TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Attorney General Pam Bondi today thanked the members of the Florida House for their unanimous passage of HB 7059. The bill enhances Florida’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act and allows the Department of Legal Affairs to seek restitution for those victims who are harmed by a violation of the act. The
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Jason E. Reisman has joined the Firm as a Partner in the Labor and Employment group in the Philadelphia office. Mr. Reisman dedicates his practice to the representation of management in all aspects of labor relations and employment law, with a particular emphasis on wage and
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Sedgwick LLP, the international Big Law firm, has lost dozens of attorneys last year, including 12 percent of its partners. Law360 reports the departures streaming from the firm, which his shifting its practice away from areas like intellectual property law and real estate to focus on what the firm says are its core areas of
Timothy McVeigh’s Lawyer Reps Oklahoma’s Racist Chanters The lawyer who rerpresented Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh is representing the Oklahoma University chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, which was shut down and had some members expelled following revelations they led a racist chant that celebrated lynching. High profile lawyer, has
The Los Angeles-based IP specialists Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s recent seminar on virtual currencies indicated the digital currency is here to stay, although bitcoins may not be the cryptocurrency de jour. Gibson Dunn partner Judith Alison Lee, based in the firm’s DC office said digital currency would remain a recurring trend. Lee is also the
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Slaughter and May – The new Companies Ordinance was passed by the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on 12 July 2012 and will come into force on 3 March 2014. This tool kit of publications will guide you through the key areas of change. Directors’ Duties of Care, Skill & Diligence SUMMARY OF CHANGES at
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Gaston Kroub is a founding partner of Kroub, Silbersher & Kolmykov PLLC, an intellectual property litigation boutique. You can reach him at gkroub@kskiplaw.com. This column appeared in AbovetheLaw. Anyone reading this knows that law is a competitive industry. And it’s very hard to take business from an incumbent law firm, especially when law firms have
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
