March 11, 2014, Washington, D.C. – Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of Divonne Smoyer as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office, where she will be a member of the firmwide Global Regulatory Enforcement Group. She was formerly a partner in the State Attorneys General Practice at Dickstein Shapiro LLP in the
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New York, March 10, 2014 – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Johnson & Johnson in a definitive agreement by J&J subsidiary McNEIL-PPC, Inc. to sell the global rights to the K-Y brand, a leader in intimate lubricants, to Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC (“RB”). The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals and
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Davis Polk Financial Institutions Group associate Reuben Grinberg was recently interviewed on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.” In “Bitcoin Needs Regulations to Succeed,” Grinberg discusses the evolution of Bitcoin and whether it is here to stay. See the link here (text below) Read Grinberg’s latest Bitcoin post on Davis Polk’s Capital and Prudential Standards Blog:
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Former lawyer Andi Dorfman is the new Bachelorette (do you care?), and unlike the controversial and frequently disliked Juan Pablo, described as “the worst bachelor ever” she is ready for a proposal evidently in a new season of the find-a-soulmate show. Dorfman, 26, the former assistant district attorney from Atlanta, emerged in a tiny, tight
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Mythili Raman, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, announced today the guilty plea of FREDERIC CILINS, a French citizen, for obstructing a federal criminal investigation into allegations of bribes paid to secure certain valuable mining rights in the
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Los Angeles – LawFuel.com – Making his initial appearance in federal court this afternoon, the owner and operator of Anthony Gray Tax Service (“AGTS”), a tax preparation business located in Compton, was arraigned today in a federal tax fraud case. In conjunction with the arraignment today, Anthony Gray, 36, has agreed to plead guilty to
Oscar Pistorius vomited and sobbed as he heard graphic evidence about the injuries caused by his shooting of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The trial of the olympian continues in South Africa with Pistorious accused of the murder of his girlfriend. He was listening to evidence from pathologist Professor Gert Saayman, who explained that Steenkamp had been
We’ve all heard the one about the lady that sued McDonald’s after spilling hot coffee all over herself back in 1992. But hers is far from the most ridiculous case brought to court over the past few decades. Stella Liebeck’s coffee case was, in fact, much more serious than the public gave her credit for.
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LawFuel.com – Gainey McKenna & Egleston announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on behalf of all persons who purchased or otherwise acquired the securities of Walter Investment Management Corp. (“Walter Investment” or the “Company”) (NYSE:WAC) during the period between May
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It had to happen. With the increased commercial use of drones the lawyers are sitting up and wondering what the noise above is all about. Drones are being used increasingly for everything from surveying crops to photographing houses for estate agents – quite apart from efforts to destroy terrorists in the remotest parts of the
