New Zealand Solicitor General Michael Heron QC has quit in an announcment made by the Attorney General today. LawFuel had been told that Mr Heron was unhappy with his position although the reason given in the official statement from the Attorney General was that he had provided the three years service he had promised and […]
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A top Australian Queens Counsel, particularly one who charges up to $10,000 a day, can charge for many things, but snoring in Court is not one of them. David Tait QC fell asleep during an inquest into a race car driver’s death yesterday, resulting in his apology to the Court when he explained that a
LawFuel.com –Lexi J. Hazam of the national plaintiffs’ law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, announced that the adult children of Renate Winkler as administrators of her estate have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Pentax Medical, a division of Pentax of America, Inc., and Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, which is located in the
LAS VEGAS, NV LawFuel.com SEPTEMBER 01, 2015– LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading provider of content and technology solutions, announced today a new business development (BD) module – Business Edge – for theLexisNexis InterAction® CRM product line. The Business Edge module is specifically designed for large law firms, and empowers the organization to build firm-wide
NEW YORK, 1 September 2015 – Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that Oliver J. Armas has been named the new managing partner of the New York office. Armas handles cross-border litigation, international arbitrations, and internal investigations. In addition, Business Restructuring and Insolvency partner Christopher R. Donoho III will take over as the new administrative
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LOS ANGELES – An attorney who allegedly took several million dollars in investment capital from clients and used the funds for personal expenses and luxury items was indicted today by a federal grand jury. Stephen Young Kang, 46, of Newport Beach, was named in a 25-count indictment filed in United States District Court in Los
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“New Law” is generally better than Big Law, according to a new report from the Harvard Business Review. “Better” means more work-life balance in the case of the entrepreneurial legal ventures that provide innovative new ways to practice law, such as Axiom, which already has half of the Fortune 100 as its clients, and Counsel
Quoting a TV satirist in a Supreme Court judgment, almost as if he was a legal authority, was probably something John Oliver never expected. However Clinton appointee Judge Marsha S Berzon cited Oliver in a class action lawsuit brought against Guam, which challenges their tax refund program. The Judge cited the ‘insular cases’, a group
Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom LLP – Matthew P Hendrickson, Rita Sinkfield Belin, Brian C Mohr and Steven Albertson On August 24, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a consent settlement based on an application of the investment-only exemption to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act’s premerger notification requirements. The settlement relates to the 2011 acquisitions of
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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC – By Yova Borovska – Employers rarely question the general rule that independent contractors are not required to complete a form I-9. Most employers believe that, if an individual is labeled as an independent contractor, a form I-9 is not required. In our experience defending clients in I-9 enforcement audits by
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