LawFuel.com – Law Firm News – International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that it is expanding in China and has opened an office in Beijing. The Beijing office is located in Beijing’s central business district at Suite 1101A, West Tower, Twin Towers, B12, Jianguomenwai Avenue, Chaoyang district, Beijing 100022, Main Phone: +86
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice has reached 70 settlements involving 457 hospitals in 43 states for more than $250 million related to cardiac devices that were implanted in Medicare patients in violation of Medicare coverage requirements, the Department of Justice announced today. “While recognizing and respecting physician judgment, the department will hold
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Choosing law school is something many lawyers – or aspiring lawyers – do as an almost knee-jerk reaction to their vaguely formed opinions as to what it must be like to be Harvey Specter in “Suits”, or perhaps Ally McBeal. However, the problem is that the right questions are frequently remaining unasked. The questions that
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LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHARLES A. BENNETT pled guilty in Manhattan federal court today to an Indictment charging him with securities and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud over 30 investors of more than $5 million over the
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Are some law firms already too late to take advantage of the changes being introduced by technology? According to a new survey from consultants Altman Weil, smart technology is already replacing the ability of lawyers to deliver legal services in the traditional manner, a process that may amount to a “mortal threat” to some law
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Iraq remains a mess and maybe President Obama is now relying on a lawyer to help clean it up. The President announced Friday that retired Marine Gen. John Allen was being replaced by lawyer and diplomat Brett McGurk as his special envoy to Syria and Iraq. McGurk had earlier worked as a law clerk
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
