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Law Firm Announces Clippers Sale for Shelly Sterling
Greenberg Glusker today confirmed its representation of Shelly Sterling in the historic $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball franchise to Steve Ballmer. The Sterling family has owned...
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Steve Ballmer’s Big Deal
Steve Ballmer’s purchase of the LA Clippers for $2 billion is the biggest NBA deal ever and a big deal for the former Microsoft Chief Executive who is used to big deals. The Clippers sale was...
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Former Public Defender Gets Jailed For Collecting Dead Grandmother’s Social...
RIVERSIDE, California – An Upland attorney was sentenced today to one year and one day in federal prison for stealing $129,795 from the Social Security Administration (SSA) after her grandmother died...
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Weil Represent American Securities in Acquisition of Grede Holdings
American Securities LLC, a leading U.S. private equity firm, today announced its acquisition of Grede Holdings LLC in partnership with the Company’s management team. Grede is a leading manufacturer of...
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Renowned Litigator Joins Edwards Wildman
June 2, 2014 (Morristown, New Jersey) – The law firm of Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP is pleased to announce that James E. Tyrrell, Jr. has joined the firm as a partner resident in Morristown, New Jersey...
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Man Who Traded Inside Information from KPMG Partner Jailed
Bryan Shaw, the owner of an Encino jewelry store who made about $1.6 million trading on inside information obtained from a then-senior partner at KPMG, was sentenced today to federal prison. United...
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“The Food Court”– Class Actions in The Food & Beverage Label Arena
The plaintiffs’ bar continues to file consumer class actions challenging food and beverage labels en masse, especially in the Northern District of California—also known as the “Food Court.” One...
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Law Firm Failure and the Fees That Follow . .
The issue of fees and who is entitled to them is central to just about any law firm’s identity and life. But in the case of some of the largest-ever law firm failures – Coudert Brothers, Thelen LLP and...
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New Zealand’s Top Arbitrators’ List
The massive growth in dispute resolution, mediation and arbitration in recent years has focused increased attention on the lawyers who are playing a central role in the development of these key areas...
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Obama Breaks Law Over Bergdahl Release
President Obama broke the law with his deal over Bowe Bergdahl’s release. That’s the clear sentiment – confidently expressed in multiple corners of the media over the Obama administration’s failure to...
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Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP Celebrates 20th Anniversary in Tampa
Tampa, FL – June 3, 2014 – The national law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that its Tampa, Florida office is celebrating its 20th anniversary. “I’ll always remember the...
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IP Lawyer Joins Quarles & Brady’s Intellectual Property Practice Group
CHICAGO, ILL. (May 30, 2014) — The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP today announced that John R Linzer has joined the firm’s Chicago office as an associate in the Intellectual Property...
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Lawyer’s Facebook Attack on “Anti Semite” Judge
Courtroom outbursts go with the territory in terms of testy exchanges between attorney and Judge, but when Las Vegas lawyer Jacob Hafter was denied a motion to alter a trial date due to a conflicting...
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Hollywood Businessman Arrested on Tax Charges
LOS ANGELES – The former CEO of Axium International, Inc., which was a leading Hollywood payroll services company until its collapse in 2008, has been arrested on federal tax charges that allege he...
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LA Doctor in Massive Medicare Fraud Scheme
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles physician who operates a medical clinic in Hollywood was indicted today for a $33 million scheme to defraud Medicare, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell...
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Justice Dept. To Review The Music Licensing Business
There are changes – legal changes – coming to the music business with a new beat that digital music services may need to hum to in future. The US Department of Justice is taking a hard look at the...
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Supreme Court Unanimously Overrules Federal Circuit Court Decision in Akamai
By Scott F. Llewellyn and Ryan J. Malloy In a unanimous and unequivocal opinion, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that liability for inducement of patent infringement requires that the induced entity...
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New York Tax Lawyer Injuncted to Prevent Abusive Tax Shelter Deals
The New York US Attorney Preet Bharara has taken steps to prevent New York attorney Harold Levine from promoting “abusive tax shelters” as head of law firm Herrick Feinstein LLP, although the lawyer is...
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George Jung, Wolf of Cocaine Street, Released
The latest celebrity prisoner to be “outed” – that is, released from custody, is “Blow” movie centerpiece George Jung who featured in the 2001 movie played by Johnny Depp and now free after almost two...
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Hotels, Hotel? The Chain . . Or the Boutique?
The travel market is huge and competitive. But when you’re travelling what is your preference – the hotel chain, or the cute boutique? I guess we’ve already given away our bias there. The cute...
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