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 […]
It was always coming – the day when women outnumbered men in the New Zealand legal profession. And now it has arrived, with the NZ Law Society announcing that of the 13,103 lawyers practising, 6553 are women. Women admitted to the bar have exceeded men since the early 1990s, but the gap has now closed.
Fired Dentons Associate Michael Potere’s interesting career took another turn this week with his sentencing on charges of attempting to extort his former employer under threat of releasing highly sensitive information he had downloaded from the email account of the firm’s LA managing director’s account. Not the best of plans, you may think and both
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MARCUS STROUD, 20, was sentenced to 13 years in prison by United States District Judge Cathy Seibel for his receipt of files containing sexually explicit images of a minor. The sentencing today followed STROUD’s guilty plea on June
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David Weston What sort of law firm would best suit millenials and what changes are the ‘Me To’ generation bringing to the way law firms operate? The question was recently posed to the managing principal of a mid-sized law firm, Porzio, Bromberg & Newman. Vito Gagliardi made the observation to the New Jersey Law Journal
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January 22, 2018 – DLA Piper announced today that Amy Rubenstein and John Scholnick have joined the firm’s Litigation practice as partners in the Chicago office. Rubenstein represents clients as their chief strategist and trial lawyer in a broad array of industries, including chemicals, professional services, insurance, manufacturing, and food and beverage. She has developed
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LeClair Ryan – The new year is a good time to look ahead at what trends we may expect to see in the area of estate litigation in 2018. I have 4 predictions. #1: The Volume Of Estate Litigation Will Continue To Increase We are very likely to see an increase in the volume of
What do lawyers do when they retire? Golf? Directorships? Reading and/or writing? What about starting a racy lingerie business. When London lawyers Ian Ashman, 50 and wife (and lawyer) Vicki retired from their firm Walkers International in 2013 they did have plans other than opening a lingerie business – like learning French and playing golf,
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The pregnancy of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has lead to Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters accepting the baubles of Ms Ardern’s office for at least six weeks while she takes leave to have her baby in June. Ironically perhaps, Ms Arderns’ pregnancy was found out during the coalition talks where Mr Peters was centre state
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New York, NY – (January 18, 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 to provide input on the firm’s business strategy, with a focus on organizational
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