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Litigation Funder’s $31 Million Trip-and-Fall Fraud Scheme Arrested

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Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the unsealing of a Superseding Indictment charging ADRIAN ALEXANDER with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to obtain fraudulent insurance reimbursements and other compensation for fraudulent trip-and-fall accidents.  ALEXANDER was

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Text Messaging Mobile Phone Scam Netted $50 Million – And Nine Year Prison Term For Australian

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Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL PEARSE, an Australian national who was extradited to the United States from Australia in January 2021, was sentenced today to 109 months in prison for his participation in a fraudulent scheme to charge hundreds of thousands of mobile phone customers millions

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Lawyer Conned Clients About Phony Court Successes With Sham Documents and Forged Judge Signatures

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          LOS ANGELES – A former California lawyer has agreed to plead guilty to a fraud charge, admitting he lied to clients about winning cases and deceiving them with bogus documents, some with the forged signatures of judges.          Matthew Charles Elstein, 51, of Redondo Beach, agreed to plead guilty to one count of wire fraud in a

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NZ Bar Association – The Dark Art of Cross Examination

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NZ Bar Association Webinar Starts 5:00pm Wednesday, 27 October 2021 Ends 6:30pm Wednesday, 27 October 2021 Type CPD Training Location At your desk From your location Everywhere, unknown 1010 New Zealand See map: Google Maps Presented by Hon. Nick Davidson QC and David Jones QC, chaired by Phil Shamy, this 1.5 hour webinar covers important aspects cross-examination including ethics, witness reliability and

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UK Law – New Managing Partner at Fieldfisher

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Robert Shooter, Fieldfisher’s head of Technology, Outsourcing & Privacy (‘TOP’) practice will succeed Michael Chissick as Managing Partner, effective 1 May 2022.Head of the firm’s TOP practice since 2012 and leader of the technology sector team, Rob joined Fieldfisher in 2002 and was made partner in 2006.He has been a member of the Executive Committee

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Kiwi Lawyer and “Inspiring Leader” Scores Top UK Legal Role

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Former New Zealand Ministry of Justice lawyer Kelby Harmes has been appointed to a top UK legal role as Deputy Head of the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) beating out what was described in his appointment as “a strong field of candidates”. He had formerly served as interim Directory and Deputy Head of the Office, which

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Wotton + Kearney Announces New Appointments in Australia and New Zealand

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Wotton + Kearney (W+K), a specialised insurance law firm, has continued its appointment spree this year, welcoming four senior lawyers to its property, construction, and energy team. In June 2021, W+K announced 23 senior promotions in Australia and New Zealand, the largest group of senior lawyers ever promoted at one time in the firm’s history.

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Leading IP Lawyer Writes Book To ‘Connect The Dots’ On Pressing Issues of our Time

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Leading New Zealand IP lawyer Clive Elliott has been concerned like many people on what is happening with the state of the world – and its human inhabitants.Grasping the issue he posted a LinkedIn message about a book he has written to deal with the issues of  inequality, polarization, extremism, global warming, and the disruption

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Kiwi Design Studio Comes Up With Friendly, Store Window Covid Sticker To Help Boost Businesses

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 “A brilliant concept to help recover from the lockdown and well worth doing,” says one cafe ownerAs smaller businesses in Auckland and elsewhere struggle to emerge from the COVID lockdowns, an innovative design studio has come up with an easy-to-use tool to help get customers in their doors.An attractive ‘We’re Vaccinated’ sticker placed on the

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