A UK Judge has not only failed to jail a 15 year old girl, saying it would be disgraceful to do so, who stabbed a 56 year old man and said he would also pay her ‘victim surcharge’ if imposed. Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC was dealing with the case involving the girl visiting the man’s
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DENVER – Eric Joseph Gow, 21, of Colorado Springs, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday, April 19th, 2016, on three counts of repeatedly pointing high intensity lasers into aircraft cockpits during critical stages of flight at the Colorado Springs Airport. Following his arrest, Gow made his initial appearance before District Court Magistrate
There is hope on the horizon for law firms in the future if they increase their marketing and business development, according to a new survey from Bloomberg Law and the Legal Marketing Association (LMA). Big Law in particular has faced some intense pressure from in house counsel, ferocious competition in some areas and soft fees.
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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JAMES J. SHEA and EUGENE FALLON were sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 18 and three months in prison, respectively, for their participation in a scheme to embezzle approximately $2.6 million from a large international insurance company.
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Skadden is representing SunEdison, Inc. in the restructuring of its balance sheet, which will be facilitated by the voluntary filing of petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 by SunEdison and certain of its domestic and international subsidiaries in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
In Excess of $8.6 Billion Recovered From Criminal and Civil Forfeiture Cases Office Also Recovers More Than $3 Billion In Civil Actions, and More Than $1Billion From Restitution, Criminal Fines, and Special Assessments Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the Office obtained recoveries of
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Dorsey & Whitney – The lure of big profits from the settlement of large personal injury law suits was the hook used by a lawyer and his partner to attract investors to Prometheus Law. The thought of all those dollars — virtually riskless profits — drew investors. But in a world that is constantly changing
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Many lawyers represent unpopular clients, but for UK lawyer Tom Giles, he takes cases that – put simply – no one else wants. The point is, Tom Giles works on detainees – those people from Afghanistan, Iraq and other locations, defending some of Britain’s most unpopular cases in an area of law most lawyers would
LawFuel.com – Law Firm Marketing and Tips – The LawFuel site has released a story interviewing seven of the major law firm marketers in the United States – but relevant to law firms everywhere – as to their Number 1 tip for marketing their firms in 2016. The “gurus” are some of the most eminent names
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LOS ANGELES – A man who was found guilty of assaulting a Deputy U.S. Marshal by trying to run him over with a minivan has been sentenced to 96 months in federal prison. Keith Leon Smith, 47, of Carson, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge R. Gary Klausner, who said the
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