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Cocaine Deals For Missiles and Dirty Bombs Gets 13 Year Prison Term

Featured / April 4, 2016

Jhon Jairo Cruz Trejos, a/k/a “Mellizo,” Attempted to Broker Cocaine-Financed Weapons Deals Involving Highly Enriched Uranium, Missiles, and Machine Guns Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JHON JAIRO CRUZ TREJOS, a/k/a “Mellizo,” a citizen of Colombia, was sentenced today to 13 years in prison

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How To Lift Referral Rates To Dramatically Increase Small Law Firm Profits

Law Marketing / April 4, 2016

By Colin Ritchie* How would you like to dramatically lift your legal practice profits next year by lifting revenue? What if you could ensure that the additional revenue was from fantastic new clients that you really enjoy working with? Sounds too good to be true, but you can do it with referrals. Let me

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Putin’s Lawyer-Go-Round And the Secret Network

Featured / April 4, 2016

Russian President Vladimir Putin Holds Meetings As Ukrainian Crisis Escalates

The Panamanian law firm at the center of the current scandal over high level tax evasion and asset-hiding, relies on an extensive network to do its dirty work – and they include lawyers, bankers and accountants to support its high net-worth clients. Mossack Fonseca is based in Panama and has made millions from its high net

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The Panama Papers Leak – Is It The Ashley Madison For Cheats?

Law Firms / April 4, 2016

For a firm dealing with the super-rich, super-elite, super-secret, Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca has just become a euphemism for all of those things. And for many of the wrong reasons. The firm is very well known in a lot of people in those groups, but now thanks to a leak of massive volumes of documents

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Women Lawyers Finding It Tough In The Saudi Kingdom of Radical Islam

Lawyers / April 4, 2016

So women lawyers in Saudi Arabia are finding it tough going in the Kingdom of Radical Islam? What else could surprise us more in this relentlessly mysongist and misanthropic disaster-zone country than women finding it tough? After all, this is the home of the original Wahhabi radical Islam, something the Huffington Post recently described as

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5 Reasons Why Dating a Long Term Single Man or Woman Is Difficult

Press Releases / April 1, 2016

Dating a man or woman who has been single for a lengthy period presents unique challenges in the dating world – but the need to understand the reasons why the problems exist can also help solve them – and establish a long term relationship that is unique satisfying. we spoke with long term relationship expert

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Pay Disparity By Gender in Sport – The Win/Lose Fight

Briefings / April 1, 2016

Shipman & Goodwin – On March 31, 2016, came word that members of the U.S. National Women’s Soccer Team are filing a discrimination complaint against the U.S. Soccer Federation on the grounds that they are paid less than their male counterparts. According to press reports, “the filing, citing figures from the USSF’s 2015 financial report,

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UK Law Firm Kennedy’s Welcome Trio of Lawyers

Law Firms, UK Law / April 1, 2016

UK based, international law firm Kennedys has strengthened its insurance practice with the appointment of Ian Davies as a partner, as he becomes the third former partner of Lyons Davidson to move over. Mr Davies follows Mark Walsh and Robert Wallace, as well as solicitor Sandip Sidhu and legal executive Rachel Harbour, in joining the

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Why Have Hackers Targeted Big Law?

Law Firms / April 1, 2016

Hacking into Big Law names like Cravaths, Weil Gotshal and others has raised the stakes in the cyber security threat level for law firms generally. Investigators are determining whether confidential information has been stolen from the hacking of the firms, who represent some of the biggest corporations in the world. If data has been stolen

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Donald Trump and The Art of the Litigation

Law Firms / March 31, 2016

We all know that Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner and reality star is a keen litigator. The cases may not reach court, but he loves the “Art of the Litigation”. Remember when he sued a journalist for $5 billion – that’s one journalist who might even be richer than Trump, evidently – for under estimating

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