LawFuel.com – Best Law Newswire – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EVERETTE L. SCOTT, JR., a New Jersey attorney, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 30 months in prison for engaging in securities and wire fraud in connection with two separate schemes. In
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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Elaine C. Greenberg, the inaugural Chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Municipal Securities and Public Pensions Enforcement Unit and former Associate Director of the Division of Enforcement at the SEC, has joined the firm as a partner, resident in Washington, D.C. During her 25-year tenure
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Law firm blogs are an increasingly important marketing tool, but one, simple thing can trip up a successful blog – who authors it. In a post from Real Lawyers Have Blogs, Kevin O’Keefe looks at the issue, which is reported in the LawFuel blog post here. He provided seven good reasons why the individuals should
Geoffrey Lean is Britain’s longest-serving environmental correspondent, having pioneered reporting on the subject almost 40 years ago and wrote this column for The Telegraph You’ve got to hand it to the climate sceptics. Over the last years they seem to have been winning the battle for public opinion. A new survey shows that the proportion
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Lawyer and politician Jim Palmer used to work at Texaco, until he became bored and heard about an opening with lawyers Burnet Duckworth. The move was highly successful, as was the firm. The firm survived and grew into one of the main homegrown legal players in Calgary. When Mr. Campbell joined in 1973, it had 12
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In 1994 a lawsuit filed by a 79-year-old woman who was severely burned by a hot cup of McDonald’s coffee became a turning point for tort reform. The case, Stella Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants, et al. a jury in New Mexico awarded Stella Liebeck $2.9 million in damages, but the judge reduced the award to $640,000,
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LawFuel.com – The Detroit bankruptcy disaster might herald massive legal fees but it would be better served in a deal between the beleaguered city’s creditors, according to Eastern Michigan chief federal judge Gerald Rosen. The judge opened the first formal round of mediation by giving a pep talk and introducing other experts who will work
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Reuters report that the Iranian lawyer and humans rights activist who had been imprisoned has been freed. Nasrin Sotoudeh had been serving a six-year sentence after being arrested in September 2010 and convicted of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security. Her husband Reza Khandan told Reuters Sotoudeh was dropped off at their home
The online reviews for law firms have been of growing importance, but so too is the credibility of those websites who carry them. Now Yelp have gotten tough with businesses posting fake reviews and is suing a small San Diego bankruptcy law firm alleging that it had false reviews on its site. The suit, filed
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Profiles in Diversity Journal has recognized firmwide managing partner Anna Erickson White in its 12th Annual Women Worth Watching issue. Ms. White joins approximately 200 other women leaders from the United States and Canada who have distinguished themselves in their careers, including women executives from AT&T, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, FedEx, GE Capital, JPMorgan Chase, Novartis
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