LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury has indicted two men in a scheme to obtain lawful permanent resident status for South Korean nationals by submitting fraudulent visa applications that falsely claimed American businesses wanted to hire skilled foreign workers. The indictment alleges that the defendants exploited the EB-2(a) visa program by submitting bogus Alien
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Former Wellington solicitor David McLean made a profitable move to his current employer, Westpac Bank, and has now also seen his remuneration rise to $2.455 million. The increase for Power List member McLean has seen an increase of over $14,500 according to the Bank’s recently released financial reports and despite his parent bank’s chief executive
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Ministry of Justice stats show that most civil cases involve self-represented litigants . Over 13,000 civil claims involves cases where no lawyers are involved, causing concern for the Justice Minister who told The Herald, who obtained the information from the Ministry, that it could lead to New Zealanders “becoming prey to society’s powerful interests.” Court
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Powered by LawFuel -Employment law firm SBM Legal is taking the next big step in its development as New Zealand’s leading employment law specialists. After more than a decade, co-founding partner Don Mackinnon is stepping away from day-to-day involvement in the firm, to practice as a Barrister. The move reflects Don’s changing priorities, including a
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49. Jim Farmer QC Last Year – 49 Jim Farmer may have eased right off on the work flow, but he remains a influential and respected legal figure, having handled some of the country’s largest corporate and civil litigation cases, with an emphasis on competition law, over his lengthy career at the bar. His academic
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s firing of a four partner team that planned to move to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a further example of the increasing aggression for legal talent shown in the competitive corporate legal market in the US. It has also provoked some criticism for the impact it will have on Clearys – and potentially
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October 28, 2019 Powered by LawFuel – LONDON, OCTOBER 28, 2019: International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP today announced that Jenny Doak will join the Firm as a Tax partner in the London office. Jenny is currently a Tax partner at Vinson & Elkins. She has a versatile practice covering restructurings (including formal
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Clifford Chance has started an interesting robotics training programme, together with ‘Josef’, a legal automation platform, to train lawyers on how to work with a ‘no code’ platform to develop contracts. LawFuel wrote about Melbourne-based legal ‘bot’ Josef and receiving investment funding earlier this year. The firm’s press release explaining the initiative is below –
Powered by LawFuel – MORRISTOWN, N.J. – November 1, 2019 – Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce that Kevin Walker has joined the firm’s Morristown office as shareholder. Walker joins the firm from McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter in Morristown, where he was a
Powered by LawFuel – November 1, 2019 – Campos Mello Advogados, which has a cooperation agreement with DLA Piper, advised Banco Votorantim in the issuance of US$850 million of senior unsecured bonds in the international market. The transaction was divided into two tranches. The financial institution will pay US$400 million in coupons at a rate of 4 percent
