Another large law firm has filed for bankruptcy after $20 million apparently went missing and the recriminations are mounting as to just who was responsible for the collapse. Morris Schneider Wittstadt was a large residential real estate closing firm and filed for Chapter 11 protection on Sunday. At one time the firm had over 150
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Hong Kong, 7 July 2015 – Mayer Brown JSM intends to form an association with the Hong Kong office of Jingtian & Gongcheng (“Jingtian”), which will be established upon the receipt of regulatory approval from The Law Society of Hong Kong. Under this arrangement, Mayer Brown JSM will provide office space and other resources to
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Medical identity theft is at epidemic levels. In the first four months of 2015, nearly 100 million medical records were stolen by hackers—a 150% increase over the prior four years combined. During the past 12 months, half of all health care organizations in the country have been breached. Hackers are targeting personal medical information because
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He might have been the luvable Dr Huxtable and comedian, but Bill Cosby’s recently publicized revelations regarding his admissions as to drugging women for sex have all but destroyed what remained of his reputaiton. Those with totally different memories of the man are a range of women who report having been sexually assaulted by him.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder enjoyed mixed success – if ‘success’ can be used – in his role but now he’s turning from gamekeeper to poacher, some might say. Writing on The Intercept, Lee Fangs says: After failing to criminally prosecute any of the financial firms responsible for the market collapse in 2008, former Attorney
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Marketing law firms has increasingly become both more significant and more vexed. How much resource should a firm allocate to marketing? More importantly, to which of the various competitive areas should the firm devote its marketing budget? The need to match the marketing budget with firm goals is important. And for major law firms the
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July 6, 2015 – DLA Piper announced that John (Jay) Watkins has joined the firm’s Corporate practice as a partner in the Baltimore office. Watkins, who earlier in his career was a corporate partner in Baltimore with DLA Piper’s predecessor firm Piper & Marbury, focuses on private equity, venture capital, M&A, securities, and debt and
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It’s not every lawyer who has his own radio show, but for prominent California immigration attorney Shah Peerally he has not only had one, but it is now entering its sixth successful year on air. The Shah Peerally Law Show is celebrating its fifth year hosting a unique law show on KLOK 1170. The show has
Grays Inn is one of Britain’s most eminent Chambers, but according to a leading British law blog the Chambers “has gone into lockdown” after one of its members was fined for inappropriate sexual conduct. Legal Cheek reports that one of its pupil supervisors was slapped with a £4,000 fine for engaging in “conduct of a sexual nature
Kirkland & Ellis represented Ascendent Capital Partners, an independent China-focused private equity firm, on the first and final closing of its second private equity fund. The fund closed at its hard cap with aggregate capital commitments of US$600 million, exceeding its initial target of US$500 million. The fund will continue Ascendent’s investment strategy in large-scale
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