LOS ANGELES – The ex-wife of a former Chinese official was arrested today in Newcastle, Washington, on charges that she and her former husband fraudulently obtained visas to enter the United States through the immigrant investor program and laundered money to purchase property in Washington state. Shilan Zhao (趙世蘭), 51, of Newcastle,
Philadelphia, PA – March 17, 2015 – Pepper Hamilton partner Kassem L. Lucas has been named one of 2015’s most influential black lawyers by Savoy magazine. Lucas, a partner in the Commercial Litigation Practice Group in the Philadelphia office, concentrates his practice in complex commercial litigation, reinsurance law and arbitration, insurance counseling,
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Ronald Rotunda is a professor at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law and the co-author, with John Nowak, of “Treatise on Constitutional Law” (Thomson Reuters, fifth edition, 2013). He explains that it is a crime to delete even one email that has been subpoenaed. The fact that Hillary Clinton exclusively used a private server in
Ifrah Law – Nicole Kardell – Are you an American abroad living in perpetual fear of the IRS? Do you wake up every morning wondering if today you’ll receive a formidable notice that the taxman cometh? You are not alone. Expats around the world are facing (and fearing) the painful reality that the IRS’s global
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LawFuel.com -International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised HKBN Ltd. (HKBN) and CVC Capital Partners (CVC) on HKBN’s US$750m IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. HKBN is the parent company of Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited, the largest provider of residential fibre broadband services in Hong Kong by number of residential subscriptions. On
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The growth in cyber attacks upon companies, highlighted by the problems Sony Pictures recently experienced, has also heightened the need for more education about what companies need to do in order to keep themselves ‘cyberattack-safe’. Australian law firm Wootton & Kearney has indicated that 2015 could provide a boom year for hackers and those who
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” actor Nicholas Brendon is in trouble again having been arrested in Florida on charges of criminal mischief and property damage after attending an ALT*Con festival. Evidently Brendon was in a “state of confusion” and drunk. A hotel attendant reportedly noticed his dishevelled state, including toothpaste over his face, torn pants and
Snell & Wilmer – Jennifer R Phillips – Same-sex spousal rights, particularly in the area of employment law, are in a state of flux. This conundrum will hopefully be resolved later this year when the U.S. Supreme Court issues a ruling on a collection of four cases concerning the power of the states to ban
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Are law firms refusing or failing to learn the lessons from the slowdown – particularly litigation firms which appear to have largely overlooked the changing marketplace and expectations from clients? The litigation slowdown has once again raised the prospect of more layoffs and restructuring, something the law profession is hardly wanting to repeat. Yet a
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Like many publications involved in the legal media, the Lawyer in the UK has been asking why so few women make to senior roles? Specifically, The Lawyer asked, why do they not make senior management roles, noting that only eight women hold senior roles in the UK’s top 50 law firms. The whole gender issue
