Will class action lawsuit specialists Slater + Gordon face their own lawsuit, shortly? In an ironic twist of fate if ever there was one, the world’s first publicly listed law firm is potentially facing a class action lawsuit following the financial hits the share price for the firm has taken in recent times. Slater + […]
Internet mogul Kim Dotcom’s fate as to whether he will be extradited from his adopted home in New Zealand to the US will be decided today. The decision is due this afternoon by a District Court judge in Auckland who has been hearing the case for two months and after years of raids, wrangling and
International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced that it partnered with the Alaska Innocence Project and the Alaska Office of Public Advocacy in reaching a settlement with the State of Alaska on December 17 that resulted in the “immediate and unconditional release” from incarceration of the Fairbanks Four – George Frese, Kevin Pease, Marvin
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LOS ANGELES – A former administrator of a Los Angeles law firm was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for embezzling more than $3.3 million from her employer. Esterlina Santos, 53, who resides in the Ladera Heights district of Los Angeles, was also ordered by United States District Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell
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Sparring judges and lawyers are nothing uncommon in court, but actually having the couple actually fight outside after the Judge himself asked the lawyer to “step outside” is taking matters to an extreme, you may think. So too did the Florida Supreme Court has overturned a penalthy imposed by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission and
Dentons – Global law firm Dentons, Colombia’s Cárdenas & Cárdenas, and Mexico’s López Velarde, Heftye y Soria (LVHS), today announced that the partners of each firm have approved the combination of the three firms, bringing the world’s largest law firm to two of Latin America’s top four economies. By combining, Cárdenas & Cárdenas,
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Foley & Lardner – Telemedicine is a key component in the health care industry shift to value-based care as a way to generate additional revenue, cut costs and enhance patient satisfaction. One of the biggest changes to health care in the last decade, telemedicine is experiencing rapid growth and deployment across a variety of applications.
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LOS ANGELES – A former special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) pleaded guilty this afternoon to accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from a man who had been accused of trafficking a woman into the United States to be a sex slave. Joohoon David Lee, 43,
Clifford Chance – Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised China Energy Engineering Corporation Limited (CEEC) on its US$1.8 billion IPO. CEEC is one of the largest comprehensive solutions providers for the power industry in China and globally. The team was led by partner Tim Wang and US securities partner Fang Liu. They were
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The Bill Cosby defamation/sex assault legal mess just got messier. And now the lawyers are being deposed and allegedly “harassed” in the ongoing litigation. Lawyers for the comedian, who has filed defamation lawsuits against seven of his accusers, are to resist attempts by the accusers’ lawyers to have his wife provide a sworn deposition in
