Overcoming difficulties in its selected business sector of shipping and transport, a Yorkshire law firm has focused and succeeded. It is now also moving into new offices after meeting its growth targets. Myton Law is based in Hull and is now moving into its new offices at Victoria Pier despite the shipping sector suffering a […]
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Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. Lifshitz & Miller announces investigation into possible breaches of fiduciary duties by the board of Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ACAD). Specifically, on March 11, 2015, ACAD delayed the submission of a U.S. application to market its lead drug, nuplazid, and that its chief executive was retiring. For more information about our investigation, please
CHICAGO, IL – April 16, 2015 – Schiff Hardin is pleased to announce that Dr. John K. Hsu has joined the firm as a partner in the Intellectual Property group. Dr. Hsu comes to the firm from Winston & Strawn LLP, and brings with him extensive experience in intellectual property litigation. He is
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Brooks Pierce – By Edward C Winslow, a banking and corporate law specialist who is a frequent speaker and writer on topics involving financial services law and authors a blog on law practice management, called MidLaw and Divers Items. @stephenfshaw points to a Wall Street Journal blog post entitled “Is Your Job ‘Routine’? If So,
The Sony email hacks, which have been released in a WikiLeaks database, shows a variety of interesting reads between Sony’s inhouse counsel and outside attorneys, as well as issues ranging from legal fees to conflict waivers. Hacker-in-Chief Julian Assange pronounced “This archive shows the inner workings of an influential multinational corporation,” said a statement by
New York/Tokyo – Orrick announced Friday 17th April that Hiroshi Sarumida has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in its M&A and Private Equity Group and the U.S. Chair of its Japan Transactional Practice. Mr. Sarumida joins the firm from Skadden Arps, where he served as a leader of its U.S.-based
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Wilson Elser – Authors: Adam R. Bialek, Gregory N. Brescia The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, more commonly known as ICANN, has recently approved more than a thousand new general top-level domains (gTLDs), which are anticipated to launch over the next few years. Challenging the stalwart gTLDs (.com, .net, .org, .gov and .edu),
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Cindy Crawford has alleged that a picture of her in a bikini that went viral was doctored to make her look bad. Although many thought the photo of the famed model was great, taken a couple of years ago, the social networks went ballistic over the “flab”. The lawyer for Cindy Crawford’s photographer sent out
Many law firms and others will doubtless get caught by Google’s latest updates, coming on April 21. But there are some quick checks you should make now to avoid the penalty. The updates, the largest since the Panda update, will be much more mobile-focused and penalize sites that fail to make themselves readily usable on
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Video advertising may be popular among attorneys, but in this case it has been all bad publicity with an online video that created some major issues for the lawyer involved. The attorney, Jennifer Gaubert, was pronounced guilty in 2012 on an electric battery charge after specific video clip footage emerged showing her production sexual advances
