Uber Are Messing With The “Avenging Angel” Lawyer
A lawyer described as the “avenging angel for labor” could be the face that Uber grows to fear. Shannon Liss-Riordan has already been christianed by the Boston Globe as the “avenging angel” for the...
View ArticleUS Marshalls Put Up Wanted Poster for IRS Evader
US Marshall Service – Please find attached a wanted poster and sentencing statements regarding Timothy (Tim) Stubbs, who failed to show for sentencing today on tax evasion charges. The sentencing...
View Article14 Plead Guilty In Massive NY Oxycodone and Heroin Conspiracy
LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas Zugibe, Rockland County District Attorney, James Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York...
View ArticleOrrick Advises on Womai.com’s US$220 Million Series C Financing
Lawfuel.com – Beijing, January 7, 2016 – Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe represented Womai.com in connection with its US$220 million Series C financing from Tai Kang Asset Management, Baidu, Dragon...
View ArticleFormer New York Cop Sentenced on Child Porn Offenses
LawFuel.com – Law News Service – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BRIAN FANELLI, the former Chief of the Mount Pleasant, New York, Police...
View ArticleAre Law Firms Going the Way Of Eastman Kodak?/feed
We have reported frequently here about the challenges facing law firms, with mergers, technology changes, billing practices and more. But now, yet another study has come out to show that law firms face...
View ArticleFTC
Sheppard Mullin – Lumos Labs recently paid $2 million to the FTC to settle claims that it deceived consumers about its brain training application’s ability to increase cognitive function. According to...
View ArticleSuperman Wins in Power of Parody Fight
Dorsey & Whitney – Superman has triumphed yet again, this time with help from the federal court in the Central District of California. It wasn’t actually Superman that scored this particular...
View ArticleHe Sought Military Training From Al Shabaab in Somalis and Now Faces Justice...
LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant...
View ArticleButler Snow Opens First Office in Asia
SINGAPORE, Jan. 11, 2016– Butler Snow, a law firm with more than 300 practicing lawyers and 18 offices throughout the U.S. and London, has opened its first office in Asia in Singapore and a virtual...
View ArticleThe Legal Year: A Quick Review
2015 has been a busy year legally with everything from earthquake litigation keeping the courts busy to regulatory changes in employment, health and financial markets. DLA Piper have reviewed the year...
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Will Judge Dawson Ruin Dotcom’s Christmas?
All eyes and ears will be on Judge Nevin Dawson today as he delivers his decision regarding the extradition of Kim Dotcom in a decision expected this afternoon. DCJ Dawson has been hearing the case for...
View ArticleProudly Kiwi Made
Russell McVeagh congratulates Powershop, a subsidiary of Meridian Energy, the Wellington based power company on the conclusion of its significant new agreement with UK-based electricity generator and...
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United States v. Dotcom & Others
Extracts from Judge Dawson’s 270 page judgment: On the Applicant’s Candour Duty of Candour and Good Faith [689] Throughout their submissions the respondents have raised many instances of what they...
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Dotcom’s Outstanding Legal Fees
Kim Dotcom still owes his former lawyers for legal fees, including now High Court Judge Paul Davison, but relations between former client and former lawyers remain cordial, he says. Dotcom lost his...
View ArticleNew Boutique Firm Celebrates in Auckland
A boutique law firm with strong Asian links and a former Robt Jones Investment s lawyer has been created in Auckland. Kirkland Morrison O’Callahan & Ho was launched this month with entertainers...
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Stacey Shortall: LawFuel’s Lawyer of the Year 2015
Former Wall Street lawyer Stacey Shortall is LawFuel’s lawyer of the year for 2015. A high flier who has flown back home Stacey Shortall has already received a “Women of Influence” award this year,...
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AMINZ Queenstown Conference – Details Here
Non-member registration has just opened for The Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand, AMINZ, conference. Limited places at available for this conference with the International Academy...
View ArticleAre Law Firms Facing Extinction?
New Zealand law firms face challenges similar to major US and UK law firms, but a new study shows that unless they adapt, lawyers may be going the way of the Dinosaur – or Eastman Kodak at least. The...
View ArticleNew Law Jobs on LawFuel
A range of new criminal law jobs have been listed by the New Zealand law jobs site and law news network at LawFuel. Among the jobs are those for both senior and junior criminal lawyers, as well as both...
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