The Los Angeles-based IP specialists Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s recent seminar on virtual currencies indicated the digital currency is here to stay, although bitcoins may not be the cryptocurrency de jour. Gibson Dunn partner Judith Alison Lee, based in the firm’s DC office said digital currency would remain a recurring trend. Lee is also the […]
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Slaughter and May – The new Companies Ordinance was passed by the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on 12 July 2012 and will come into force on 3 March 2014. This tool kit of publications will guide you through the key areas of change. Directors’ Duties of Care, Skill & Diligence SUMMARY OF CHANGES at
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Gaston Kroub is a founding partner of Kroub, Silbersher & Kolmykov PLLC, an intellectual property litigation boutique. You can reach him at gkroub@kskiplaw.com. This column appeared in AbovetheLaw. Anyone reading this knows that law is a competitive industry. And it’s very hard to take business from an incumbent law firm, especially when law firms have
LOS ANGELES – The ex-wife of a former Chinese official was arrested today in Newcastle, Washington, on charges that she and her former husband fraudulently obtained visas to enter the United States through the immigrant investor program and laundered money to purchase property in Washington state. Shilan Zhao (趙世蘭), 51, of Newcastle,
Philadelphia, PA – March 17, 2015 – Pepper Hamilton partner Kassem L. Lucas has been named one of 2015’s most influential black lawyers by Savoy magazine. Lucas, a partner in the Commercial Litigation Practice Group in the Philadelphia office, concentrates his practice in complex commercial litigation, reinsurance law and arbitration, insurance counseling,
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Ronald Rotunda is a professor at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law and the co-author, with John Nowak, of “Treatise on Constitutional Law” (Thomson Reuters, fifth edition, 2013). He explains that it is a crime to delete even one email that has been subpoenaed. The fact that Hillary Clinton exclusively used a private server in
Ifrah Law – Nicole Kardell – Are you an American abroad living in perpetual fear of the IRS? Do you wake up every morning wondering if today you’ll receive a formidable notice that the taxman cometh? You are not alone. Expats around the world are facing (and fearing) the painful reality that the IRS’s global
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LawFuel.com -International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised HKBN Ltd. (HKBN) and CVC Capital Partners (CVC) on HKBN’s US$750m IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. HKBN is the parent company of Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited, the largest provider of residential fibre broadband services in Hong Kong by number of residential subscriptions. On
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The growth in cyber attacks upon companies, highlighted by the problems Sony Pictures recently experienced, has also heightened the need for more education about what companies need to do in order to keep themselves ‘cyberattack-safe’. Australian law firm Wootton & Kearney has indicated that 2015 could provide a boom year for hackers and those who
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” actor Nicholas Brendon is in trouble again having been arrested in Florida on charges of criminal mischief and property damage after attending an ALT*Con festival. Evidently Brendon was in a “state of confusion” and drunk. A hotel attendant reportedly noticed his dishevelled state, including toothpaste over his face, torn pants and
