Skadden Arps – Encouraged by the success of proxy access proposals in the 2015 proxy season, shareholder proponents have submitted almost 200 proxy access shareholder proposals for 2016 annual meetings. As of mid-June, approximately 65 percent of companies receiving a proxy access shareholder proposal have adopted or proposed a 3 percent proxy access bylaw or
DENVER – Christopher George White, age 37, of McCormick, South Carolina, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to six counts of coercion and enticement of a minor, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge David Thompson
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MIAMI, FL, September 1, 2016—TrustCounsel, an estate and trust law firm, opens a new office in Miami. The space in downtown’s Miami Center supports the firm’s growing trust and estate clientele in Florida. The Miami office continues to service trustees and executors in trust administration, probate, and related tax matters. An affiliated company,
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The bigger the law firm, the younger the age – so reports a research report from Edward Drummond, a law firm consultancy. The report showed that 72 per cent of partners at the UK’s top 10 law firms are 50 years or younger, while this the figure for the UK overall is 60 per cent.
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Clifford Chance – Following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, multinationals face a range of challenges. At two recent Clifford Chance seminars in London, our experts shared their views on what Brexit means for multinationals outside the financial services sector, focusing on the business and legal impact. There is still considerable uncertainty as
LOS ANGELES – The former operator of the Normandie Club in Gardena has been ordered to pay a $1 million criminal fine and to forfeit nearly $1.4 million after pleading guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to report large cash transactions to federal authorities. During a federal court hearing yesterday, United
Australian law firm Slater and Gordon was the first law firm to be listed on the stock exchange, but it is also the first to post a very public $1 billion loss. The personal injury and class action law firm, which extended to the UK under an aggressive growth plan, has suffered significant reversals in
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Yes, it’s that time again – another Kim Dotcom hearing and plenty of social media carry-on to meet the American attempts to carry the big man off. The latest brouhaha involves a late bid by the Megaupload founder, to have his extradition case live streamed online, which may yet occur. The current case, set down
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“Making a Murderer” just got more intense with a new plot line. Attorney Kathleen Zellner, who represents the documentary’s subject, Steven Avery, says tests have already been conducted that “conclusively establish his innocence” in yet another twist in the “Making a Murder” mystery. But not just yet . . this is tense drama, after all
The death of millionaire lawyer John Jones in April, who represented Wikileaks’ Julian Assange among others, is an apparent suicide that has friends, colleagues and clients asking “Why?” With no evident reason to do so, and little reported in the media, the question of why he might have done so is increasing in intensity. John
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