CHICAGO — LawFuel.com – Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced that Jane McCahill has joined the firm’s growing Chicago office as a partner in the Healthcare Practice Group. McCahill is the most recent member of a prestigious class of laterals to join Akerman’s new Chicago office.
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SANTA ANA, California – A San Jose woman who was convicted running a Ponzi scheme that bilked over 200 victims out of more than $24 million was sentenced today to serve 151 months in federal prison. Bich Quyen Nguyen, 60, received the sentence from United States District Judge Josephine L. Staton, who said the crime
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New York State Assembly State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver has created a major problem for a range of people and institutions ranging from law firms, the Assembly to himself The spider’s web is drawn by the WSJ in the graphic. As the paper reports: Mr. Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, was charged Thursday in a criminal
Blakes Lawyers – Canada – 1 Delay social media communications Supplemental communications channels (i.e., social media) cannot be used until the information has been “generally disclosed” using traditional means. For disseminated information to qualify as generally disclosed, public investors must have been given a reasonable amount of time to analyze the information. This requirement is
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McKool Smith was awarded United States “IP Firm of the Year” at the 2015 Benchmark US awards. Fellow nominees included Fish & Richardson; Quinn Emanuel; Morrison Foerster; Sidley Austin; WilmerHale; Keker & Van Nest; and Winston & Strawn. The awards ceremony was held at the Essex House New York hotel in New York City on
The ABA Journal report on the arrest of a public defender in a San Francisco courthouse where she was attempting to represent her client. The long-time public defender, Jami Tillotson, stood with her client explaining to plain clothed police what she was doing when she was warned and then arrested, as a YouTube video (below)
British Queen Counsel Ben Emmerson this week created a storm of interest, if not controversy with his claims that Russian president Vladimir Putin ran a “mafia state” and was behind the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko was killed through poisoning with polonium, which the QC described was an “act of nuclear terrorism
Davis Polk – LawFuel Business Briefs – Developments in International and Cross-Border Insolvency We invite you to review our firm newsletter focused on current topics, critical cases and significant developments in international and cross-border insolvency. Global Distress Signal takes an in-depth look at: Recent developments in U.S. cross-border insolvency cases, including important court decisions that could
January 30, 2015 – LawFuel.com Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised the arrangers Natixis and HSBC France on the financing of the acquisition of Safic-Alcan from the investment firm Parquest Capital. The takeover of France-based Safic-Alcan is being led by its management, with support from investment funds Sagard and Euromezzanine. Safic-Alcan is
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