There’s everyone from OJ Simpson’s lawyer Robert Shapiro to General Mills’ General Counsel Roderick Palmore pushing for diversity within the legal profession, from Kamala Harris, California’s attorney general and Wilmer Cutler’s William Lee who won a record $1.05 billion judgment for Apple Inc. It’s the National Law Journal’s 100 most influencing lawyers in America and, […]
TOKYO, MARCH 25, 2013 – LawFuel.com – Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that David E. Case has joined the firm as a partner in its Intellectual Property Group based in the firm’s Tokyo office. Mr. Case is a leading intellectual property litigator in Tokyo. Formerly the head of White & Case’s Japan and
Bird & Bird has entered into a cooperation agreement with Sydney based law firm Truman Hoyle. Bird & Bird and Truman Hoyle share strengths in key sectors including technology, telecommunications and media. Both firms offer transactional and contentious capabilities in corporate and commercial, competition and regulatory; dispute resolution and IP; infrastructure and employment. Bird &
Another City firm is about to be born with the potential merger of Speechly Bircham & Withers in a firm that would create a City-based firm of around 500 lawyers and 11 global offices. The combined firm would create an opportunity for the corporate and property base of Speechlys to combine with the international
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that William Scherman has joined the firm as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office. Scherman, who was previously a partner with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and a former general counsel of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), will continue his energy litigation and
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LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com – US Law News – A former investment fund manager and radio personality who admitted bilking investors out of millions of dollars by falsely promising to purchase corporate bonds backed by the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was sentenced this afternoon to 120 months in federal prison. John
LawFuel.com – UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM LANDBERG, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of West End Financial Advisors, LLC (“West End”), was sentenced today to 42 months in prison in connection with an
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Lawfuel.com – Global Law News Service – Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced that the firm’s Tax Transactions & Consulting practice was ranked as a tier one tax transactional firm in North America and tier two in France in International Tax Review’s (ITR) 2013 “World’s Leading Transactional Firms Survey,” a comprehensive guide to
LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TAI NGUYEN was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to commit securities fraud and wire fraud in connection with an insider trading scheme in which NGUYEN, the president
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LawFuel.com – UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the appointment of Michael A. Levy as Chief of the Appeals Unit. Mr. Levy will replace Katherine P. Failla, who was recently confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve
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