Partner Promotions Occurred Across 10 Offices Chicago — Sidley Austin LLP announced today that it has elected 32 lawyers to its partnership, effective January 1, 2015. This new partner class is made up of lawyers that represent a cross section of Sidley’s broad array of practice areas. The newly promoted lawyers are in offices across […]
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We received an item for a New York attorney concerned at the Victoria Secrets’ fashion show and providing reasons why it should be – tongue kind-of in cheek – regarded as illegal or at least disregarded by normal people who don’t have girlfriends or wives who wear skimpy lingerie and wings. This is not meant
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LOS ANGELES – A task force investigation into the street gang that has terrorized the Ramona Gardens housing complex in Boyle Heights for decades has resulted in a federal racketeering indictment and the arrest this morning of 25 members and associates of the criminal enterprise. During a law enforcement operation this morning,
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McClatchey DC – The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on harsh treatment of detainees prompted renewed calls for legal action against CIA officers, but the Obama administration on Tuesday questioned the need for criminal prosecution. No prosecutions would be warranted if the intelligence officers were carrying out U.S. government policy and following legal guidance, said senior
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Arguments that his intellectual disability should see Robert Wayne Holsey reprieved from the death penalty failed before the US Supreme Court and Holsey was killed by lethal injection Tuesday night. Lower courts had already rejected Holsey’s lawyers’ arguments that an intellectual disability and the fact that his trial lawyer was an alcoholic meant he should
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LONDON–TechNavio has announced the publication of a new market research report on the Osteoporosis Drugs Market in APAC Region, which is expected to grow at a CAGR of 4.73 percent from 2015-2019. “In the US, May is celebrated as National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention month. Such initiatives are increasing the awareness of bone health among
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Gibson Dunn is a Big Law firm who have represented Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer who also faced a massive gender discrimination claim. However their Supreme Court claim fighting 1.5 million female employees in a case that could have cost the company tens of billions of dollars. Their lawyer, Ted Boutrous (pictured) won the case
Professional negligence claims in the UK are on the rise – in a big way according to reports. Legal Business reports that High Court cases against firms have tripled since last year, showing an increase of 192 per cent. City litigators say the sharp increase is primarily a result of the time limit looming for
See the Diabetes Destroyed Video – Click Here Pharmaceutical giants Merck have agreed to pay $8.4 billion for Cubist Pharmaceuticals in a major deal that sees the giant drug company move more deeply into the antibiotic area, including its focus upon diseases like diabetes. The move has been a response to more interest in some
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LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DANIEL BONVENTRE, the former Director of Operations for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today to 10 years in prison for his role in Madoff’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the largest in
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