LOS ANGELES – Federal tax authorities this morning arrested an attorney on bank fraud charges for allegedly depositing a stolen U.S. Treasury check for just over $1 million. Thaddeus Julian Culpepper, 44, of South Los Angeles, was arrested this morning at his residence without incident by special agents with the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
Baker & McKenzie – With tax disputes rising exponentially across the globe, the risk to multinational corporations is greater than ever. New research from Baker McKenzie reveals that among the Fortune 500, as much as USD 75.3 billion is currently under dispute – a figure so large it threatens to wipe out more than half
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SANTA ANA, California – A Chinese national who pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme that illegally exported sensitive space communications technology to China was sentenced today to serve 46 months in federal prison. Si Chen, 33, a Pomona resident who has been in custody since her arrest in May 2017, was sentenced by United
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Kensington Swan is delighted to welcome James Warren to the firm. James joins our national employment team based in Auckland, and will play an integral role in leading its employment law practice. James has 20 years’ experience in employment law across both New Zealand and the UK. He has returned to New Zealand and joins
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The use of social media – or its misuse – is something affecting every business and profession – not the least being barristers with the President of the New South Wales Bar Association issuing an edict on the matter following recent, unspecified incidents. Arthur Moses SC (right) referred to a number of recent incidents that had
From a special LawFuel contributor, a senior female lawyer. What is it about people with initials and delusions of grandeur. Some were blessed with grandeur – think of the presidential offenders, JFK WJC or OBJ, before we even get to Trump and those with TWO initials (did I mention OJ?). But others were lesser mortals
As the US is glued to television screens in respect of the sort of event hat might ordinarily pass as nothing more than a sub-head on the pages of most metropolitan papers, the dramatic scenes from Washington’s Senate hearings hold the nation spellbound. Brett Kavanaugh told the Senate that he was the victim of an
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With the term of Chief Justice Sian Elias coming to an end in early 2019, the process for replacing her will now be well underway by Attorney-General David Parker (above). And with it, there has been observed a few instances of political jockeying by those who are quite clearly vying for the job. A legal
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Legal Department Operations (LDOs) are now front and center of internal legal departments − as a decade of results show in a newly released survey sponsored by Baker McKenzie. Ten years ago, only 8% of Legal Ops directed or managed the selection of outside counsel for particular matters, and only 16% did so for panels. Today, those numbers
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Ballard Spahr – This week Danske Bank released a report detailing the results of its much anticipated internal investigation into allegations of money laundering perpetrated in its Estonian branch. The results of the investigation dwarfed even the boldest predictions. The report found between 2007 and 2015 the Estonian branch processed a staggering 200 billion Euros, or $234
