Winning the megamillions or any other lottery is a breathtaking time of excitement for anyone. But there are traps. Here are four things you need to do to ensure you keep your “megamillions” or even far less in your lottery winnings. This is of particular importance right now with the winning $414 million Megamillions ticket
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Let us introduce you to barrister Amal Alamuddin. Who? you might ask. She is an Oxford-educated lawyer fluent in French and Arabic, of Lebanese descent and also a graduate of New York University School of Law, representing recently WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. She is also George Clooney’s girlfriend. The exotic beauty, 36, also has academic
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Object found by Australian searchers off the coast of West Australia may be from the missing Malaysian Flight MH370. The disappearance of the flight has held the world spellbound for the past week as the emerging news has come from Malaysia about the possibility that the airliner has been located. Meanwhile, the FBI is helping
US Attorney Preet Bharara’s public comments regarding the case of United States v. Toyota Motor Corporation and the largest-ever financial penalty imposed in the auto industry – a record-breaking $1.2 billion that goes far beyond the “paltry” penalties previously imposed. The announcement: Good morning and thank you, Attorney General Holder and Secretary Foxx. Today, one
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Working as a prostitute part-time has earned an Illinois lawyer a three-year suspension. The lawyer, Reema Bajaj, 27, had sex in exchange for office supplies for her law practice and later pleaded guilty to prostitution charges has agreed to have her law license suspended for three years. An Illinois attorney who allegedly worked as a
The inner sanctum of a law firm, a so called repository of the most confidential secrets, was among the victims in insider trading arrests on Wednesday of Wall Street insiders, including a law firm clerk in an unnamed prestigious Wall Street firm. The NY Times reports that two “insiders”, one bank broker and the clerk
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San Diego, CA – Former San Diego police detective Ernesto Encinas pled guilty today to charges that he conspired to commit campaign finance crimes in connection with a series of elections at the local and federal level. At the same hearing, Encinas also pled guilty to charges that he made false statements to the Internal
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The picture is of Edward Lee Elmore, who waited on death row for 29 years. He was released in 2002, but the average time taken on death row before inmates are usually executed is almost 15 years. Elmore was released in 2002 after his case was discredited because of bad or even planted evidence, an
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Washington, DC, 18 March 2014 – Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced that Matthew Rossi has joined the firm in Washington DC as a partner in its Securities Litigation & Enforcement group. Mr. Rossi joins from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Enforcement Division, where he served as Assistant Chief Litigation
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New York Times v. Sullivan is a case etched on the minds of media lawyers and journalists, quite apart from civil rights lawyers, throughout the United States and the world. And the celebrated and seminal Supreme Court case which tilted the balance of power in the delicate ecosystem that exists between journalists and political figures,
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