In partnership litigation, a partnership lawyer who specializes in the intricacies of partnership law is a must for partners who are at each other throats. Partnership litigation, including corporate shareholder lawsuits, limited liability member lawsuits and even family co-owner lawsuits, has both a complex legal component and a highly charged emotional component. Retaining a lawyer
British QC Gary Bell is a top criminal lawyer, who has also released his book “Animal QC”. This extract from The Spectator looks at drug dealers – cocaine dealers specifically – and at how the drug business is not necessarily quite as glamorous as you might imagine. As a defence silk, I come across some
Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ROBERT LEES, a former senior executive of Universal Forest Products, Inc. (“UFP”) was convicted a jury of conspiracy, mail fraud, money laundering and making false statements in a loan application following a seven-day trial in White Plains before United
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Telling stories is something that most lawyers are good at and lawyer David Smyth of Brooks Pierce explained to JD Supra that blogging lawyers should use humor, video – even cartoons – to get their messages across. At it’s heart, good communication in blogging is about good story-telling he says. David Smyth’s blog Cady Bar the
Slaughter and May advised Ambatana B.V. Holdings in relation to the letgo merger of U.S. operations with Wallapop S.L. Under the terms of the agreement, Wallapop’s U.S. operations will be absorbed into letgo, creating a strong player in the U.S. mobile classifieds market. The combined entity will be majority owned and managed by letgo, and
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Detroit – May 17, 2016 — Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Susan K. Andersen to its Automotive and Products Liability Practice Group as senior counsel in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Prior to joining Dykema, Andersen spent more than a decade as a trial attorney with Marshall &
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Former Manhattan corporate lawyer Charles Bennett has received a 5 year prison term for a ponzi scheme he set up that fleeced investors of over $5 million. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHARLES A. BENNETT was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to five
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Law firm branding is big business, but it can also be fraught with difficulty and potential disaster. There are various issues that can arise if law firm branding is not handled properly. So a kind of case study of how to do it properly was displayed by Ross Fishman of Fishman Marketing who launched five litigation
Taking Into Account Taxpayer Funded Pension, Dean Skelos Also Ordered to Pay a $500,000 Fine – Both Defendants Ordered to Forfeit $334,120 of Crime Proceeds Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today
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Getting paid at the rate of $2000 an hour may seem a pipe dream of interplanetary proportions, but some clients are willing to pay it and several are happy to do so. A new report from BTI Consulting shows that there has been a significant increase in the rate corporate clients are prepared to pay
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