Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that NICHOLAS MITSAKOS was sentenced today to 30 months in prison on charges of conspiring to commit securities fraud and wire fraud in connection with his operation of a purported hedge fund called Matrix Capital. MITSAKOS pled guilty on
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Appleby, the ‘Paradise Papers’ law firm behind the latest tax papers hack involving 13.4 million papers, is an amount calculated to be around $US10 trillion. Among those whose financial affairs are mentioned in the hack are politicians, celebrities like Bono (left), business leaders and include Queen Elizabeth, the President of Columbia Juan Manuel Santos; and the U.S.
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Special Correspondent Lawyer Bridget Morton, the woman at the centre of the All Black Aaron Smith ‘toilet sex scandal’ is less than happy with the ‘formal warning’ given to Smith and wanted him to tell the truth, being less than happy with the way the rugby fraternity and media have treated her. Even her mum
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It’s a new look for Supreme Court Judges on ceremonial occasions, with a distinctive kiwi twist that will make the new robes more ‘reflective’ of New Zealand traditions and history, says the Judicial Office for Senior Courts (in what must be one of the first we’ve heard from them in many a year) e one of
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A row between Feltex funder Tony Gavigan and barrister John Eichelbaum, son of former Chief Justice Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, has been revealed in a Court of Appeal recent Court of Appeal ruling. Tony Gavigan drove the litigation against the Feltex directors, on behalf of 3639 investors in the name of Eric Houghton and seeking $185
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A UK study has found that one-third of law students regret taking their degree and even more found that the degree was not value for money. The Student Academic Experience Survey had asked over 14,000 undergraduate students in the UK : ‘If you knew what you know now, would you have chosen another course?’, resulting in
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The development of artificial intelligence applications in the law field is not all about robot lawyers and applications that replicate legal roles. One of those sitting at the forefront of AI developments in modern law practices has been speech recognition (SR) software applications, which is a field that has become more crowded since Google
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John Bowie* – For a man who has contempt in equal part for big-business and the big-firm legal fraternity which supports it, Winston Peters has a funny way of showing it. Announcing his decision to enter into coalition with Labour and consequently change the government, Mr Peters railed against capitalism. Winston’s view is that too
Geoffrey Schuler, CPA Finding reliable, real-time news sources and creating good habits to constantly monitor these outlets can be overwhelming for many young professionals. It took me a long time to identify my list of favored resources (tailored to the legal industry) and means to access this list in real time. This blog is aimed
The growth in technology for the legal sector has been the subject of high interest, but it’s nice to see the tech trend at the human level too. Boston’s WBUR.org for instance took a look at how artificial intelligence is rewiring the lawyers, speaking with Ropes & Gray’s Shannon Capone Kirk (left) who runs the
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