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Lex Mundi Convene For Top Level Business Training for Lawyers

Press Releases / January 14, 2016

(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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Immigration Attorney Arrested Over Alleged Immigration Fraud Offenses

Law Firms / January 14, 2016

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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Butler Snow Opens First Office in Asia

Press Releases / January 12, 2016

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

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Superman Wins in Power of Parody Fight

Briefings, Featured / January 10, 2016

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.

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Are Law Firms Going the Way Of Eastman Kodak?

Law Firm Management, Law Firm Marketing / January 8, 2016

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

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Uber Are Messing With The “Avenging Angel” Lawyer

Lawyers / January 6, 2016

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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Why The New and Unique Whistleblower Law Firm Set Up

Law Firms / January 4, 2016

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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Why “Making a Murderer” Keeps This Attorney Up at Night

Law Firms / January 4, 2016

“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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The 10 Worst Drug and Medical Device Decisions in 2015

Briefings / January 3, 2016

Reed Smith – James Beck – In the original Hunger Games movie, while Katniss and Rue are plotting to blow up the Careers’ food stash, Katniss remarks that “destroying things is much easier than making them.” That’s how we feel about our bottom ten worst prescription drug and medical device decisions of 2015. It’s so

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“Human Intervention” in Yahoo! Messaging Service Left for Jury

Briefings / January 3, 2016

Reed Smith – On December 14, 2015, a federal judge in the Southern District of California concluded that a jury should decide whether Yahoo is liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. § 227, for “welcome messages” automatically sent via the Yahoo Messenger platform, even though the messages were triggered by the

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