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Law Firm Bird & Bird Launches IT Venture with ASE Consulting

UK Law / February 11, 2015

LawFuel.com – Partners of international law firm Bird & Bird and ASE Consulting, specialists in IT-enabled change, today announced the launch of Baseline. This unique joint venture will bring together the range of multi-disciplinary skills required to help those driving major transformational programmes, both in the UK and internationally. The new business venture will deliver […]

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Justin Bieber’s Egging Sentence Hobbled

Featured, LawStars / February 11, 2015

So how is poster Justin Bieber faring with his various legal issues, including his “egging” vandalism case? Were you wondering? Probably not, but for those who were Bieber’s attempts to complete his sentence have tripped up over an ankle injury he sustained during a soccer game, which delaye for owhich he An ankle injury has

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17 Techniques to Gain More Law Business

Law Marketing / February 11, 2015

Robert Denney Associates Inc. provides strategic management and marketing counsel to law firms throughout the United States and part of Canada. This item is from LawPracticeAdvisor • 610-644-7020 • bob@robertdenney.com • www.robertdenney.com Most law firms, regardless of size, generally depend on a few rainmakers to generate new business. What many lawyers fail to realize, however,

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Challenge #3 To Obamacare: What Does it Mean?

Featured, US Law / February 10, 2015

It will be the third legal challenge to Obamacare and in an article in The Economist, there are some clear explanations as to the competing issues for those arguing about Obamacare. The issue as to the principle that the law is what is stated by the words themselves rather than what politicians think it should

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$21 Million Movie Scam Organizers Jailed

Law Firms / February 9, 2015

LOS ANGELES – Two men who were leaders of a scheme involving a company called Gigapix that defrauded hundreds of victims by promising large returns on movie investments and a production company’s imminent public offering were sentenced today, receiving sentences of up to eight years in federal prison. The two defendants sentenced

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Larry Leverett of Pepper Hamilton Named as 2015 LCLD Fellow

Press Releases / February 9, 2015

Philadelphia – February 9, 2015 – LawFuel.com – Pepper Hamilton LLP partner Neuman “Larry” Leverett has been selected for the 2015 Fellows Program of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), a national organization comprised of the legal profession’s top general counsel and managing partners. Launched in 2011, the LCLD Fellows program is designed to

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Freshfields Seeking Fresher Fields Still

Law Firms, UK Law / February 9, 2015

Rapidly-rising London rentals – around six times the UK national average – may be pushing out one of London’s “Magic Circle” law firms, Freshfields. According to rercent reports Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has instructed real estate agents to find 100,000 square feet in Manchester to accommodate its 1300 UK staff. The reports frm the Estates Gazette

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Harper Lee’s Lawyer Describes Shock Discovery

Law Firms / February 8, 2015

The increasing controversy over the discovery and now publication of Lee Harper’s sequel to her vaunted “To Kill a Mockingbird” has been aired further with Harper’s lawyer describing how she discovered the long-lost novel. In an interview with the New York Times, Tonja Brooks Carter said she was doing some legal work for Lee one

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Mayer Brown Banking & Finance Group Expands in London with New Hire

Press Releases, UK Law / February 8, 2015

London, 5 February 2015 – LawFuel.com – Global law firm Mayer Brown today announced the appointment of senior asset-based lending (ABL) partner Alex Dell, who is widely-recognised as a leading ABL and receivables finance lawyer in the UK. His appointment will further strengthen the firm’s top-end, cross–border ABL capabilities. Alex currently leads DLA

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More Clifford Chance Partners Move to Lovells

Law Firms / February 8, 2015

Latham & Watkins appears to have been enjoying a field day raiding Clifford Chance for new partners, with the latest being two CC partners in the German officie, Olliver Felsenstein and Burc Hesse. Hesse joined Clifford Chance from Lovells in 2006, as part of Clifford Chance’s swoop on a five-strong private equity team from Lovells. The Lawyer

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