How did a smart lawyer holding three degrees and who once counted Chief Justice John G Roberts as one of his class mates wind up haunting a Washington DC intersection and carrying his belongings in a plastic bag wind up as a homeless man? It’s a sad tale of a highly educated, talented man who
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WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced today a groundbreaking settlement to resolve allegations that American Honda Finance Corporation (Honda) engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African-American, Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander borrowers in auto lending. Honda is based in Torrance, California. The
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Conservative FOX News commentator Bill O’Reilly who has embraced his activism calling for a petition to declare that undocumented alienswho are deported and return to the US would receive a mandatory five year jail term. The petition, shown below, is addressed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). At
Fisher & Phillips – When an employee resigns to join a competitor, it is important to respond promptly. Odds are that the employee has been orchestrating his or her departure for weeks or months. The security of your trade secrets and/or customer relationships may have already been compromised. It is important to act quickly. Here
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BakerHostetler – Alan Friel – The emergence of mega-suite vendors, more use of the cloud, increases in data breach frequency and cost and big data privacy impacts make healthcare IT vendor arrangements more complex, and solid agreements between healthcare organizations and HIT vendors more important than ever. Addressing key legal and business issues during the
A great work environment is key to achieving high productivity for lawyers. Yet a study from a major UK real estate consultancy has found that law firms (at least in the UK) are lagging behind other professionals in achieving great locations and a top environment. Duncan Weston, the Managing Partner at CMS Cameron McKenna wrote
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Law firm technology issues are a huge expense very often, yet they also provide equally large efficiences. But what are the best ways for a small law firm to start going about changing technology and better organising your law practice? A checklist was recently provided in an AbovetheLaw article by Jeff Bennion which looked at
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The passing of the same-sex legislation has seen the first LGBT divorce practise with a Philadelphia lawyer claiming that pioneering legal role. Conor Corcoran says he is ready to serve gay and lesbian couples who will need divorces, realizing that not all such marriages “would end in bliss”. “The whole thing about the sanctity of straight
Australian lawyers are in the money big time over a Corruption Inquiry that will see them taking in around $25 million in legal fees, with most of that going to Minter Ellison. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that barristers and solicitors are raking in about $25 million of taxpayer cash for their work on the
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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DANIEL PAGANO, a Captain of the Genovese Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra (the “Genovese Crime Family”) was sentenced to a term of 27 months in prison for his leadership role in the Genovese Crime Family. PAGANO
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