As the case against Sulaiman Abu Ghaith goes to the jury, you might wonder how a Jewish lawyer like Stanley Cohencame to be representing a man charged with participating in a terrorist conspiracy to kill as many Americans as possible and how he could have made a career out of representing Muslim terror suspects generally. […]
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The US Supreme Court faces a major issue in a religious rights case, which could see a ruling that companies can exercise religious freedom to exempt them from complying with federal law – a decision that would have far-ranging impact. The Hobby Lobby case involves a key decision as to whether the company, Hobby Lobby,
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A&O picks up every single legal advisor award across the energy, resources and infrastructure sectors during the 2013 awards season The awards season for energy, resources and infrastructure is now complete following the Infrastructure Journal (IJ) Awards. It has been another standout year that saw A&O complete a clean sweep of all overall legal advisor
LawFuel.com – Law Firm News – The U.K. Court of Appeal’s decision in Durant v Financial Services Authority [2003] (‘‘Durant’’) has commonly been seen to have restricted the definition of ‘‘personal data’’ to the benefit of data controllers, leading to criticism from EU data protection authorities (and some commentators) that, as a result, U.K. law does
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Law Firm Slaughter and May today announces that the following will become partners on 01 May 2014: Partner (principal practice area) Jonathan Clark (Dispute Resolution) Jordan Ellison (Competition) Anna Lyle-Smythe (Competition) Susannah Macknay (Corporate) Azadeh Nassiri (Financing) Dominic Robertson (Tax) Tom Vickers (Restructuring)
Former Madoff Investment employees were found guilty of assisting Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff build his house of cards after a five month trial in Manhattan. The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara released the following statement regarding the guilty verdicts in respect of the five, former employees, including Daniel Bonventre
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Pam Bondi today, as part of a delegation of five state attorneys general, met with Mexican attorneys general and federal officials in Mexico City, Mexico to strengthen working relationships between government officials in both countries and bolster efforts to combat transnational crime. The delegation today discussed human trafficking, as well as drug
CHICAGO, Illinois – March 24, 2014 – The law firm of Arnstein & Lehr LLP is excited to announce today that Erin M. Murphy has joined the firm’s Litigation Practice Group as special counsel in the Chicago office. Prior to joining Arnstein & Lehr, Erin was principal at the Law
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LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the arrest of TERRENCE PENDERGRASS, a correction officer and former captain, for deliberately ignoring the urgent medical needs of a
There were no survivors on Malaysian Flight MH370, which plummeted into the Indian Ocean, the Malaysian Prime Minister has announced. And now, for the passengers’ families and for the Airline there will be legal issues as to the Airline’s liability. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razar indicated that Flight MH370 ended its flight in a
