Foley Hoag – As part of our Year in Preview series, we’ve recently covered both international cyberwar and the rise of cryptocurrency. Just before the holidays, both of these topics collided in a decidedly unpleasant manner. On December 19, the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Youbit filed for bankruptcy, disclosing that it had just suffered a […]
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Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP – Joshua Rittenberg, Kevin Scanlan After lingering on the periphery of financial markets for the past several years, cryptocurrency has finally started to move into the mainstream. While the explosion in Bitcoin’s value dominated the news headlines, cryptocurrency in 2017 was filled with worthy topics of discussion. For the
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Altice Announces Group Reorganization Altice USA Spin-Off and New Altice Europe Structure · Separation of Altice USA from Altice NV to be effected by a spin-off of Altice NV’s 67.2% interest in Altice USA · Altice Europe to reorganize its structure: Altice France, Altice International and newly formed Altice Pay TV subsidiary · Altice founder
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David Brechter Remember Charles Harder? He was the lawyer who closed gossip blog Gawker on behalf of Trump-supporter and multi-billionaire Peter Thiel, and his client ‘Hulk Hogan’. You can read our earlier story about Mr Harder here. Now he’s reappeared as President Trump’s new lawyer in the attempts to shutter the ‘Fire & Fury’ book
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Using LinkedIn to grow your law practice is one of the most sure-fire things any small (or larger) firm can do to create new work. Following some simple steps for the massive social network can pay huge dividends for a few minutes a day. All of which is why we paid close attention to a
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JD Supra Perspective – Lance Goddard* I recently talked to John Chisolm, a former practicing lawyer and law firm CEO who works with firms around the globe to help them evolve from traditional billing – by the hour – to what has become known without irony as non-traditional: pricing services based on their value. This
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Statement from the President of the United States Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as
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Unanimous Manhattan Jury Finds That the Defendant Also Used His Position at Turkish Bank to Facilitate Access to the U.S. Financial System and to Conceal International Financial Transactions for Iranian Entities in Violation of U.S. Sanctions Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Dana J. Boente,
DLA Piper – Today’s means of communication is ever more dependent on social media. Whether you’re an individual, a onewoman shop, a fortune-500 company, or even the President of the United States, social media is the fastest and easiest way to be heard. But where does the line lie between legally sharing someone else’s material
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Skadden has been selected as one of six finalists in The American Lawyer’s biennial Litigation Department of the Year competition. We also were named Litigation Department of the Year in the Regulatory/White Collar breakout category.
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