Regulators and corporates are frustrated by the law profession’s unwillingness to acknowledge the problems they face with hacking issues. A hacked database of clients that results in the theft of client information is a major concern, but it is something that law firms have generally hidden. The NY Times Dealbook reports that frustration bubbled over
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Aviation lawyers and others are predicting a very large payout over the Germanwings crash, particularly if the airline fails to defend itself against negligence claims in respect of the ill co-pilot who set the plane on course to crash in the European alps. International agreement places a ceiling of $USD157,400 per passenger currently but the
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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROGER KEY, a/k/a “Luchie,” a violent and large-scale drug trafficker who operated in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to life plus 30 years in prison in connection with his role in carrying
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Ann Arbor –March 24, 2015– Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that Mark Malven, Ann Arbor and Bloomfield Hills-based member, authored a treatise published by the Practising Law Institute (PLI) titled, “Technology Transactions: A Practical Guide to Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Agreements.” As a recognized leader in the area of technology
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For the fifth consecutive year, Levy Konigsberg LLP, a nationally-acclaimed New York personal injury law firm with offices in New York City, White Plains, Albany, NY, as well as in New Jersey and Georgia, is recognized by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers as one of the Best Law Firms for the year
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DENVER – Candice L. White, age 42, of Centennial, Colorado, is scheduled to appear before a U.S. Magistrate Judge this afternoon after a federal grand jury in Denver indicted her on charges of embezzlement and willful misapplication of funds by a bank officer or employee, reported the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Profits-per-partner is the golden metric that top law firms, or those aspiring to increase profits, place as their holy grail. So it should come as little surprise that the top law firms in the US keep low partner concentrations in order to preserve that vital metric. Law360s ranking of the top US law firms showed
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Dropping crime generally means good policing and everything else that entails. But in the case of Texas town Sharpstown it meant firing the town police department and hiring a private security firm. Quick result: A 61 percent drop in the town’s crime rate in 20 months. That’s a result that any city or town would
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Chapman Tripp – Auckland is now ranked the ninth least affordable major city in the world on the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, with median house prices sitting at around eight times median income. The potential implications of this at both the human and the national level are serious. The effect on the banking
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Angelina Jolie’s recent surgery to have ovaries removed was accompanied by news that she had snubbed Amal Clooney, the human rights lawyer and wife of actor George Clooney. The reported snub in OK magazine was hardly detailed and simply made mention of the alleged snub notwithstanding the friendship between Mr Clooney and Jolie’s husband Brad
