TOKYO – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Philippe Riesen has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Department and Chemical, Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practice as a partner in the Tokyo office. Riesen has been assisting Japanese companies with U.S. patent litigation and counseling for more than 25 years. He is experienced in a wide […]
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New York, 4 April 2016 – Mayer Brown announced today that Douglas Donahue has joined the firm’s global Banking & Finance practice and Derivatives & Structured Products group as a partner in New York. Previously, he was a lawyer with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP in New York. “Doug is well-known in the industry
Los Angeles – March 31, 2016 — Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Janis Hui Ozaki as senior counsel in the firm’s Los Angeles office. She joins Dykema’s Litigation Department. Ozaki has extensive experience handling business and real estate disputes, including those relating to leasing, purchase and sale agreements,
Jhon Jairo Cruz Trejos, a/k/a “Mellizo,” Attempted to Broker Cocaine-Financed Weapons Deals Involving Highly Enriched Uranium, Missiles, and Machine Guns Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JHON JAIRO CRUZ TREJOS, a/k/a “Mellizo,” a citizen of Colombia, was sentenced today to 13 years in prison
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By Colin Ritchie* How would you like to dramatically lift your legal practice profits next year by lifting revenue? What if you could ensure that the additional revenue was from fantastic new clients that you really enjoy working with? Sounds too good to be true, but you can do it with referrals. Let me
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The Panamanian law firm at the center of the current scandal over high level tax evasion and asset-hiding, relies on an extensive network to do its dirty work – and they include lawyers, bankers and accountants to support its high net-worth clients. Mossack Fonseca is based in Panama and has made millions from its high net
For a firm dealing with the super-rich, super-elite, super-secret, Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca has just become a euphemism for all of those things. And for many of the wrong reasons. The firm is very well known in a lot of people in those groups, but now thanks to a leak of massive volumes of documents
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So women lawyers in Saudi Arabia are finding it tough going in the Kingdom of Radical Islam? What else could surprise us more in this relentlessly mysongist and misanthropic disaster-zone country than women finding it tough? After all, this is the home of the original Wahhabi radical Islam, something the Huffington Post recently described as
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Dating a man or woman who has been single for a lengthy period presents unique challenges in the dating world – but the need to understand the reasons why the problems exist can also help solve them – and establish a long term relationship that is unique satisfying. we spoke with long term relationship expert
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Shipman & Goodwin – On March 31, 2016, came word that members of the U.S. National Women’s Soccer Team are filing a discrimination complaint against the U.S. Soccer Federation on the grounds that they are paid less than their male counterparts. According to press reports, “the filing, citing figures from the USSF’s 2015 financial report,
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