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DLA Piper’s Corporate Practice in Hong Kong Strengthened with New Partner

Law Firms / February 23, 2015

LawFuel.com – Melody He-Chen has joined DLA Piper as a partner in the Corporate practice in Hong Kong, adding further strength to the firm’s award-winning Capital Markets Group. He-Chen advises investment banks and corporations on capital markets and corporate matters in Asia and the United States, where she has also practiced. She focuses on

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The Lawyer Behind #OscarsSoWhite & The Best Picture

LawStars / February 23, 2015

“American Sniper” ; “Boyhood” – best picture at the Oscars. We’ll, we don’t know because as this goes to air the Oscars are just beginning. But whatever the outcome, whatever movie is best picture this year, for lawyer April Reign they’re all just too white. Reign is also a social media expert and blogger who

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The Fear of Deportation is Very Similar to the Fear of Torture

Briefings, Law Firms / February 23, 2015

Shah Peerally, Esq. Shah Peerally is principal in Immigration law firm The Shah Peerally Law Group Lately, the news has been filled with immigration matters especially since president Obama has set out his famous “Executive Orders” allowing millions of immigrants to get a work permit and stay in the United States on a deferred action

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Big Law Employee’s Racy Lawsuit

Lawyers / February 22, 2015

It’s an unusual employment court case, even for a law firm. Or, we should say MORE so for being a law firm. It involves a Big Law employee who authored a steamy, erotic novel and whose employment was terminated amid claims of sexual harassment following a drunken sexual encounter with a former partner in the

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Hogan Lovell’s Pro Bono Initiative

Featured / February 20, 2015

Lawyers Hogan Lovells have put in place what may be the first pro bono program for AMLaw 100 firms that involve not just their lawyers, but non-lawyers as well, to engage in community service work. Hogan Lovells employee over 5000 staff iin 25 countries and their proposal involves handling community service of 25 hours a

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How Lawyers Can Avoid a Social Media Nightmare

Law Marketing / February 20, 2015

The recent media nightmare for Clifford Chance and their YouTube debacle has highlighted the need for law firms to take extra care over how they handle media, particularly social media. The need for firms to adopt a comprehensive and effective social media policy has never been greater. The dubious actions of disgruntled employees or malevolent

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The Law 100: White & Case Rule

Law Firms / February 20, 2015

Raking up $1.5 billion in gross revenues is no mean achievement. Nor is $2 million in profits per partner. Nor is $800,000 in revenues per lawyer. Those are the figures that Am Law Daily is reporting in the Am Law 100/200 review. For the first time, the firm reached $1.5 billion in gross revenue, $2

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Quarles & Brady Holds Open House for New Indianapolis Office

Press Releases / February 20, 2015

Firm Welcomes Indianapolis Community to Tour New Space Indianapolis, Ind. (February 20, 2015) – LawFuel.com – Law Firm News – The law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP announced the opening of its new Indianapolis office space today, celebrating with an open house for invited local stakeholders. The new office is located on the 24th

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Surrogancy Fraud: Surrogacy Agency Pleads Guilty to Ripping Off Would-Be Parents

Featured / February 20, 2015

LOS ANGELES – The owner of a Glendora egg donation and surrogacy company pleaded guilty late this afternoon to a federal wire fraud charge and admitted defrauding would-be parents, egg donors and surrogates over the course of more than three years. Allison Layton, a 38-year-old resident of Star, Idaho, pleaded guilty before United States District

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“Sex and the Law Professor” – From His Student

Law Firms / February 20, 2015

Sex and the law is always a somewhat tantalizing topic, but for the issue of teacher-student relationships there has always been a somewhat conflicted attitude in the academe it seems. Whilst frowned upon, it is seen by some in the professorial class as being something akin to a fringe benefit. We remember – don’t we?

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