Noncustodial parents may soon be able to spend more time with their children in light of recent consideration, on the part of almost two dozen states, of a reform of child custody law that would involve shared custody of children following divorce or separation. A press release from the National Parents Organization (NPO), which supports
Internet mogul Kim Dotcom should be surrendered to the United States, a New Zealand judge has ruled. The ruling comes today following almost four years’ legal and political maneuvering regarding the man who ran the Megaupload business and following the raid on his mansion in January 2012. Dotcom faces US changes that range from copyright
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Will class action lawsuit specialists Slater + Gordon face their own lawsuit, shortly? In an ironic twist of fate if ever there was one, the world’s first publicly listed law firm is potentially facing a class action lawsuit following the financial hits the share price for the firm has taken in recent times. Slater +
Internet mogul Kim Dotcom’s fate as to whether he will be extradited from his adopted home in New Zealand to the US will be decided today. The decision is due this afternoon by a District Court judge in Auckland who has been hearing the case for two months and after years of raids, wrangling and
International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced that it partnered with the Alaska Innocence Project and the Alaska Office of Public Advocacy in reaching a settlement with the State of Alaska on December 17 that resulted in the “immediate and unconditional release” from incarceration of the Fairbanks Four – George Frese, Kevin Pease, Marvin
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LOS ANGELES – A former administrator of a Los Angeles law firm was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for embezzling more than $3.3 million from her employer. Esterlina Santos, 53, who resides in the Ladera Heights district of Los Angeles, was also ordered by United States District Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell
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Sparring judges and lawyers are nothing uncommon in court, but actually having the couple actually fight outside after the Judge himself asked the lawyer to “step outside” is taking matters to an extreme, you may think. So too did the Florida Supreme Court has overturned a penalthy imposed by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission and
Dentons – Global law firm Dentons, Colombia’s Cárdenas & Cárdenas, and Mexico’s López Velarde, Heftye y Soria (LVHS), today announced that the partners of each firm have approved the combination of the three firms, bringing the world’s largest law firm to two of Latin America’s top four economies. By combining, Cárdenas & Cárdenas,
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Foley & Lardner – Telemedicine is a key component in the health care industry shift to value-based care as a way to generate additional revenue, cut costs and enhance patient satisfaction. One of the biggest changes to health care in the last decade, telemedicine is experiencing rapid growth and deployment across a variety of applications.
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LOS ANGELES – A former special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) pleaded guilty this afternoon to accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from a man who had been accused of trafficking a woman into the United States to be a sex slave. Joohoon David Lee, 43,
