Numerous Others Have Also Pled Guilty to Their Role in Massive Fraud Scheme Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that TATYANA GABINSKAYA was found guilty Friday, October 3, 2014, of various health care fraud and mail fraud offenses following a two-week jury trial before […]
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Clifford Chance – In September, amendments to the proposed reforms to IORP II were published in the First Presidency compromise text as the proposal moves through the EU’s co-decision legislative process. The European Commission had published its proposal to revise the IORP Directivei in March this year. The revised directive, the so-called IORP II Directive,
Australian lawyers at the top firms either met or exceeded their pro bono quotas, according to the Australian National Pro Bono Resource Centre (NPBRC), which involved an annual target of 35 hours per lawyer per year. The target was reached by over half of the top 20 firms. Seventeen firms are signatories to the target.
Women are slowly – but hopefully surely – climbing to the top of major law firms. The debate over women leadership and partnership numbers in law firms has long been debated and argued, but two recent announcements give cause for hope for women lawyers. Jami Wintz McKeon (pictured) has become the first female chair of Morgan
Hollywood lawyer Martin Singer has threatened Google with a $100 million lawsuit over nude pictures circulated online following Apple’s iCloud being hacked. Singer evidently represents over a “dozen female celebrities” according to reports. Singer’s letter to the search giant says that the company is unfairly making money from unfair treatment of women, and that it
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Robin Oliver works at JDSupra as business development manager and wrote a useful and pertinent post about lawyers and how they should be marketing their content. My friend and colleague Adrian Lurssen has a mantra you may have heard him utter over the years at various conferences and on webinars to do with content marketing:
On September 8, 2014, Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard of the Delaware Court of Chancery granted Cravath’s motion to dismiss in its entirety a putative class action lawsuit filed by the City of Providence on behalf of shareholders of First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (“First Citizens North”). The suit challenged the company’s forum-selection bylaw — adopted on
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It’s where reality TV meets reality law with the sentencing of “Real Housewives” stars Teresa Giudice and husband Giuseppe Giudice (“Joe”) to prison for 15 months and 41 months respectively. The sentencing drew overflow crowds to the Federal Court in New Jersey after the couple, who star in “Real Housewives of New Jersey” plead guilty
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Another day, another atrocity committed by ISIS with the beheading of UK aid worker David Henning, with the release of a video purporting to show the terror group’s murder-by-social media war crime. Once again it was a picture of a man in a Guantanamo-style orange jump suit kneeling in a bland landscape. The killer’s voice
Olympic champion Michael Phelps is having a further brush with the DUI law after being arrested for the second time on DUI charges in Baltimore, his home town. The top swimmer is hoping to make the Rio Olympics, but the further DWI setback could create issues for that aim. He issued an apology that sounded
