawyers Bite Over Sharks
Katy Perry’s lawyers, Greeberg Traurig have bitten over her “Left Shark” dancing image seen in the Super Bowl act from the pop sensation, requesting a 3-D print sculpture sold online be taken offline –...
View ArticleRockTenn’s $16 Billion Combination Agreement with MWV
Cravath – On January 26, 2015, Rock-Tenn Company (“RockTenn”) and MeadWestvaco Corporation (“MWV”) announced that they have entered into a definitive combination agreement to create a leading global...
View ArticleWhen Googling Can Cause a Mistrial
DLA Piper, Australia – By James Morse – In the recent decision of Le v Magistrate Barbara Lane [2014] WASC 494, the Supreme Court of Western Australia was called upon to consider whether to prohibit a...
View ArticleLegal Issues for Cloud Computing
Quinn Emanuel – In the May 2014 issue of the Business Litigation Report, we discussed a hot topic in law and technology: cloud computing. That topic did not cool down over the summer. Businesses and...
View Article2014 Year in Review: SEC Municipal Market Enforcement
Ballard Spahr by John C. Grugan and Tesia N. Stanl The most significant enforcement strategy the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) employed in 2014 followed a well-worn path: through its...
View ArticleMore Clifford Chance Partners Move to Lovells
Latham & Watkins appears to have been enjoying a field day raiding Clifford Chance for new partners, with the latest being two CC partners in the German officie, Olliver Felsenstein and Burc Hesse....
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