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The WILL Power of London Lady Lawyers
London women lawyers are up in arms, or at least taking their will to succeed to a new level with the creation of Women in Law London (WILL), a group designed to redress the gender balance in top law...
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Texas Allowed Voter ID Laws
From the Wall Street Journal – The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday allowed Texas to enforce its voter identification law for the Nov. 4 midterm elections, denying emergency requests from the Obama...
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Facebook Bites Back: DLA Piper Lined Up
Facebook – like any big, juicy, rich corporate – is a very large target for lawsuits from all comers. And one of the ‘comers’ is now facing the music as the social network files claim against him for...
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Orrick establishes Abidjan presence to provide on-the-ground support for...
October 21, 2014 – Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is pleased to announce the opening of an affiliated office in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The office, which is operating under the name Orrick RCI,...
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Five Years’ Jail for Pistorius
Oscar Pistorious has draswn a five year imprisonment term for the killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The sentence was passed by Judge Thokozile Masipa, who spoke of the paraolympian’s “gross...
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Toxic Waste Site Leads to Settlement of Superfund Claims Against Getty Petroleum
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Judith A. Enck, Regional Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), announced today that...
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Task Force Takes Down Major Heroin Drug Trafficking Organization
DENVER – The Front Range Task Force, working with the U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Drug Enforcement Administration, Denver Police Department, Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office,...
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Behind the Appointment of Ebola Czar Ron Kain
Who – exactly – is the new “Ebola Czar” Ron Kain? An insider? A crony? Certainly a lawyer. Politico’s Mike Allen writes that Kain, due to start his new job on Wednesday, is also in line to replace...
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Ebola and Issues for Employers
Proscauer Rose partner Scott Faust writes about the issues for employers arising from the Ebola panic. The Ebola panic presently sweeping the U.S. raises a host of potential issues for employers. We...
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Bingham McCutchen Latest Big Law Firm Facing Trouble
Boston-based law firm Bingham McCutchen is the latest law firm facing problems, after partners have defected and the 123 year old firm with a proud history faces declining fortunes and an uncertain...
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PI and Former NYPD Officer Arrested in Bribery Scheme
Private Investigator Also Charged With Fraudulently Billing Federal Criminal Defense Fund Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant...
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Riviera Beach Behavior Support Assistant Arrested for Defrauding Medicaid Out...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.— Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office today arrested Janese Jiles, 29, for allegedly defrauding the Florida Medicaid...
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Woman Who Wrote Ground-Breaking “Bible”
The law firm deal between China-based King & Wood and RJ Berwin saw a “Bible” produced by Rachel Reid, who shepherded the merger with her deal document that outlined every step along the way....
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50 Ways to Market Your Small Law Practice
Lawyer Terry Berger, who practices in Westminster, MD, has advice for lawyers as to how to market a small law practice. Here – to get you started – are 50 tips from the ABA Journal 1. Join your local...
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The Lawyer and the Pleading-For-Sex Case
Begging for sex is one thing (we guess), but begging for it 78 times in one hour is just a tad excessive, but this lawyer has already copped $100,000 fine an eight month suspension, which has been...
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Michigan Attorney Loses Licence for Cocaine Use
The law license of Terry Joel Nolan, one of Muskegon’s highest-profile trial attorneys, has been suspended for three years because of his 2013 cocaine-use conviction, reports Michigan Live. The...
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Law Firm Leaves Law Library Behind – A Sign of the Times
One of the greatest attributes of any great law firm are the shelves of legal volumes and those rich-smelling and somewhat musty books that create the atmosphere we all love in a real law office. No...
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Mortgage Broker Sentenced for Masterminding Multimillion Dollar Loan Fraud
SAN DIEGO – Donald V. Totten – who had previously operated a lucrative mortgage business from his Rancho Santa Fe home – was sentenced today to 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Michael M....
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CoCos Coming of Age
Davis Polk – MONEY HANDBOOKS 56Cocos: Coming of age? by Jeffrey M. Oakes and Connie I. Milonakis, Davis Polk & Wardwell London LLP1 Background CoCos are capital instruments (Tier 2) or perpetual...
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The Dawn Raid – Being Prepared Is the Name of the Game
Clifford Chance -This article first appeared in the French daily financial newspaper ‘Les Echos’ on September 2, 2014 based on an interview with Clifford Chance partner Thomas Baudesson and counsel...
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