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Mayer Brown Has Former Exxon Mobil Inhouse Counsel Strengthen Energy Practise
Houston, 9 March 2015 – Mayer Brown announced today that Francisco Mendez has joined the firm as a partner in its Global Energy practice. Previously, he spent nearly 20 years at ExxonMobil...
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50 Ways To Market Your Law Firm
Alright, you’re sick and tired of being told how to market your law practise. Fair enough, but when it comes to cheap and effective – AKA “Simple” – ways to market your practise you’d want to know,...
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How To Use Google Flights For Cheap Travel
We all want cheap air tickets, but now there’s a powerful new ally whose ridden to our rescuse – none other than our good friend Google. As Men’s Journal report: Travel booking sites like Kayak,...
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How One Law Firm Achieved Gender Parity
Gender parity is a lofty goal for many law firms, but the cruel truth is that most don’t achieve it. Not so for Canadian law firm Lerners LLP though. The Toronto litigation firm has 55 per cent women...
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Litigator Michael Marsh Honored as One of The Most Influential Black Lawyers
MIAMI — LawFuel.com – Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced partner Michael Marsh with the Litigation Practice Group was honored as one of the Most...
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Why Two “Old Lawyers” Didn’t Want to Leave the Law
We hear a lot about gender issues but what about ageism: when lawyers get “to old” to continue with their firm? Is it fair? After all, everyone ages differently and a lawyer with five or six decades of...
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The Blurred Lines Legal Precedent
Music-copying has been a rich source of legal work for many years, but the $7.4 million awarded to Marvin Gaye’s children over the Blurred Lines hit has also been a legal precedent hit. The jury made...
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The Regulation of Virtual, Digital and Crypto-currencies
Cooley LLP Introduction: currencies, money and e-money1 A virtual currency is “a digital representation of value that is neither issued by a central bank or public authority nor necessarily attached to...
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Akerman’s Latin America & the Caribbean Practice Recognized by Chambers...
Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced Chambers Global has once again recognized the firm’s Latin America & the Caribbean Practice as among the...
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Polluting Exide Technologies Facility in East LA To Be Closed
Facility that has Polluted East L.A. for over 90 Years will be Cleaned Up Pursuant to Agreement Designed to Allow Exide to Emerge from Bankruptcy LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com The United States...
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Coca Cola Completes Landmark Offering
Skadden Arps – LawFuel.com – Skadden represented The Coca-Cola Company in an €8.5 billion offering of notes — the largest-ever euro-denominated notes offering by a U.S. issuer, which closed March 9....
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End of La Cosa Nostra? US Attorney Wants to Reduce it To “Movie Myth”
US Attorney Preet Bharara has announced the potential end of La Cosa Nostra with the guilty plea of former capo Daniel Pagano. The release from the US Attorney: Preet Bharara, the United States...
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“Net Neutrality” and the FCC’s Regulatory “Crap”
Mike Young is an internet law specialist and principal in MikeYoungLaw who assists entrepreneurs and internet companies. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), relying upon a 1934 law, just...
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Swedish Prosecutors To Talk To Assange in London
Swedish prosecutors are to travel to Britain to question the holed-up WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over allegations of sexual assault. Assange has been taking refuge in London’s Ecuadorean Embassy...
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Why Are Women Not Leading in Law Firms?
Like many publications involved in the legal media, the Lawyer in the UK has been asking why so few women make to senior roles? Specifically, The Lawyer asked, why do they not make senior management...
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Are Law Firms Making The Same Hiring Mistakes as Always?
Are law firms refusing or failing to learn the lessons from the slowdown – particularly litigation firms which appear to have largely overlooked the changing marketplace and expectations from clients?...
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Department of Labor Expands FMLA Coverage for Same-Sex Spouses
Snell & Wilmer – Jennifer R Phillips – Same-sex spousal rights, particularly in the area of employment law, are in a state of flux. This conundrum will hopefully be resolved later this year when...
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“Buffy” Actor In Trouble
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” actor Nicholas Brendon is in trouble again having been arrested in Florida on charges of criminal mischief and property damage after attending an ALT*Con festival. Evidently...
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Key Rules for Handling a Cyber Attack
The growth in cyber attacks upon companies, highlighted by the problems Sony Pictures recently experienced, has also heightened the need for more education about what companies need to do in order to...
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Freshfields Advises HKBN Ltd and CVC Capital on US$750m IPO
LawFuel.com -International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised HKBN Ltd. (HKBN) and CVC Capital Partners (CVC) on HKBN’s US$750m IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. HKBN is the parent...
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