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Mayer Brown adds to leveraged finance team with appointment of Stuart Brinkworth  

London, 18 June 2018 – Stuart Brinkworth has today joined Mayer Brown as a partner in the Banking & Finance practice in London. He will head the European Leveraged Finance team. Stuart, a leveraged finance lawyer with considerable cross-border experience, was formerly the London head of finance at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. Stuart acts for […]

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Legal Partner At Einhorn Harris Receives Honor of Servant Leader Award For Service to Homeless and Hungry

–Nearly $115,000 Raised to Support Paterson-Based Community Organization – (Denville, NJ – June 18, 2018) – Patricia Barbarito, Managing Partner of Einhorn, Harris, Ascher, Barbarito and Frost PC, was honored on May 31 with a “Servant Leader Award”at the “Lawyers and Accountants Dinner” presented by Eva’s Village, the Paterson, NJ-based provider of programs and services for people who are struggling with

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U.S. Supreme Court Further Limits Tolling in the Class Action Context in China Agritech v. Resh

Davis Polk –  The Supreme Court Holds that American Pipe Tolling Does Not Apply to Subsequent Class Actions; Clarifies that Five-Year Period for Section 10(b) Claims Is a Statute of Repose On June 11, 2018, the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in China Agritech v. Resh, 1 holding that the American Pipe

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US Seek Extradition of Silk Road Criminal Network Associate of Ross Ulbricht

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Roger Thomas Clark Was a Key Figure in the Development of Silk Road and Advised Ross Ulbricht on All Aspects of the Criminal Enterprise Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James D. Robnett, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue

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Hogan Lovells achieves WILEF Gold Standard recognition for sixth consecutive year

Washington, D.C., 15 June 2018 – Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the 2018 Gold Standard Certification by the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF). This marks the sixth consecutive year Hogan Lovells has achieved this recognition. The firm has been recognized in all but the first year of the

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How Lawyers Can Avoid Pitfalls and Traps When Using Social Media

Payne & Fears Social media is a great tool for lawyers and others to market themselves – but there are also traps. Nevada-based law firm Payne & Fears recently published an article outlining the ethical pitfalls that attorneys face when they enter the realm of social media, as well as offering some key tips to avoid the

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Drugs and Money Laundering Syndicate Member Sees Italians Charged in New York

Crimes Involved Laundering of Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Narcotics Proceeds Using a Variety of Methods, Through the United States, Italy, Hong Kong, and Mexico, As Well As Trafficking Hundreds of Kilograms of Cocaine and Heroin Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and David J. Downing,

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When Harassment Allegations Go Wrong . . The Tale of a Legal Secretary’s Bad Work Experience

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A harassment claim brought by a legal secretary of a Sydney law firm who alleged she had been called a “chook” and “thick” among other things, has been dismissed by the Australian Fair Works Tribunal  in what the Deputy President of the Tribunal said was a case where the applicant was foolish and been

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