Mrs George Clooney took a high profile personality to a high profile case this week when she and Geoffrey Robertson QC of Doughty Street Chambers took to the European Court of Human Rights to argue the case against a Turkish politician who denied Armenian genoicide deaths in 1915. The case attracted wide interest not just […]
Every other law firm with eyes on expansion wants to be in China. But China is a highly competitive market and potentially a grave yard for failed firms. As the WSJ reported, this past week has demonstrated that graphically being both the best and the worst of times for law firms in the country. How
Tokyo, Japan – Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has advised US-based Johnson Controls, Inc. in connection with its entering into a definitive agreement with Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Appliances, Inc., to form a global HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) joint venture Through the agreement, Johnson Controls will obtain a 60 percent ownership
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Oklahoma has been ordered to postpone its use of controversial lethal injections using the sedative midazolam which has caused problems with executions in Arizona, Ohio and Oklahoma. The court’s order Wednesday came as little surprise after both the state and the lawyers for three inmates who faced execution between now and March requested the temporary
BOSTON, MA—International law firm Nixon Peabody LLP and Chicago’s Ungaretti & Harris LLP will merge effective February 1, 2015. The move reaffirms Nixon Peabody’s position as a major law firm in Chicago and the Midwest with the addition of 100 lawyers whose experience spans the full range of legal services. The combined firm retains the
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LawFuel Law News Daily – An application originating in Europe frequently encounters substantial difficulties before the USPTO. Recurrently, claims issued to a European applicant are unnecessarily narrow by US standards or unexpectedly constrained by US principles of disavowal, disclaimerand estoppel. Claim amendments and patentability arguments that are highly effective for the EPO often prove entirely
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Lockstep compensation is as much a part of most Big Law firms in Britain and some other jurisdictions as the law firm art and foyers. However mega-firm Clifford Chance is looking at changing all that with a review that is placing more attention on merit-based compensation rather than the lockstep system. Clifford Chance is not
The Lawyer has pulled out all stops to list their 100 top barristers in Britain – the Bar’s “A List” with an assemblage of legal talent ranting from those who have helped with the development of an Ebola vaccine to holding the government to account for pollution problems. First up is Richard Boulton QC of
Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Caroline D. Ciraolo, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tax Division, announced that Matthew Libous, an attorney licensed to practice in New York, was found guilty yesterday of three counts of subscribing to false tax returns for
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