For the fifth consecutive year, Levy Konigsberg LLP, a nationally-acclaimed New York personal injury law firm with offices in New York City, White Plains, Albany, NY, as well as in New Jersey and Georgia, is recognized by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers as one of the Best Law Firms for the year […]
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DENVER – Candice L. White, age 42, of Centennial, Colorado, is scheduled to appear before a U.S. Magistrate Judge this afternoon after a federal grand jury in Denver indicted her on charges of embezzlement and willful misapplication of funds by a bank officer or employee, reported the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Profits-per-partner is the golden metric that top law firms, or those aspiring to increase profits, place as their holy grail. So it should come as little surprise that the top law firms in the US keep low partner concentrations in order to preserve that vital metric. Law360s ranking of the top US law firms showed
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Dropping crime generally means good policing and everything else that entails. But in the case of Texas town Sharpstown it meant firing the town police department and hiring a private security firm. Quick result: A 61 percent drop in the town’s crime rate in 20 months. That’s a result that any city or town would
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Chapman Tripp – Auckland is now ranked the ninth least affordable major city in the world on the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, with median house prices sitting at around eight times median income. The potential implications of this at both the human and the national level are serious. The effect on the banking
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Angelina Jolie’s recent surgery to have ovaries removed was accompanied by news that she had snubbed Amal Clooney, the human rights lawyer and wife of actor George Clooney. The reported snub in OK magazine was hardly detailed and simply made mention of the alleged snub notwithstanding the friendship between Mr Clooney and Jolie’s husband Brad
It’s an age of the ‘startup’, the transformational, entrepreneurial success story (we hope) company that lawyers an help develop into the potential the investors see in their Big Idea. But what can lawyers do to actually help startups? So let’s say you have signed a letter of intent to help the startup and you want
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LONDON – LawFuel.com – Allen & Overy has advised Etihad Airways, the UAE’s national carrier, on an innovative and ground breaking transaction which has seen Korean financial institutions provide a 15 year 100% financing for Etihad’s second new Airbus A380 aircraft. With no other bank debt support, it is the first pre-funded 100% financing by
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Skadden Arps – Global M&A activity jumped in 2014, with over 40,000 tracked transactions totaling approximately $3.5 trillion in value.1 This represents the biggest year for M&A since 2007, the last year before the impact of the global financial crisis was fully felt. Favorable conditions, such as higher stock price levels, abundant cash resources and
LOS ANGELES – The daughter of a Mexican Mafia member who acted as the conduit between her father and South Los Angeles street gangs he controlled from state prison was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison on racketeering charges. Vianna Roman, 39, of South Los Angeles, received a 180-month prison term from United
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