HOUSTON – Two women from Midland, Texas, have reached a $2 million settlement over injuries sustained in a devastating car crash that happened earlier this year. On Feb. 29, 2012, Virginia Moore was driving on 42nd Street in Odessa, Texas, with Loraine Shamblin as a passenger. Ms. Moore was stopped at a red light when
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LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com – US Law News – Florian Wilhelm Jürgen Homm, a German hedge fund manager who was on the run for more than five years, has been arrested in Italy on federal fraud charges that accuse him of orchestrating a market manipulation scheme designed to artificially improve the performance of
LawFuel.com – Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that Lewis J. Greenwald, has joined the New York office as a partner in the Tax Transactions & Consulting practice. Mr. Greenwald focuses his practice on providing international tax planning for multinational clients. “Lewis has more than 25 years of experience in advising clients,
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Controversy over law schools’ over-selling of their courses, the down law jobs market and other issues have radically altered the way in which some law shcools are operating. Take Arizona State University as a case in point. The university is starting a non-profit law firm to use law students who will work with experienced attorneys
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LawFuel.com – Davis Polk advised Equinix, Inc. on its SEC-registered offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.875% senior notes due 2020 and $1 billion aggregate principal amount of its 5.375% senior notes due 2023. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
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LawFuel.com – Slaughter and May advised Manchester Airport Group (M.A.G) on the financing for its acquisition of Stansted Airport. As part of the acquisition, which completed on 28 February, Industry Funds Management (IFM) has taken a 35.5% interest in the enlarged group. The funds for the acquisition come from investment grade financing, consisting of a
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LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com – The Law Newswire – A member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang and longtime leader of the Puente-13 criminal street gang was sentenced today to life in federal prison after being convicted last year on federal racketeering charges that included a brutal stabbing designed to deter victims from cooperating
Page Brings Financial Institution and Real Estate Finance Experience (March 6, 2013, New York, NY) – Reed Smith LLP today announced that Jeffrey S. Page has joined the firm’s Financial Industry Group (FIG) in the New York office. Mr. Page was formerly a partner at Riemer & Braunstein LLP in New York. “Lending activity is
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NEW YORK, Mar 05, 2013 LawFuel.com — The Rosen Law Firm, P.A. is investigating the Board of Directors of AutoInfo Inc. /quotes/zigman/11136502/quotes/nls/auto AUTO +2.86% for possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of state law in connection with its sale of the Company to AutoInfo Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Comvest Investment Partners IV, L.P., one
The prospect of more law firms imploding is a scary one for both partners and law job seekers, but according to the law firm consultant Bruce MacEwen, who also blogs at AdamSmithEsq.com, there will be more implosions among the Big Law category firms: and some of the names will be brand name firms. MacEwen’s prediction
