Freshfields Report – World Bank Blacklists More Companies Than Ever
Increased activity establishes the World Bank as a major global regulatory player Healthcare, transport, agriculture, water and energy most impacted sectors North America, Latin American and the...
View ArticleWhy Lawyers Are Slowly Killing the Hourly Fees Habit
The death of the hourly fee has been predicted with varying degrees of confidence for some years – but will it ever happen? Well, it is occurring slowly but surely among a growing number of law firms...
View ArticleJustice Department Settles Sex Discrimination Lawsuit Against California...
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into a settlement agreement that, if approved by the court, will resolve allegations that the California Department of...
View ArticleThe H4 Visa Journey, are we finally going to see some good change?
LawFuel Exclusive: On April 28, 2014, the White House released a factsheet: ‘ Strengthening Entrepreneurship At Home and Abroad’, stating that the Department of Homeland Security will soon release...
View ArticleFormer Jutice Official Joins Arnold & Porter’s White Collar Defense Team
Arnold & Porter LLP announced today that Amy Jeffress, a former high-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice, has joined the firm as a partner in its White Collar Defense and National...
View ArticleArmenian Power Gang Leaders Convicted in Federal RICO Case
LOS ANGELES – Two leaders of the Armenian Power gang were convicted today of participating in a racketeering conspiracy that included extortion, firearms offenses, bank fraud and identity...
View ArticleIran To Forfeit Manhattan Office Tower & Others to US Government to Provide...
Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States entered into a settlement agreement with the holders of terrorism-related judgments...
View ArticleOverseas Bank Accounts: No Longer Safe from Long Arm of Internal Revenue Service
U.S. Citizens with Assets in Foreign Bank Accounts Seeking Help to Avoid Huge Financial Sanctions APRIL 17, 2014, St. Louis, Missouri, USA…U.S. citizens believing that their money is safe from...
View ArticleFailing Law Firms and The Risk of Hiring Laterals and Minimizing “Jewel” Risks
As more law firms fail the risk of hiring laterals has placed the hiring law firms in line for potential legal action by the bankruptcy trustee of the failed firm. Arnold & Porter partners wrote...
View ArticleDid The Celebrated Law Firm Conceal Black Lung Evidence?
A storm has erupted over the law firm at the center of the investigation of Jackson Kelly, the sponsor of a mining convention in Denver where Senator Joe Manchin, a close ally of the coal industry,...
View ArticleThe Reshaping of Law Firms From The Office Design Viewpoint
Office design is a key factor in workplace efficiency and a press release from architectural practise OTJ Architects indicates there is increased emphasis today upon efficiency of space usage...
View ArticleDUI For Pot Smoking Causes A Smokescreen For Lawmakers
Drunk driving law is one thing, but what about pot-smoking driving law? It’s an issue that States have been having to grapple with for some time, particularly since the move towards marijuana...
View ArticleChinese-Language Child Porn Operator Gets 10 Years
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that YONG WANG was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 210 months in prison for advertising in...
View ArticleFormer Inside-Trading Senior KPMG Partner Sentenced to Federal Prison
LOS ANGELES – A former senior partner at the accounting firm KPMG LLP was sentenced today to 14 months in federal prison for his involvement in an insider trading scheme in which he provided...
View ArticleGerman Company Sentenced to $1.25 Million Fine for Long Beach Mess
LOS ANGELES – A German company has been sentenced to pay a $1 million fine and another $250,000 to support environmental causes after pleading guilty to two felony environmental charges related...
View ArticleUK Law Merger Creates £100 Million National Firm
Law firm mergers are hardly anything new, but watching small firms grown into big ones is one of the trends encouraged through deregulated markets, like the UK legal market. And so the most recent...
View ArticleThe Lawyers as a Product: Increasing Productivity in 3 Easy Steps
Lawyers need to be regarded as the “product”, something that can be both supported and challenged in a way that will lead to great productivity. In Inside Counsel, Kevin Long looks at the three key...
View ArticleGold Market Turmoil Places Focus on The Best Gold Storage Vaults – And Where...
LawFuel Contributor – Turmoil in the financial markets has seen fast-growing investor interest in gold investment. However changes in US regulations have seen gold investors in the U.S. facing major...
View ArticleScam Lawsuits Trouble BP
Oil giant BP is high incensed at the increasing so-called “fraud tally” on its website detailing fraudulent claims made by those seeking to recover supposed losses arising from the Deepwater Horizon...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Family Friendly Law Firms
Women in law continues to be an area of growing interest – not just for women but also for the law profession. And so Yale’s “Women in Law” report on the Top 10 Family Friendly law firms is a matter of...
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