LOS ANGELES – Five assistant United States attorneys have received Attorney General Awards for their extraordinary work on cases involving historic settlements with a credit ratings agency and one of the nation’s largest banks. The five prosecutors were honored yesterday at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. attended by the honorees, their families and […]
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Benjamin Crump is the go-to lawyer for racially-inflamed police shootings and now, with the Corey Jones shooting in Miami, he once again heads for the white-hot limelight of a black shooting. Mr Crump has become a nationally renowned civil rights attorney who has frequently represented colored people who have alleged the violation of rights by
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October 19, 2015 – DLA Piper announced today that Mark McKeen has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation practice in San Francisco. McKeen focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on the real estate industry. This includes real property law, environmental claims, business torts, trade secrets, unfair competition, Uniform
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It was a trial over the biggest law firm failure in history. And even that has failed. A New York judge has declared a mistrial in respect of three former Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP executives in New York. It was always going to be a tough trial and so it proved for the jurors, defendants
Look, we’re not sexist at LawFuel and hesitate before recording a sponsored post from Buzzfeed (via “Suits”) as to the best pickup lines for lawyers, who can use their best legal jardon to – presumably – the best effect. But here they are anyway and we hang our heads in collective shame but because we
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LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division, announced that HAROON ASWAT was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Katherine B. Forrest to 20 years in prison for terrorism offenses relating to ASWAT’s efforts to establish
The Philippines elections are shaping up with some “evil plans”, according to lawyers representing Senator Grace Poe who has announced her candidacy for president but faces a disqualification case filed against her. The dramatic events were expected according to Senator Poe’s lawyers. Lawyer Estrella Elamparo, who is a former legal counsel of the Government Service
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Skadden represented L1E in its $1.6 billion acquisition of E.ON E&P Norge AS, an owner of Norwegian North Sea oil and gas exploration and production assets, from E.ON Beteiligungen GmbH, announced October 14. The firm also represented L1E in its $725 million sale of DEA UK Holdings Limited, an owner of British North Sea oil
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LOS ANGELES – A former officer with the Transportation Security Administration was indicted today by a federal grand jury on narcotics and bribery charges for allegedly accepting payment to allow checked bags filled with marijuana to be cleared through screening checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport. Deondre Smith, 33, of South Los Angeles, was named
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It was regarded as one of the young, busy and successful law firms that was taking Britain by storm. But no longer. Blavo & Co had a multi-million pound turnover and 20 offices throughout Britain, but the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has closed it down. The SRA said that it decided to intervene because there
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