Northern California, 4 March 2019 – Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that Paul P. Chen has joined the firm in Northern California as a partner in the Corporate & Securities practice. Mr. Chen was most recently at DLA Piper in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, where he was the head of US
(Washington, D.C. / March 4, 2019) Former U.S. Senator Thomas A. Daschle of The Daschle Group, a Public Policy Advisory of Baker Donelson, has been recognized with the Rosalie Wynn Hearst Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest distinction offered by the United States Senate Youth Alumni Association. The Rosalie Wynn Hearst Distinguished Public Service Award
Legal publishers LexisNexis have released a major, online resource providing free information about New Zealand law in a move designed to provide the New Zealand public with more information about New Zealand law. Access to justice issues have become increasingly important and the aim of the new LexisNexis portal is to provide an extensive resource
Lord Goldsmith QC, Chair of Asian and European Litigation at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, has delivered the keynote speech at the opening of the inaugural Tel Aviv Arbitration Day, where he asked if investment arbitration is at a crossroads in its development. Some 3,000 Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) have been made since the first one
Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is suing three Canada Border Services Agency officers and others in a civil lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed last week claims no one told her she was being arrested until after she had endured three hours of interrogation and searches by border agents, according to a civil suit filed Friday against
The majority of serious crime victims lack faith in the justice system and feel justice was not served in their case, according to new research released by Victim Support. Victim Support released preliminary findings from the study at the two-day Hāpaitia te Oranga Tangata Safe and Effective Justice: Strengthening the Criminal Justice System for
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Charles Needham* The Practice of law is increasingly doing away with the notion that ‘lawyers’ in the conventional sense are the ones to provide the advice businesses and people require. The need for lawyers is diminishing, with the onset of technology and ‘new-model legal providers’, who are now handling business and personal issues in a
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FOLEY ADDS FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL CAPUANO IN BOSTON BOSTON, MASS. – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that former U.S. Congressman Michael Capuano has joined the firm’s Government Solutions Practice as a public affairs director, splitting his time between the firm’s Boston and Washington D.C. offices. He joins Foley’s team of former Congressmen, which includes public affairs directors Dennis Cardoza and Scott Klug,
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Diminutive music lawyer Farrah Usmani is stepping into a new world. The 5 foot, 3 inch , 135 lb Loeb & Loeb music lawyer, Farrah “H-Town Hustler” Usmani, will enter the ring tonight to take on Jenny Sciullo to raise money for the Nashville-area charity, The Charley Foundation. As the headline fight, the women have already raised
Lime scooters have been in the news with wheel-locks and gridlocks with Councils, but one law firm has trialled them successfully . . in their own offices. Dunedin’s Jenny Beck Law have been scooting the corridors of law after discarding the idea of taking Limes to the Emerson’s brewery on eight Limes. Instead they took
