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,
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
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
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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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
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
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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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
Ballard Spahr by John C. Grugan and Tesia N. Stanl The most significant enforcement strategy the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) employed in 2014 followed a well-worn path: through its Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation Initiative (MCDC Initiative), the SEC sought to regulate issuers by leveraging its authority over underwriters. Announced on March 10, 2014,
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Quinn Emanuel – In the May 2014 issue of the Business Litigation Report, we discussed a hot topic in law and technology: cloud computing. That topic did not cool down over the summer. Businesses and courts—including the Supreme Court—have continued to grapple with issues presented by computing in the cloud, including who owns the rights
