Cleary Gottlieb Advises Coca Cola on $1.2 Billion Deal
Lawfuel.com – Best Law News Site – Cleary Gottlieb is advising The Coca-Cola Company on the antitrust aspects of its $1.2 billion acquisition of a 10% equity stake in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters,...
View ArticleCountry Lawyer Takes On Wall Street . . And Wins
A small-time country lawyer from Missouri has taken on the biggest on Wall Street – mortgage fraud, again – and won. So how did David Wasinger, who had visited the city twice in his life, once when he...
View ArticleDotcom Raid on Mansion Ruled Legal, Despite the FBI
The ongoing saga over the attempted extradition from New Zealand of Kim Dotcom continues to wend its way through the New Zealand courts with a Court of Appeal judgment showing the 2012 raid was in...
View Article$20 Million Medicare Fraud over Bogus Anti-Psychotic Drugs
LOS ANGELES – Three people linked to a Glendale medical clinic – including a doctor who took money to let his name be used thousands times on bogus prescriptions – were found guilty today of...
View ArticleKim Jong Un – The New Hitler
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is running a torture and extermination system under his repressive rule on the same level as Hitler’s Germany. So says a Unitede Nations report from former eminent...
View ArticleManatt Phelps Extends East Coast Litigation Practice
WASHINGTON, D.C. – LawFuel.com – Best Law News Site – Feb. 18, 2014 – Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that Andrew Zimmitti has joined the Washington, D.C., office as a partner in the...
View ArticleJimmy Fallon’s NBC Hit . . And The Attorney He Mocked
It appears Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show was a hit, proven already perhaps by his sending attorney Scott Hoy’s commercials viral last year and proving he can achieve the ratings NBC want for the lively...
View ArticleWarning for Lady Lawyers: Career Dangers Ahead
Women-in-law has become one of the central issues facing the law profession, if you can put aside increased competition, threats to BigLaw and suchlike. Women, for instance, are twice as likely to...
View ArticleFive Things We Can Learn from TV’s Worst Lawyer—Barry Zuckercorn
Lawyers on television are a dime a dozen. You can find excellent lawyers like Perry Mason, unethical but effective lawyers like Saul Goodman, or eloquent lawyers like Jackie Chiles. But none of them...
View ArticleLawyer Attacks Catholic Church Over Clerical Sexual Abuse
A Minnesota lawyer has attacked the Catholic Church over their list of accused abusers provided by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis released the names of nine priests Monday, saying none...
View ArticleNO – Gwyneth Paltrow Was NOT Cheating with the Lawyer
It took the rumors of an affair between an actress and a lawyer to establish – as if we really needed it – that social media is the way to go when it comes to spreading rumors at light-speed. The...
View ArticleJones Day Expands in Australia
Washington, DC — The global law firm Jones Day has announced that it will open an office in Perth, the mining and energy center of Australia, in April of this year. The Perth Office will initially...
View ArticleBogus Movie Investment Scheme Results in Six Indictments
LOS ANGELES – Four people were arrested today on federal fraud charges stemming from telemarketing operations that allegedly solicited investments in movies with false promises of high returns with...
View ArticleLohan Defamed by Fox News, Lawyer Claims
Fox News have received a lawyer’s letter from Lindsay Lohan’s attorney in respect of an alleged defamatory comment made about Lohan’s mother on the Channel’s “Great American Panel”. Fox News guest...
View ArticleKiev Battles See Law Firms Closing
As Kiev erupts in flames and to cries of “Glory to Ukraine!” law firms and others are leaving town, or at least closing their offices temporarily. The city is now seeing thousands of riot police armed...
View ArticleSeattle DUI Attorney Offers No-Cost Phone Consultations
Law office of Raymond W Ejarque will now provide no-cost telephonic consultation in DUI cases in Seattle any of the day. This will provide the drivers accused of violation of DUI laws proper legal...
View ArticleThe Emotional Journey of a Plaintiff
Even if you are a licensed attorney, a lawsuit can still be a stressful and overwhelming experience. Most people recognize how difficult it can be for the defendant to be put on trial. But the...
View ArticleCEO of Luggage Company Packed Lies & Phony Invoices to Banks for Porche and...
Former CFO of Company Previously Pled Guilty in Connection With Same Scheme Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant...
View ArticleThe “Rugrat” Lawsuit – The Wolf of Wall Street’s Hairpiece Lawsuit
It was a hit film, but “The Wolf of Wall Street” has now spawned a bitter lawsuit from a lawyer who alleges defamation over the character Nicky “rugrat” Roskoff, alleging that the character in the...
View ArticleIRS In Dispute Over Fertility Treatment Payment
A dispute between the IRS and a donor of eggs for fertility treatment was a matter that should properly be regarded as being similar to a personal injury lawsuit settlement, according to Nichelle Perez...
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