Social Media Marketing for Lawyers – Proceed With Caution
The American Bar Association’s recent webinar “The Ethics of Legal Marketing in a Social Media Age” indicated that lawyers using Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlook need to proceed with...
View ArticleChristopher Brown Joins Blakes Pensions, Benefits & Executive Compensation Group
CALGARY (MAY 27, 2013) – Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), one of Canada’s leading business law firms, today announced that Christopher Brown has joined the Firm’s Calgary office. “Our...
View ArticleClifford Chance advises Carrefour in the reorganization of partnership with...
The Carrefour Group recently announced the sale of its 25% stake in Majid Al Futtaim Hypermarkets for €530 million to its regional partner, Majid Al Futtaim Holding. Partners since 1995, Carrefour...
View ArticleFormer Senior KPMG Partner Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading
Former Chief of KPMG’s Audit Practice in Southwest Admits He Passed Confidential Information in Exchange for Cash Bribes LOS ANGELES– A former senior partner at the accounting firm KPMG LLP has...
View ArticleWal-Mart To Pay $81 Million in Nationwide Settlement Over Federal...
Wal-Mart Admits Violating Criminal and Civil Laws Designed to Protect Water Quality and to Ensure Proper Handling of Hazardous Wastes and Pesticides LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com – As part of a...
View ArticleRetired Army Colonel Who Ran Investment Fraud Scheme Costing Victims $3...
SANTA ANA, California – A retired colonel in the California Army National Guard who admitted running an investment scheme that caused two dozen victims to suffer a losses of nearly $3 million was...
View ArticlePresident Obama’s Message From Oklahoma
Good morning – On Sunday, I was in Moore, Oklahoma. Today, I’m headed to the Jersey Shore. Those two communities are separated by half a continent but united by a common sense of purpose. Like Joplin,...
View ArticleUS Attorney Alleges $6 Billion Money Laundering Scheme Run By Major Digital...
Liberty Reserve Allegedly Processed at Least 55 Million Illegal Transactions for at Least One Million Users Worldwide Facilitating Global Criminal Conduct Investigation and Takedown Believed to Be the...
View ArticleEmployment Law Specialist Sets Up Business in Clerkenwell
Simeon Spencer, founding partner of Spencer Lufia LLP joins forces with Helen Wyatt, former Employment Partner at Goodman Derrick to form Spencer Wyatt LLP http://www.spencer-wyatt.com, a boutique...
View ArticleGoogle Faces European Regulation Scrutiny
The mood in European regulators has changed against Google, with the EU Competition Commission Joaquin Almunia saying that it was almost certain that Google would need to revise its proposals so far as...
View ArticleFormer KPMG Partner Scott London To Be Arraigned On June 17
Scott London, the former KPMG partner who has agreed to plead guilty to insider trading charges, is now scheduled to be arraigned in United States District Court on Monday, June 17 at 1:00 p.m. See...
View ArticleAmLaw 200 Sees Law Firms Gambling on Growth
The AmLaw 100 has always been a focus of high interest in the law profession, but it is the second 100 that is causing some high interest right now – because it appears they are hiring like fury and...
View ArticleReed Smith Expands Private Equity Practice with New York Partner Added
(May 30, 2013, New York) – Reed Smith LLP, a leading international law firm, today announced the addition of James A. Mercadante as a partner in its firmwide Corporate & Securities Group in the...
View ArticleFulbright & Jaworski and Norton Rose Plan On Becoming as Big as Texas on...
As big as Texas it has been and now Fulbright & Jaworski is destined for global presence on a Texas-sized scale with itsmerger with London-based Norton Rose. The new firm, to go under the moniker...
View ArticleApple Lawsuit and the Apple Lawyer Link
A lawsuit scandal involving Apple patents, a design professor and a lawyer who is one of Apple’s go-to law firm attorneys has rocked legal circles. The lawsuit, brought by a company called FlatWorld...
View ArticleKaufman Dolowich & Vouluck Expand LA Law Office
(June 3, 2013, Los Angeles, CA) — Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, LLP (KDV), a leading national law firm, today announced that Dean B. Herman, who has more than 30 years of experience in insurance...
View ArticleAttorney General Bondi and Hillsborough County Sheriff Gee’s Office Announce...
TAMPA, Fla.— LawFuel.com – Attorney General Pam Bondi, along with Colonel Donna Lusczynski of Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee’s Office and Captain Jerry Stwan of the Plant City Police Department,...
View ArticleTwo Promoters of Tax Fraud Scheme Who Sought Millions in Fraudulent Tax Refunds
SANTA ANA– Arturo Villarreal-Alba, of Whittier, was sentenced today to 96 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release following imprisonment for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and mail...
View ArticleHow Clarence Brown and Law Professor Kevin Brown Developed Opposite Views on...
LawFuel.com – How did Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and law professor Kevin Brown - both black graduates from the same prestigious law school during the time of affirmative action – come to...
View ArticleLaw Firm Marketing – Coles Miller Partners with Digital Agency to Provide...
LawFuel.com – Coles Miller LLP, one of Dorset’s leading law firms, has partnered with digital agency Intergage to provide the firm with an online marketing strategy that would deliver a real return on...
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