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Lowenstein Sandler Announce New Chief Operating Officer

New York, NY – (January 16, 2018) – Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced today that Joseph J. Palermo has joined the firm as Chief Operating Officer. Palermo will work closely with firm leadership to provide executive oversight of the firm’s day-to-day operations and input on the firm’s business strategy, with a focus on organizational processes and professional business support

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Phony Email Scam Sees Nigerian Extradicted From South Africa

Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that ONYEKACHI EMMANUEL OPARA was extradited from South Africa. In December 2016, OPARA was arrested in South Africa on

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2018 ASIL Annual Meeting – ‘International Law in Practice

20 2018 ASIL Annual Meeting – “International Law in Practice” April 4 – April 7, 2018 Washington, DC The 112th ASIL Annual Meeting will consider how and by whom international law is made, shaped, and carried out; and how international legal practice has changed and is continuing to change in response to geopolitical shifts and contemporary challenges.

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3 Simple and Practical Ways to Improve Law Firm Culture

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Heather McCullough* What a law firm looks like today is dramatically different than what it looked like 50 years ago. Law firms benefitted from client expansion and demand for legal services, and grew exponentially. The sheer size of law firms today necessitates doing things differently than they have traditionally been done. Partners don’t work down

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Man Used Computer Skills To Gain Access to Student Emails Looking for Compromising Videos and Photos – Received 6 Months Jail

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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JONATHAN POWELL was sentenced yesterday to six months in prison for computer fraud in connection with his scheme to obtain unauthorized access to more than 1,000 email accounts maintained by a New York City-area university in order to download

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Lawdragon Names Cravath Partner Mark Greene to 2017 List of Legends

Cravath partner Mark I. Greene was named to Lawdragon’s 2017 list of “Legends,” which recognized those lawyers who have been featured among Lawdragon’s list of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” for 10 consecutive years. Lawdragon described those on the short list as “the very best of the profession,” and noted Mark as “one of

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NZ Law News – Bell Gully leads in M&A league tables for 2017

Bell Gully has retained its market-leading position as a legal adviser for mergers and acquisitions, according to two major international league tables released in January. Annual reviews from Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters ranked Bell Gully within the top 20 firms in Australasia in three out of four measures of merger and acquisition activity in 2017.

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10 Themes for 2018

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Skadden Arps –  Tax reform, shifting international dynamics, Trump administration goals and a potentially strong market for transactions all seem likely to impact business activity in 2018. Below are 10 areas to explore in our 10th annual Insights publication. 1. Tax Reform Takes Center Stage The most comprehensive tax reform in the United States since 1986 made

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