LOS ANGELES – A former special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) pleaded guilty this afternoon to accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from a man who had been accused of trafficking a woman into the United States to be a sex slave. Joohoon David Lee, 43,
Clifford Chance – Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised China Energy Engineering Corporation Limited (CEEC) on its US$1.8 billion IPO. CEEC is one of the largest comprehensive solutions providers for the power industry in China and globally. The team was led by partner Tim Wang and US securities partner Fang Liu. They were
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The Bill Cosby defamation/sex assault legal mess just got messier. And now the lawyers are being deposed and allegedly “harassed” in the ongoing litigation. Lawyers for the comedian, who has filed defamation lawsuits against seven of his accusers, are to resist attempts by the accusers’ lawyers to have his wife provide a sworn deposition in
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the arrest of STUART SCHLESINGER for defrauding his clients by failing to pay them millions of dollars in personal injury settlements
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Matt Thompson* – A recent survey of law firm business development and marketing professionals suggests the strategies and tactics law firms use to generate new business is changing. According to the study, law firms appear to be shaking the negative fallout of the economic downturn. Nearly 50 percent of firms report feeling upbeat about new
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Casey Neistat is a ‘travel blogger’ who appears to travel the world for nothing. But – as he says himself – it really doesn’t work quite like that because he makes videos for which his travel is sponsored. In this post, he writes about the travelling he does do for . . well, almost nothing.
LawFuel Editors – Generating clients for your firm is always a number 1 priority – or close to it – but the changing social media scene also changes the approach you need to take in generating leads that can create growth. So what can you expect in 2016 that will let you take advantage of
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Kelley Drye & Warren – Andreas Becker, Lee Brenner In Biro v. Condé Nast, et al., the Second Circuit recently determined that, in a defamation action, limited-purpose public figures must plead in a “plausible way” that the defendants acted with actual malice, citing Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8 and the Supreme Court’s decisions in Iqbal andTwombly.
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The Climate Change Agreement struck in Paris this weekend has not been without law firms who have used the conference to develop their ‘climate change’ practices and lawyers will be loving the agreement. Among the firms attending have been Baker & McKenzie who have been driven to the “COP 21” conference (for ‘Conference of the Parties’
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