Shipman & Goodwin – On March 31, 2016, came word that members of the U.S. National Women’s Soccer Team are filing a discrimination complaint against the U.S. Soccer Federation on the grounds that they are paid less than their male counterparts. According to press reports, “the filing, citing figures from the USSF’s 2015 financial report,
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UK based, international law firm Kennedys has strengthened its insurance practice with the appointment of Ian Davies as a partner, as he becomes the third former partner of Lyons Davidson to move over. Mr Davies follows Mark Walsh and Robert Wallace, as well as solicitor Sandip Sidhu and legal executive Rachel Harbour, in joining the
Hacking into Big Law names like Cravaths, Weil Gotshal and others has raised the stakes in the cyber security threat level for law firms generally. Investigators are determining whether confidential information has been stolen from the hacking of the firms, who represent some of the biggest corporations in the world. If data has been stolen
We all know that Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner and reality star is a keen litigator. The cases may not reach court, but he loves the “Art of the Litigation”. Remember when he sued a journalist for $5 billion – that’s one journalist who might even be richer than Trump, evidently – for under estimating
William Henderson* My previous post excerpted the introduction “How to Solve the Legal Profession’s Diversity Problem.” The article suggests that our diversity challenges are rooted in a systems problem. First, our systems for selecting and developing lawyers is seldom grounded in science. Second, the functioning of these systems are seldom viewed as critical to organizational
The FBI has issued a Private Industry Notification to law firms indicating that a cyber crime insider trading ring is targeting “international law firm information used to facilitate business ventures.” According to the FBI “[T]he scheme involves a hacker compromising the law firm’s computer networks and monitoring them for material, non-public information….This information, gained prior
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At a time of turmoil people look to places of calm – safe havens and pleasant countries to savor their savings and their lives. So why are billionaires and others seeking a bolthole, or more, in this country? Favorite bolthole countries are far and wide, from Switzerland with its withering secrecy laws and beauty, Uruguay
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Is there a conflict of interest between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and her willingness to commence a prosecution of Hillary Clinton over the Clinton email server? Writing in WND.com, Jerome Corsi notes that there is little known about the fact that the Attorney General was a litigation partner in a Washington law firm that represented
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The government has asked a United States Magistrate Judge in Riverside, California to vacate her order compelling Apple to assist the FBI in unlocking the iPhone that was used by one of the terrorists who murdered 14 innocent Americans in San Bernardino on December 2nd of last year. Our decision to conclude the
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LOS ANGELES – A JetBlue flight attendant who allegedly attempted to use her credentials to bring nearly 70 pounds of cocaine through a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airporton Friday was charged today with a federal narcotics trafficking offense. Marsha Reynolds, 31, of Jamaica, New York, was taken into custody this afternoon
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