The question of whether animals have legal rights is something that lawyer Steve Wise has been seeking to clarify for his entire legal career. With experiments, organ removal and “imprisonment”, he believes they deserve a status of ‘personhood’ that should see them with rights that deny some of the transgressions he believes are imposed upon
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LawFuel.com – Best Law News – Salix Admits to Paying Doctors to Serve as “Speakers” at Programs that Were Primarily Social in Nature and Where the “Speakers” Spent Little or No Time Discussing the Relevant Salix Product Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Scott J. Lampert,
Murray Huberfeld, Founder of Manhattan-based Hedge Fund, Also Charged For Paying Off Seabrook to Invest in the Fund Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that NORMAN
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LOS ANGELES – A Long Beach-based lobbyist, whose clients included illegal marijuana stores in Long Beach, has been charged with filing a false tax return and failing to report more than three-quarters of a million dollars in income over a six-year period. Carl A. Kemp, 43, of Long Beach, the owner of the
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Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC – The shale boom has given rise to another, less welcome boom: the bankruptcy boom. Thirty-five exploration and production (“E&P”) companies sought bankruptcy protection between July 1, 2014, and December 31, 2015, and this appears to be only the tip of the iceberg. According to Deloitte, 35 percent of the
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Has Big Law’s big dog firm Cravath Swaine & Moore set off a burst of wage hikes in the wake of its 12.5 per cent increase – the first in almost 10 years? Maybe. Since the GFC law firm economics have changed as clients resisted fee levels and the justification for higher fees became more difficult.
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Statue of Hindu God Ganesha Was Stolen From a Temple in Tamil Nadu in 2006 LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the return of a stolen 11th or 12th Century bronze statue of Ganesha to the Republic of India, pursuant to an
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The US law firm scene has seen three major announcements of Big Law ‘splintering’ with the creation of litigation boutiques. And so the question is raised whether 2016 will be the year of the litigation boutique. As Bloomberg reported the first splinter involved 11 lawyers decamped from Arent Fox in California who went off to form
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The rapid expansion of the Asian market, together with its deregulation and lowering of trade barriers, has helped businesses expand rapidly in the region, with one exception: law firms. The legal profession has not enjoyed the same level of deregulation when handling cross-border work as the lawyers’ clients have enjoyed but they have used what
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Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised Baofeng, a Chinese internet entertainment and technology company and Everbright, a major Chinese financial services company in their successful bid through the Shanghai Jinxin investment fund to acquire a majority stake in MP & Silva Holding SA. MP& Silva is a leading international sports media rights group
