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MLSC Selects Andrew Jay Graham for 2018 Arthur W. Machen, Jr. Award

Press Releases / October 17, 2018

Kramon & Graham co-founder recognized for expanding access to justice for low-income Marylanders Baltimore, MD (October 17, 2018) — Andrew Jay Graham, co-founder of the law firm Kramon & Graham, P.A., has been selected for the Maryland Legal Services Corporation’s 2018 Arthur W. Machen, Jr. Award. The award recognizes Mr. Graham’s extraordinary efforts to improve the access

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High Work Demands Lead to Health & Safety Notice To Australian Law Giant

Australia Law News, Featured / October 17, 2018

Law firm King & Wood Mallesons has achieved a ‘first’ – the first Australian law firm receiving a notice from the occupational health and safety regulator, WorkSafe Victoria for improving working conditions for its lawyers following increased workloads resulting from the Australian inquiry into the financial sector. The high volume of work has led junior

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FORMER ENERGY COMPANY EXECUTIVE SENTENCED IN CONNECTION WITH THE BRIBERY SCHEME OF FORMER EXECUTIVE DEPUTY SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK

Press Releases / October 17, 2018

Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that PETER GALBRAITH KELLY JR., a former executive at Competitive Power Ventures (“CPV”), was sentenced to 14 months in prison for defrauding CPV by misrepresenting that the former Executive Deputy Secretary to the Governor, Joseph Percoco, had obtained state ethics

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The Fond Farewell To The Irrepressible Law Dean

LawStars, New Zealand Law News / October 16, 2018

It was a day that was inevitable . . but also unequalled in its expressions of love and support for the much loved Otago Law School Dean Dr Mark Henaghan, who retired this week after more than 40 years’ at his beloved law school. And appropriately, it was a Family Law lecture and Laws 101

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Former Buena Park Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Failing to Report his Dental Lab Income to the Internal Revenue Service

Press Releases / October 16, 2018

SANTA ANA, California – A former Buena Park resident who failed to report over $1.3 million in gross receipts and sales on his corporate income tax returns over a two year period pleaded guilty this morning to a federal tax fraud charge. Suk Chang Song, 49, owner and operator of Toothware, Inc. in Garden Grove,

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6 Arrested For Helping Illegal Brothels in NYC

Press Releases / October 15, 2018

Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-In-Charge for the New York Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), and Timothy W. Dumas, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (“DSS”) of the

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Why “Random Smoothies” Make This Law Firm a Great Place to Work

Big Law / October 15, 2018

Choosing a great law firm to work for involves a variety of considerations: culture, pay, work-life balance – all the usual. But smoothies? Really? For Sacramento firm Downey Brand, a firm with over 150 employees, the firm’s managing partner Scott Shapiro said “random smoothies” were one of the main reasons the firm won the Best

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Women in Law: What We’re Doing in Law Firms is Not Working

Briefings, Briefings, Law Firm Management, Law Firms / October 15, 2018

This article is part of a new book from ARC Group and written by former law partner Patricia Gillette as part of the book “Beyond Bias: Unleashing the Potential of Women in Law.” Patricia Gillette – Whatever we are doing in law firms to increase gender diversity in positions of economic and institutional power is

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Coffee & Cancer Warning Trial Halted in Appellate Court

Press Releases, US Law / October 15, 2018

Morrison & Foerster – Today, California’s Second Appellate District Court stayed the trial that was set to begin on Monday, October 15, 2018, in Los Angeles Superior Court, regarding whether cancer warnings are required for sales of coffee in California. The trial in Council for Education and Research on Toxics v. Starbucks Corporation et al. (Los Angeles

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Slaughter and May is advising Ensco plc on its proposed $12 billion combination with Rowan Companies plc

Press Releases / October 15, 2018

Slaughter and May is advising Ensco plc (“Ensco”) on its proposed combination with Rowan Companies plc (“Rowan”). Ensco and Rowan have jointly announced their entry into a definitive agreement under which Ensco will acquire Rowan in an all-stock transaction to be effected by way of a UK court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement. The transaction will create

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