It may be the last of the Nazi trials. A spritely 94 year old has gone on trial in Germany to face 170,000 counts of accessory to murder following his World War Two work as a guard at Auschwitz death camp. Reinhold Hanning faces the trial in Detmold and walked to court in a manner
London, 11 February 2016 — Mayer Brown has strengthened its private equity offering with the hire of Perry Yam as partner and Head of Private Equity in London. Perry’s appointment is part of an ongoing, global initiative to expand the firm’s private equity offering. Perry, who was Head of Private Equity for Europe & the
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Defendants Exploited Over 4.5 Million Financially Struggling Americans Through Unlawful Scheme to Evade State Usury Laws Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Karl Stiften, Special Agent-in-Charge of the St. Louis Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), and Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New
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Spilman Thomas & Battle PLC* – In what is potentially the largest “patent troll” verdict in history, Apple has lost a $625 million patent jury award to VirnetX, according to Reuters news service. The jury verdict in the Eastern District of Texas includes $334.9 million for infringement occurring prior to filing and an additional $290.7
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What do most former judges do? Lawn bowls? Bridge parties? Perhaps Thai cooking classes? Well for Angela Stokes, the former Cleveland Municipal Court judge, you go work at Chick-fil-A. Chick-what, you say? Chick-fil-A is where former Judge Stokes now works who was recently retired in order to resolve a legal complaint against her, which involved
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Personal injury attorney Terry Crouppen, half of the Missouri firm Brown and Crouppen has used a Super Bowl ad to slam Rams owner, billionaire Stan Kroenke. The 30 second ad is to air during Super Bowl 50 and the attorney provides some advice to “Silent Stan” Kroenke and defends the loyal Rams fans, telling Kroenke that they
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Pam Bondi today announced a $470 million joint state-federal settlement with HSBC to address mortgage origination, servicing and foreclosure abuses. The settlement with the mortgage lender and servicer provides direct payments to Florida borrowers for past foreclosure abuses and requires the company to provide loan modifications and other consumer relief. In addition
Beijing Enterprises Holdings Limited (“BEHL”) has signed an agreement to acquire from EQT Infrastructure II (“EQT”) and its affiliates collectively 100% shareholding in EEW Energy from Waste (“EEW”), the market-leading energy-from-waste company in Germany, for approximately €1,438 million. The agreement is conditional upon obtaining an approval under German Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance. The transaction
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Details About the Circle of Legal Trust program of speakers for the forthcoming meeting in Las Vegas, April 7-9 This will be a HIRL, which means, assuming Google Hangouts on Air is functioning properly, the live seminar will be simulcast live,worldwide on Google Plus. It is all here starting on Thursday, April 7 at 2:00
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Hiking tours are a great way to relax for stressed lawyers and LawFuel Travel has just unravelled 7 of the best … anywhere. If ever there was something the stressed lawyer needed it is a break – correct? And one of the best ways to take a break if you’re not into lying on silicon sand
