Paulette Brown, the chief diversity officer at law firm Edwards Wildman and a labor lawyer is moving closer towards becoming the next president of the American Bar Association, following her formal nomination as president-elect. She is already the first colored woman to be nominated to that position. In a press release from her firm, […]
RIVERSIDE, California – A former Guatemalan Special Forces officer was sentenced today to serve 10 years in federal prison for covering up his involvement in the 1982 massacre of nearly everyone in the village of Dos Erres, Guatemala. Jorge Sosa, 55, of Moreno Valley, received the statutory maximum sentence of 120 months in prison
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New York police unions are going to court to decide whether changeds to the stop-and-frisk program are properly made, having filed papers in the Federal Appeals court. The unions claim the judge who ruled the stop-and-frisk practise was discriminatory insulted officers and they want the courts to examine the issue. New York City judge Shira
LawFuel.com – Schulte Roth & Zabel (“SRZ”), a leading provider of legal services to the global financial services industry, is pleased to announce its new London location. Since opening its doors in London in September 2002, the firm has gained an impressive share of the European legal market in investment management and has recently expanded
So who has the best in-house law department in NYC? The New York Law Journal has announced the winning inhouse departments for 2014 with a swanky dinner planned for March 10. The “Outstanding Legal Department” winner, coming in with 160 attorneys, is . . . drums are rolling . . . AIG! Outstanding Legal Department
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LOS ANGELES – A former teacher at Arrowview Middle School in San Bernardino was sentenced this morning to 120 months in federal prison for attempting to entice a 13-year old girl in New Jersey to engage in sexual activity. Eugene Ballantyne, 30, of Running Springs, California, pleaded guilty in July 2012 to one
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TORONTO (February 10, 2014) – Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), one of Canada’s leading business law firms, was honoured with four awards at the second annual nationwide Benchmark Canada Awards ceremony held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Toronto late last week. Blakes won Securities Litigation Firm of the Year, Insolvency Firm
LOS ANGELES – A Thousand Oaks man was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison for his participation in an investment scheme that collected, in total, over $14 million from dozens of investors around the country and caused over $10 million in losses for those investors. Nicholaus Skultety, 30, who was the
INDIANAPOLIS — A professor who teaches in the schools of law and medicine at Case Western Reserve University is the recipient of this year’s McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Award. The award and its concurrent lectureship honor individuals who have demonstrated excellence in fields of common interest to the legal and medical professions. It is sponsored by the William
A change of mayor in New York has started a rush for law firms to secure the legal talent that went with Michael Bloomberg’s NYC administration. And one lawyer who secured a top spot on Wall Street was David Karnovsky, general counsel of New York City’s Department of City Planning for the past 15 years
