Chicago, January 14, 2014 – The national law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that five attorneys and two paralegals from the intellectual property law firm Ryndak & Suri LLP have joined the firm’s Intellectual Property practice in Chicago. The attorneys that joined Hinshaw include Ryndak & Suri founder, James D. […]
SANTA ANA, California – A Santa Barbara physician was remanded into custody this morning after he pleaded guilty to 11 federal drug trafficking charges for writing prescriptions for powerful painkillers for “patients” who were drug addicts. [wp_ad_camp_1] Julio Gabriel Diaz, 65, who operated the Family Medical Clinic in Santa Barbara prior to his arrest two
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Suit Alleges Novartis Orchestrated a Kickback Scheme with Bioscrip, Inc., by Referring New Patients and Giving Rebates to BioScrip in Return for Bioscrip Increasing Refills of Exjade Prescriptions Through Biased Recommendations to Patients, Which Emphasized the Benefits of Refills While Understating Exjade’s Serious, Potentially Life-Threatening Side Effects BioScrip Agrees to Pay $15 Million
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Scoring a law job in a down market is a challenge. However there ARE ways. For instance, by picking a major early in the process. But there are others. Adam Gropper, the author of “Making Partner: The Essential Guide to Negotiating the Law School Path and Beyond”, a book that the ABA has used to
It’s same sex marriage of a slightly different kind – two more law firms looking to tie the knot with Boston-based Nixon Peabody looking at merging with Philadelphia-based Blank Rome. On Law.com figures the merger would create the 33rd largest firm in the US and continues the trend in recent years for major mergers among
Atlantic City lawyers Tracy and Mike Riley celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary eating Wawa sandwiches on the floor of their living room, surrounded by autopsy photos and grisly police reports. That’s nothing unusual for the lawyers, with both of them being highly regarded criminal and civil litigators who have, among the murders and mayhem that
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Erin Fuchs wrote this piece for Business Insider where she is Business Editor. This extract was taken from Slate.com. This article considers the ramifications relating to the legalization of marijuana smoking in Washington and Colorado and the effect on DUI laws. Come New Year’s Day, Colorado’s pot shops will start selling legal, recreational weed, but
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A Philadelphia jury this week handed down one of the biggest medical-malpractice verdicts in the state with a $42.9 million award to cover future medical expenses to a child born with cerebral palsy. Philly.com reports that the Common Pleas jury determined that the child, who is now 6, received “substandard medical treatment” at Chestnut Hill
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Class Action lawyers are not acting so effectively in their efforts to stand up for the little guy, according to a Mayer Brown study prepared for the Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform. The Wall Street Law Blog reports that the vast majority of class actions provide nothing for the plaintiffs. How could that
Gary Lee, chair of MoFo’s Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group, has been named an Outstanding Restructuring Lawyer for 2013 in the December issue of Turnarounds & Workouts. Only 12 lawyers nationwide received the honor. This is his second consecutive year on the list. [wp_ad_camp_1] The newsletter recognized Gary’s work as lead bankruptcy counsel to Residential
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