Who can question Barbara Walters’ pick for the most fascinating person of 2014 – even when she’s picked a lawyer who married a heartthrob actor. In this case, of course, it’s Amal Clooney, or the former Amal Alamuddin. So how did the lawyer make the list? Already an accomplished international human rights attorney, the new […]
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Fishman Marketing – It’s a nice simple e-card that gently supports the firm’s brand. A number of years ago we worked with the wonderful Maggie Watkins, then CMO of 200-lawyer Best Best & Krieger to develop a new brand and website. We’d joked that she was literally working at the Best firm. Twice. In fact, in a
Getting bonus checks is always fun, we imagine, but what is a law firm doing having a billionaire music mogul handing out bonuses? what’s that all about? Dr Dre, aka Andre Young, personally distributed bonuses to 43 members of his law firm, King, Holmes Patgeron & Berliner, which included everyone from partners to paralegals. King
Morrison Foerster – On November 18, 2014, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) filed a proposed rule change with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to adopt NASD Rule 2711 as new FINRA Rule 2241 with significant modifications.1 The proposed changes reflect a more flexible principles-based approach and incorporate many of the FINRA
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>> Osteoporosis Protocol Review – Beating Osteoporosis Eli Lilly has stepped in to ink a worldwide license on Zosano Pharma’s recipe for parathyroid hormone 1-34 dubbed ZP-PTH, which is delivered via its microneedle patch system to treat osteoporosis. The drug has wrapped Phase II and is now on the threshold of a late-stage program. Fremont,
WASHINGTON – A former university professor was sentenced today to five years in prison for traveling in foreign commerce to engage in sexual conduct with a minor, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. Walter Lee Williams, 66, of Palm Springs, California, was charged with engaging in
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Detroit – December 15, 2014 – Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that Bonnie Mayfield, Bloomfield Hills-based member of Dykema’s Litigation and Labor & Employment practices, has been appointed to be Chair of the Legislative Committee of the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL). The NAWL is a leading national
LONDON, 15 December 2014—LawFuel.com – Ropes & Gray is advising Bain Capital Europe, LLP on the acquisition of CRH plc’s clay and concrete businesses in the UK and United States in a transaction valuing the businesses at £414 million. CRH, a FTSE 100 building products company, is selling clay companies lbstock and Glen Gery
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Stephen Fairley at the Rainmaker Institute is highly experienced when it comes to law firm marketing issues, specializing in lead conversion for law firms. He recently published an article on the “3 c0mmon denominators” for lawyers who succeed in building their law firms, published in the National Law Review. As he points out after working
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The Sydney hostage crisis has seen lawyers and courts evacuated in the King Street Courts in Sydney’s CBD, along with staff in the New South Wales Crown Solicitors’ office. The siege and hostage-holding by at least one and probably at least two gunmen has seen the CBD area around the cafe occupied by the gunmen
