WASHINGTON – A former university professor was sentenced today to five years in prison for traveling in foreign commerce to engage in sexual conduct with a minor, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. Walter Lee Williams, 66, of Palm Springs, California, was charged with engaging in
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LONDON, 15 December 2014—LawFuel.com – Ropes & Gray is advising Bain Capital Europe, LLP on the acquisition of CRH plc’s clay and concrete businesses in the UK and United States in a transaction valuing the businesses at £414 million. CRH, a FTSE 100 building products company, is selling clay companies lbstock and Glen Gery
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Stephen Fairley at the Rainmaker Institute is highly experienced when it comes to law firm marketing issues, specializing in lead conversion for law firms. He recently published an article on the “3 c0mmon denominators” for lawyers who succeed in building their law firms, published in the National Law Review. As he points out after working
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The Sydney hostage crisis has seen lawyers and courts evacuated in the King Street Courts in Sydney’s CBD, along with staff in the New South Wales Crown Solicitors’ office. The siege and hostage-holding by at least one and probably at least two gunmen has seen the CBD area around the cafe occupied by the gunmen
The Firm is evaluating Byetta lawsuits and other product liability claims on behalf of individuals who allegedly developed pancreatic cancer, pancreatitis or thyroid cancer caused by incretin mimetic diabetes medications. >> See video about Diabetes Destroyed Here – See Video A status conference in the federal litigation that includes numerous Byetta lawsuits (http://www.byettalawsuit2013.com/), as well
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Restore My Hearing is a hearing restoration report produced by an aeronautics engineer who has established a legal defense fund to protect his inexpensive hearing loss product from being shuttered by lawyers. The hearing loss industry in the United States is a massive, multi-billion dollar business and the new product from Ben Carter, the man
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Bill Cosby is counter-suing Judy Huth, the woman who alleges the comedian molested her at the Playboy Mansion around 1974, after Huth’s lawyer removed Cosby’s name and replaced it with the requisite “John Doe” nomenclature. However Cosby’s lawyer, Marty Singer has filed papers alleging that the claims of sexual molestation by Huth are “absolutely false,”
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that CHARLES A. BENNETT was arrested this morning on securities and wire fraud charges stemming from his scheme to defraud over
Innovation in the law firm business is a growing trend as profits are trimmed with increased competition and the market for law services has slumped in many areas. And so firms look increasingly to ways they can increase their innovation to drive profitability and service levels. For small Canadian law firm Conduit Law their efforts
By Sonia Girgis and Trevor James Morrison & Foerster – On 4 December, George Osborne in his Autumn Statement, announced a new UK withholding tax exemption for interest payments on UK private placements. The announcement was followed by draft legislative clauses with the Finance Bill 2015, released yesterday. The new exemption will mean that UK corporate borrowers
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