Thrillers thrive on villains and heroes, and usually these characters are not overly complicated; writers don’t want to confuse or slow the plot. In John Grisham’s page turners the villains are corporate titans and their lawyers, and the plucky, idealistic heroes (played in the movie versions by Tom Cruise in “The Firm” and Julia Roberts
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Ron Paul supporters may have succeeded in pushing their agenda at the state GOP convention, the Star-Telegram reports. Supporters of Paul, a congressman from Surfside who got 4.5 percent of the votes in the presidential primary, tried to overwhelm the senate district-level conventions by sheer numbers. The party regulars, aware that Paul’s supporters won a
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U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers Inc. appears to have been a victim of a fraud in which swindlers used forged documents from one of Japan’s biggest trading companies to bilk it out of as much as $250 million. Late last year, a unit of the New York-based investment bank issued loans to a fund run
If Daniel Hurstel’s schedule on Thursday, March 27, was anything to go by, the Paris legal market is in decent health. The head of Willkie Farr & Gallagher’s office there, Hurstel was frantically attempting to juggle two deals while explaining parts of the U.S. firm’s strategy in London to a visitor. The Paris mood is
Local Attorney Named to Largest Southern California Defense Organization LOS ANGELES–LAWFUEL – Legal Announcements–Randall J. Dean, a partner at Los Angeles-based law firm Chapman, Glucksman, Dean, Roeb & Barger, is announced as the incoming president of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel (ASCDC), the nation’s largest state civil defense organization. Dean’s one-year term officially
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HOUSTON – LAWFUEL – Legal Announcements – Ricardo Garcia-Moreno, an experienced corporate practitioner, has joined the Houston office of Haynes and Boone, LLP as a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Securities Practice Group. “Ricardo possesses substantial legal skills and a breadth of corporate practice experience,” said Ken Broughton, the Houston administrative partner. “Haynes and
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NEW YORK March 25, 2008 – Lawfuel – Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP represented Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. as part of an investment group which also includes Goldman Sachs in a comprehensive recapitalization of MoneyGram International, Inc. (NYSE: MGI), it was announced today. The transaction, comprised of several different types of financing, including preferred
HARTFORD, Conn., March 28, 2008 LAWFUEL — The law firm of Schatz Nobel Izard P.C., which has significant experience representing investors in prosecuting claims of securities fraud, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas on behalf of all persons
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LawFuel – Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SAMUEL A. FISHMAN, a former partner at a major United States law firm (the “Firm”), pleaded guilty earlier today before United States District Judge VICTOR MARRERO to a mail fraud charge arising out of
A federal judge has handed the White House a legal victory in battle with the Democratic National Committee over e-mails related to U.S. attorney firings. District Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on Thursday that the DNC does not have a right under the Freedom of Information
