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
Accidents between tractor trailers and passenger vehicles are on the rise and so are injuries and fatalities connected with these crashes. Since many businesses depend on trucking companies to deliver their merchandise to customers, truckers face deadlines for hauling cargo to specific destinations. While most truckers follow the rules of the road in the course
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So how come a legal chief sent his indians to the beach with a $2000 payment to spend it anywhere in the world? The surprise happened at the end of last month when Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan chief John Quinn sent an email (see below) and told them that February and March were miserable
Constitutional law expert and law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has written seven books on legal matters as well as more law review articles than he can probably remember. He has written in the ABA Journal suggesting that emerging technology has given the police an unprecedented chance to gather information about all of us. However there are
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LawFuel.com – Hong Kong-based dispute resolution and litigation specialist law firm Gall is pleased to announce the appointment of partner Jennifer Van Dale as head of its employment practice following her recent hire from Baker & McKenzie, where she headed the firm’s Hong Kong employment practice. Jennifer is widely regarded as one of Hong Kong
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The subject of books, movies, hatred, support and conspiracy theories, the convicted Australian drug dealer Schapelle Corby is now a free woman – more or less. After nine year in a Bali jail, Corby was released today after being granted parole on Friday and following a 20 year jail sentence handed down in 2005 for
Flappy Bird was pulled from the iTunes App Store and Google Play because of issues other than the law, according to its creator Dong Nguyen The difficult and massively popular game was the subject of some accusations that it copied other games and had legal issues, but that was denied by Nguyen, the Vietnamese creator
LOS ANGELES – Two Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies who were assigned to the Men’s Central Jail have been indicted on federal civil rights charges that accuse them of illegally using force against an inmate, and then attempting to cover up the incident with false reports that formed the basis of a false prosecution
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