DLA Piper – Kevin Morris joins DLA Piper as West Coast Venture Pipeline Executive, based in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. In this role, he will work to enhance the funding prospects of early and emerging growth companies by leveraging the firm’s relationships with the investor community. He was previously in the Technology, Media, and
We read daily of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton’s runoffs in the current presidential campaign, but there are lawyers involved here and there too – including Cruz, a former lawyer himself. LawFuel has provided a quick-fire list of some of the attorneys most prominent in the current runoff. Let’s start with the biggest lawyer of
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(HOUSTON, January 14, 2016) In a continuing effort to increase the impact and effectiveness of lawyers working with their clients, Lex Mundi recently presented the third annual Lex Mundi Institute Business Management Program in collaboration with the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. The Business Management Program is designed to increase the impact and effectiveness
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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Glenn Sorge, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (“ICE”), Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), and Timothy Houghton, Acting District Director of the New York District of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”), announced today the
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SINGAPORE, Jan. 11, 2016– Butler Snow, a law firm with more than 300 practicing lawyers and 18 offices throughout the U.S. and London, has opened its first office in Asia in Singapore and a virtual office in Hong Kong. Butler Snow’s Singapore office will concentrate on delivering U.S. tax and estate planning advice to ultra-high
Dorsey & Whitney – Superman has triumphed yet again, this time with help from the federal court in the Central District of California. It wasn’t actually Superman that scored this particular victory, but DC Comics, owner of the trademark rights in Superman’s iconic shield design. On December 15, 2015, the court in DC Comics v.
We have reported frequently here about the challenges facing law firms, with mergers, technology changes, billing practices and more. But now, yet another study has come out to show that law firms face irrelevance and face obsolescence, just like some redundant auto industry relic. The study, from Georgetown University Law Center says the industry is
A lawyer described as the “avenging angel for labor” could be the face that Uber grows to fear. Shannon Liss-Riordan has already been christianed by the Boston Globe as the “avenging angel” for the work she has done beating companies like Starbucks and FedEx in labor cases. Now she has her eyes on the $50-billion-plus
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New law firms are relatively everyday occurrences, but a new firm set up in Washington DC has a new twist we haven’t heard of before: a Whistleblower-friendly firm that has launched a new False Claims Act law firm – ProtectUS Law. Set up by False Claims Act relator and lawyer Neal Roberts (pictured), there is
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“Making a Murderer”, the 10 part Netflix documentary on the Steven Avery murder case is a case that continues to keep one of Avery’s attorneys up at night, almost a decade later. Attorney Dean Strang was a key player in the series involving the conviction and life sentence of Avery for the killing of photographer
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