The massive Bank of America settlement announced today is something of a drop in the ocean for the beleagored bank, which has lost more than $50 billion since the Charlotte bank bought Countrywide Financial for $2.5 billion, and more losses and legal fees are coming according to reports. The Bank of America’s slow fall to
Law firm scams – run by non-lawyer scam artists – are being set up to fleece “clients” using websites stolen from legitimate law firms. The picture above purports to be a London, UK law firm – Dovernor – but it is in fact an image taken from a legitimate US law firm using a picture
(August 18, 2014, San Francisco)—Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of Vanessa C. Gage as a partner in San Francisco, where she is a member of the firm-wide Financial Industry Group (FIG). Gage was formerly an attorney in Mayer Brown’s New York office, where she focused her practice on asset-based lending, securitization and
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The Rosenberg atomic spy trial happened a long time ago – over 60 years, in fact – but for a 98 year old retired teacher from New Jersey that hasn’t prevented her now taking legal action to have her conviction overturned. (Picture shows Julius (center) and Ethel Rosenberg, executed for espionage in 1953) Miriam Moskowitz
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August 18, 2014, Chicago – Reed Smith today announced the addition of two partners and a counsel to its Intellectual Property Practice in Chicago. Robert E. “Bob” Browne, John A. Cullis and Lawrence E. “Lee” James, Jr. were formerly partners at Neal Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago. Browne and Cullis will be partners at Reed Smith;
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New York—Dentons announced today the expansion of its global Aviation Finance practice and the creation of a Space Business sector team, enhancing its client service capabilities in the Aviation and Aerospace sector. Elizabeth (Liz) H. Evans, who joins the New York office as a partner, will serve as global co-chair of the Firm’s Aviation Finance
The largest class action lawsuit in Australian legal history has been lodged in a claim against the ANZ bank, Citibank and Westpac, with claims against NAB, American Express and Commonwealth Bank likely to follow shortly. The claims involve credit card late fees charged by the banks and amounting to millions of dollars. Law firm Maurice
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Rick Perry’s problems have lead to The Washington Post’s Sean Sullivan writing that he would make the same decisions all over again. Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) insisted Sunday that a grand jury indictment alleging he abused his office and tried to coerce an elected official was unjustified, pointing to support he has received from
There are plenty of problems that can arise during litigation, but whether lawyers handling a client to make an illegal sex video gave rise to an action against them would, some argued, lead to a permit for lawyers to “lie, cheat, steal, rape and kidnap”. Really? All that? It’s like ISIS at the bar. The
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SAN FRANCISCO – Morrison & Foerster once again has been recognized as one of the best U.S. law firms for women to work, in an annual survey conducted by Working Mother magazine in partnership with Flex-Time Lawyers LLC. This is the sixth year that MoFo has been named to the Best Law Firms for Women
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