Personal injury attorney Terry Crouppen, half of the Missouri firm Brown and Crouppen has used a Super Bowl ad to slam Rams owner, billionaire Stan Kroenke. The 30 second ad is to air during Super Bowl 50 and the attorney provides some advice to “Silent Stan” Kroenke and defends the loyal Rams fans, telling Kroenke that they
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Pam Bondi today announced a $470 million joint state-federal settlement with HSBC to address mortgage origination, servicing and foreclosure abuses. The settlement with the mortgage lender and servicer provides direct payments to Florida borrowers for past foreclosure abuses and requires the company to provide loan modifications and other consumer relief. In addition
Beijing Enterprises Holdings Limited (“BEHL”) has signed an agreement to acquire from EQT Infrastructure II (“EQT”) and its affiliates collectively 100% shareholding in EEW Energy from Waste (“EEW”), the market-leading energy-from-waste company in Germany, for approximately €1,438 million. The agreement is conditional upon obtaining an approval under German Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance. The transaction
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Details About the Circle of Legal Trust program of speakers for the forthcoming meeting in Las Vegas, April 7-9 This will be a HIRL, which means, assuming Google Hangouts on Air is functioning properly, the live seminar will be simulcast live,worldwide on Google Plus. It is all here starting on Thursday, April 7 at 2:00
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Hiking tours are a great way to relax for stressed lawyers and LawFuel Travel has just unravelled 7 of the best … anywhere. If ever there was something the stressed lawyer needed it is a break – correct? And one of the best ways to take a break if you’re not into lying on silicon sand
Scheme Victimized More Than 1,000 Individuals Throughout the United States LawFuel.com – Lawyer and Law Firm News – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Benjamin C. Mizer, the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, announced that KENNETH LEVIN, the owner
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Bill Cosby is all over the TV again and for all the wrong reasons. But the prosecutor who failed to prosecute the famous entertainer in 2005 has been shredded before an audience bigger than anything Bill Cosby ever enjoyed. The Washington Post reports that Montgomery County PA, DA Bruce Castor may have offer a secret
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), William J. Bratton, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD”), and Joseph D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police
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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw & Pittman – The future of ride-sharing companies has hung in the balance for more than two years while class actions and labor complaints were pending against industry giants Uber, Lyft and others. The ride-sharing companies have primarily fought with their drivers over the driver’s employment status—a conflict between whether the drivers
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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman – In our recent post, Living in a Nonmaterial World: Determining IP Rights for Digital Data, we discussed the potential impact of the Federal Circuit decision in ClearCorrect v. ITC, 2014-1527, in which the appeals court held that the “articles that infringe” are limited to “material things” and thus do not
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