April 8, 2015 – DLA Piper announced today that Mike Piazza has joined the firm’s Litigation practice as a partner in the Los Angeles office. Piazza focuses his practice on securities and white collar litigation, defending individuals and companies before US regulators, the US Department of Justice, state attorneys general, and foreign […]
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Global law firm Dentons is to merge with Atlanta-based law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge, which will give the world’s largest law firm an even bigger legal clout. The merger would provide added presence in key US markets including not just Atlanta, but LA, San Francisco and Washington DC. Like DLA Piper, Dentons has grown
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings. The 2013 attack was the most serious in the US since the 9/11 attacks. The jury took a day and a half to find Tsarnaev guilty of the 30 counts he faced. He was also found guilty of murdering a policeman, car
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Philadelphia – April 8, 2015 – Joan C. Arnold, a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP and chair of the firm’s Tax Practice Group, has been elected president of the American College of Tax Counsel (ACTC), the preeminent professional association of tax lawyers in private practice. Ms. Arnold is the first woman to hold the office
Weil Gotshal & Manges is a major, white shoe law firm. But their April fools joke went down like they had their feet in their mouths. Big mistake Weil. They ‘joke’ was a work/life balance one – you’ve heard them, we’re sure. It declared that under a firm-wide, new email policy no emails were to
“Top Gear” host Jeremy Clarkson is not to face prosecution for his “fracas” (ie an alleged assault upon a producer) after a “victim lead” and “routine enquiries” had been completed by Police. But the entertaining and mischevious Clarkson is still fired from the BBC’s top show. Clarkson has been providing some good fodder for lawyers
LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury today indicted the general manager of a La Puente garment factory on charges of offering to pay bribes to an investigator with the United States Department of Labor in exchange for the investigator closing an investigation into wage violations. Howard Quoc Trinh, 41, of Arcadia,
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King & Wood Mallesons – The OECD delivered a stinging assessment of Australia’s lack of enforcement of foreign bribery laws this week in its report on Australia’s implementation of the OECD anti-bribery convention. A lack of successful prosecutions and poor investigative performance by regulatory agencies came in for particular criticism. The report follows a month
Taking on the big guns in Silicon Valley – some of the most powerful businessmen and women in the world – is not necessarily for everyone. But for class action litigator Jay Edelson they are the people he has in his sights, having sued all the big names from “A” (Amazon and Apple) to “G”
It’s an ugly word and an even more ugly trend, but “jihadimania” is occurring in Britain with the risk of young Britons and others seeing the lure of ISIS as something akin to pop idol worship. The trend has been reported by one of Britain’s leading Muslim prosecutors, Nazir Afzal, who said that many more
