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What Are the Settlement Prospects for Cuban-Expropriated US Assets?

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer – On December 17, 2014, President Obama announced sweeping policy changes that will influence investment and commercial relations with Cuba. The announced changes may also impact US nationals and corporations whose assets were nationalized by the Cuban government prior to the US embargo. This briefing focuses on the likely future of those

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The Petrobras Embarrassment – And the Lawyers Loving It

The lawyers are circling Petrobras, the Brazilian oil giant that has become the nation’s major embarrassment – plus a major opportunity for lawyers everywhere to sue the company as it becomes encircled by lawsuits. Forbes contributor Kenneth Rapoza looks at the whole, messy business. If the Petrobras story sweeping Brazil today was a sporting event, it would

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Israeli Bank Leumi Admits Helping US Taxayers to Hide Assets Offshore

  Israeli Bank Discloses more than 1,500 U.S. Account Holders and Enters into Deferred Prosecution Agreement with Justice Department   LOS ANGELES– LawFuel.com – A major Israeli international bank admitted that it conspired to aid and assist U.S. taxpayers to prepare and present false tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by hiding income

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Obsession Phrases and Dating: The George Clooney & Amal Alamuddin Dates

Obsession Phrases – Was it one of these that lawyer Amal Alamuddin used to snare George Clooney?  The rumors of just how the bright barrister managed to wed one of the world’s most desirable men has had people wondering – was it one of the internet’s “obsessive phrases” techniques, some relationship secret?  What? The wedding

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Getting Away from the $1000-an-Hour Lawyer Syndrome

Alternative fee arrangements are increasingly capturing the attention of innovative law firms, as well as fee-sensitive clients. So when  a lawyer like Omaha labor lawyer Ross Gardner went to Orlando to speak at the human resources conference held by one of his firm’s biggest clients, it was a trip the Jackson Lewis lawyer may not

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Former Bitcoin Exchange CEO Sentenced for Selling Bitcoins for Silk Road Drug Purchase

  Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CHARLIE SHREM, the former Chief Executive Officer and Compliance Officer of BitInstant, a Bitcoin exchange company, and the former Vice Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, was sentenced today to two years in prison for his role in knowingly

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