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Massive No-Fault Auto Insurance Fraudster “Russian Mike” Convicted
LawFuel.com – Law News Daily – Racketeering Included Massive No-Fault Automobile Insurance Fraud Scheme, Securities Fraud Schemes, Money Laundering, and Operating Illegal Gambling Businesses Preet...
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“Top Gear” Fracas Gets Lawyers and Four Letter Words
The debacle encircling the BBC over the television “Top Gear” fracas involving Jeremy Clarkson has seen the lawyers enter the fray and Clarkson launching an expletive laden tirade against the...
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Ainsworth-Norbord Merger Approved by Department of Justice
Skadden advised Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. and its majority owner Brookfield Asset Management Inc. in securing antitrust approval from the U.S. Department of Justice for Ainsworth’s $667 million merger...
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The Patent Lawyer Who Can’t Stop Inventing
Martin Schweiger of Schweiger & Partners is a German patent lawyer who moved to Singapore literally hours before the 9/11 attacks were launched. He searched over 30 countries before deciding to...
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Obama Attacks Over Holding Attorney General Nominee “Hostage”
President Barack Obama accused Senate Republicans of holding his attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch “hostage”, saying it is inexcusable to use her in order to bargain for separate legislation. The...
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Daughter of Mexican Mafia Gang Leader Acted as Conduit to LA Gang
LOS ANGELES – The daughter of a Mexican Mafia member who acted as the conduit between her father and South Los Angeles street gangs he controlled from state prison was sentenced today to 15 years in...
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Global & M&A Report
Skadden Arps – Global M&A activity jumped in 2014, with over 40,000 tracked transactions totaling approximately $3.5 trillion in value.1 This represents the biggest year for M&A since 2007, the...
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Allen & Overy acts on first ever Korean Finance Lease for new Airbus A380
LONDON – LawFuel.com – Allen & Overy has advised Etihad Airways, the UAE’s national carrier, on an innovative and ground breaking transaction which has seen Korean financial institutions provide a...
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Why Lawyers are Last on The Start Up List of “Must Haves”
It’s an age of the ‘startup’, the transformational, entrepreneurial success story (we hope) company that lawyers an help develop into the potential the investors see in their Big Idea. But what can...
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Angelina Jolie’s Clooney Snub & Surgery
Angelina Jolie’s recent surgery to have ovaries removed was accompanied by news that she had snubbed Amal Clooney, the human rights lawyer and wife of actor George Clooney. The reported snub in OK...
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RMA Reforms Bigger Than Just Auckland Housing Market
Chapman Tripp – Auckland is now ranked the ninth least affordable major city in the world on the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, with median house prices sitting at...
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The Secret To Cutting Crime: Fire Your Police Department
Dropping crime generally means good policing and everything else that entails. But in the case of Texas town Sharpstown it meant firing the town police department and hiring a private security firm....
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The Profits-per-Partner Holy Grail Metric for Law Firms
Profits-per-partner is the golden metric that top law firms, or those aspiring to increase profits, place as their holy grail. So it should come as little surprise that the top law firms in the US keep...
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Bank Executive Indicted for Embezzlement
DENVER – Candice L. White, age 42, of Centennial, Colorado, is scheduled to appear before a U.S. Magistrate Judge this afternoon after a federal grand jury in Denver indicted her on charges of...
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New York Personal Injury Law Firm Among 2015’s Best Law Firms For Fifth Year
For the fifth consecutive year, Levy Konigsberg LLP, a nationally-acclaimed New York personal injury law firm with offices in New York City, White Plains, Albany, NY, as well as in New Jersey and...
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Lawyer Authors Treatise on Technology Transaction Agreements
Ann Arbor –March 24, 2015– Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that Mark Malven, Ann Arbor and Bloomfield Hills-based member, authored a treatise published by the Practising Law...
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Violent Drug Offender “Luchie” Jailed for Murder-for-Hire Conspiracies
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROGER KEY, a/k/a “Luchie,” a violent and large-scale drug trafficker who operated in Manhattan and the...
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Germanwings’ Potentially Massive Legal Liability
Aviation lawyers and others are predicting a very large payout over the Germanwings crash, particularly if the airline fails to defend itself against negligence claims in respect of the ill co-pilot...
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Frustrating Law Firms: Face Up To Hacking Threats
Regulators and corporates are frustrated by the law profession’s unwillingness to acknowledge the problems they face with hacking issues. A hacked database of clients that results in the theft of...
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ED Cure With Exercise . . Can It Work?
Erectile dysfunction affects over 18 million American men alone, quite apart from the many millions elsewhere. It is also an area that has lead to lawsuits and legal claims relating to the alleged...
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