LOS ANGELES – A criminal complaint made public today charges a North Korean citizen for his involvement in a conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks around the world, which resulted in damage to massive amounts of computer hardware and extensive loss of data, money and other resources. The complaint alleges that Park Jin Hyok
(Denville, NJ – September 5, 2018) – Einhorn, Harris, Ascher, Barbarito and Frost PCis pleased to welcome former Morris County Assistant Prosecutor Brian D. Kenney to the firm as Counsel with the Criminal Law practice group where he will join partner Michael R. Ascher, a former New Jersey Deputy Attorney General and assistant County Prosecutor who has been practicing criminal
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Skadden represented Basler Kantonalbank (BKB) in reaching a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve a charge that it conspired to help U.S. taxpayer-clients evade their U.S. tax obligations, file false federal tax returns and otherwise hide hundreds of millions of dollars in offshore bank accounts.
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LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities this morning arrested a Los Angeles man on federal charges that allege he targeted seven women with online threats to publish nude photos unless the victims provided him with additional explicit pictures. Richard Gregory Bauer, 28, a former contractor at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, and who used several aliases
LOS ANGELES – A former public official in Los Angeles County’s Real Estate Division involved in awarding contracts to real estate developers and contractors has agreed to plead guilty to lying to FBI agents and subscribing to a false tax return in an effort to cover up his receipt of illegal bribes. In a plea
HOUSTON (September 4, 2018) –McKool Smith, one of the nation’s leading trial firms, has announced that trial lawyer Anthony J. (“Tony”) Phillips has joined the firm as a Principal in its Houston office. Tony focuses on complex commercial litigation, white collar defense, and compliance matters. Tony has served as the Senior Legal Officer for Corporate
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John Bowie The Law Society’s efforts to ensure workplace culture improves for lawyers has seen 15 of New Zealand’s largest law firms post their updates to the LawTalk showing how hard they have been working. Despite a 400 word limit, the firms took the opportunity to explain exactly why they were ‘making a difference’ –
In what appears to be a relatively crowded practice management marketplace in New Zealand, with some heavyweight incumbents in place, it may raise some eyebrows to have a brand new entrants arrive. And moreso given that the latest to enter the market was set up in its Irish birthplace to do something that may may
Washington Correspondent If ever the Trump administration and its lawyers could become more weird it might have been in the last couple of weeks. Apart from the Cohen plea, there has also been the exiting of White House Counsel Don McGahn and his potential replacement by King & Spalding litigator Bobby Burchfield, who has been
One of the most experienced mediators in the United States, Lee Jay Berman, has expressed his support for the establishment in New Zealand of a disaster mediation centre that can mediate issues following a disaster. Mr Berman spoke to LawFuel after the AMINZ conference in Wellington this weekend, explaining that the ability to deal with
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