With Recent Pleas, 53 Linked to Massive Scheme have been Convicted SANTA ANA, California – A licensed tax return preparer has pleaded guilty to filing more than $41 million worth of false claims against the United States, making her the 53rd and final defendant linked to the quarter billion dollar “Old Quest” tax
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A Tinder date was never like this. Co-founder of the dating site, Whitney Wolfe, has settled a sexual harassment suit filed last June where she claimed that co-founders Justin Mateen and Sean Rad subjected her to a “barrage of horrendously sexist, racist, and otherwise inappropriate comments, emails and text messages.” Mateen was subsequently suspended from
Patrick Lamb is a founding member of Valorem Law Group, a litigation firm representing business interests. Valorem helps clients solve their business disputes and cope with pressures to reduce legal spend using nontraditional approaches, including use of nonhourly fee structures, coordination with LPOs or contract lawyers, joint-venturing with other firms and implementation of project management
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September 8, 2014 (New York, NY) – The law firm of Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP is pleased to announce that Robert Underhill has joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s Insurance and Reinsurance sector in New York City. As a member of the firm’s Insurance Regulatory & Transactional practice group, he will focus
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Slater & Gordon – The Claimant’s claim against the Defendant arose out of an operation for degenerative lumbar spine disease on 17th February 2010. The Claimant sustained a blunt injury to his left L5 and S1 nerve roots in the course of the operation on 17th February 2010. As a result of this injury to
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Tennis ace Martina Navratilova scored a win with Squire Patton Bogg’s Birmingham office when she appeared at a client breakfast to discuss diversity issues. The firm has adopted a diversity initiative following the recent ‘Aspire to Inspire’ discussion discussing women role models in the law Chaired by Monique Sutherland, partner and UK Diversity Chair at
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The hacking of Jennifer Lawrence nude pictures along with other celebrities is one thing, but revenge porn, where disgruntled partners and others publish nude pictures of others is a growing problem. Charlotte Laws, however, is taking the battle right back to the perpetrators. Charlotte Laws helped draft California’s anti revenge porn bill, even though many
Using humor to teach law is something prescribed as one of the best forms of medicine by a law professor who believes using the “pedagogical power of laughter” can be a hugely underestimated tool when it comes to teaching. Professor Reed, a clinical law professor at Northwestern University Law School believes humor, properly used, can
Outsourcing legal work – or any work – is something law firms are doing with increasing frequency. The biggest firms – think Clifford Chance in India – are doing it and now Jacoby & Meyers are facing a lawsuit over billing work handled by “support companies” owned by some of the current or former partners
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Getting free publicity is always good – so long as the publicity is good. At least that’s the way it should be for law firms because bad publicity for a law firm is not, as the adage goes, “good publicity”. But getting positive publicity is something that can achieve wonders for your business and a
