Law firm rankings? Where would we be without them. The first quarter of the 2014 Am Law rankings, released this week, and for M&A advisors has Skadden Arps and Simpson Tacher in the top three. The charts were released by various media entities and trends were based on the value of coprorate clients’ transactions internationally […]
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEPHEN COLANGELO, Jr., was sentenced yesterday to 87 months in prison in connection with two separate schemes that defrauded investors out of more than $3.5 million. COLANGELO’s first scheme involved a hedge fund he controlled called the Brickell Fund, LLC
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Former Pillsbury Winthrop senior partner and chair Mary Cranson spoke to LawFuel about gender diversity issues in law firms, noting the top three things she recommends that law firms – and others – need to do in order to achieve gender diversity. Ms Cranston’s successful reign at Pillsburys saw the firm expand from its California
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Winnie M Li wrote this article about her experience being raped while at Harvard and how her case was handled. Her article appears in the Huffington Post. When I woke up this morning a friend had mailed me this anonymous article by a current under-graduate about Harvard’s mishandling of her sexual assault case. “This made
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROGER KEY, a/k/a “Luchie,” a violent and large-scale drug trafficker who operated in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York, was found guilty yesterday in Manhattan federal court of two murder-for-hire conspiracies, attempted murder, and narcotics and firearms offenses. KEY was
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Mansur Gidfarwrites in the Huffington Post about the McCutcheon Supreme Court decision. A former Upworthy deputy editor and contributor, he is the Communications Director of Represent.Us, a non-partisan national campaign to combat the undue influence of special interests in American government. The Supreme Court just decided an incredibly important case called McCutcheon v. Federal Election
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LawFuel.com – Frankfurt, Germany, 28 March 2014 – During his state visit in Berlin, Chinese president Xi Jinping signed a letter of intent to set up a renminbi clearing house in Frankfurt am Main with the Federal Bank and the People’s Bank of China. Global law firm Baker & McKenzie has dealt with the topic
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LawFuel.com – Skadden Arps – On April 2, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, striking down the aggregate limits imposed on individual contributions under federal law. The 5-4 opinion held that the individual aggregate limits under federal law are invalid under the First Amendment because they do not serve
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Cherie Blair, the wife of former British PM Tony, has been doing alright since her husband left Number 10 Downing Street. Like husband Tony, who has operated lucrative business broking deals and various charitable and peace-keeping missions (the results of which are perhaps less notable), Cherie Blair operates her ultra-private law and strategy firm from
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LawFuel.com – Skadden Arps – Market participants that enter into uncleared swaps should expect to receive notifications from swap dealer (SD) and major swap participant (MSP) counterparties regarding segregation of initial margin for swaps. Dodd-Frank amended Commodity Exchange Act Section 4s(l) to provide SD and MSP counterparties with the right to have any initial margin
