A career flame-out is not necessarily the end of everything for once high fliers like former New York governor and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who has created another career out of the ashes of the one that went before. Spitzer was forced from office and the governor’s mansion by a sex scandal, but […]
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NEW YORK – LawFuel.com – Morrison & Foerster has appointed new co-chairs to lead the firm’s Corporate and Finance Departments. The Corporate Department co-chairs are San Francisco partner Brandon Parris and Tokyo partner Randy Laxer. The Finance Department co-chairs are New York partner Gary Lee and Tokyo partner Dale Caldwell. Pamela Reed, former Morrison &
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LawFuel.com – Australia trail-blazed the way for listed law firms with the listing six years ago of personal injury law firm Slater & Gordon and is now set to list another law firm, the recently-established Rockwell Olivier. Rockwell Olivier is owned by the listed company Integrated Legal Holdings and is a newly formed combination of
LawFuel.com – Slaughter and May is advising Standard Chartered PLC (the ‘Company’) on the implementation of a partial two-way fungibility programme enabling the redemption of Indian Depository Receipts (‘IDRs’) issued by the Company into ordinary shares of the Company (‘Shares’) and the conversion of Shares into IDRs. The Shares to be released on redemption
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Judy Clarke is an unlikely death row lawyers, but she has helped some of America’s worst criminals escape the death penalty and has now been appointed to the legal team to defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston bombing suspect. She has previously represented the famed “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski, along with Jared Lee Loughner, sentenced to life
NEW YORK – The BTI Consulting Group, a leading provider of market research for professional services firms, recently released a new survey, “2013 Brand Elite: Client Perceptions of the Best-Branded Law Firms.” In the survey, MoFo stands out as one of a small group of firms that BTI says “have it all in the eyes
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He has been one of America’s most celebrated criminal lawyers, acting for everyone from the Boston Strangler to O J Simpson, but the questions facing F Lee Bailey over his ability to practice law are not deterring the 79 year old from continuing his quest to work at what he loves. He has a tax
LawFuel.com – Global Law Newswire Service Leading international legal practice Norton Rose has today announced 33 partner promotions globally including, in South Africa, six promotions to director. For the second consecutive year, female partners accounted for a strong percentage of all promotions (42% this year and 44% last year). 25 promotions were made across Norton
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LawFuel.com – New York (April 16, 2013) – Morrison & Foerster has been recognized for its leadership in financial regulatory matters and named Law Firm of the Year by Operational Risk & Regulation magazine. The firm was recognized for the breadth of its financial services and regulatory expertise. The firm’s ability to assist North American,
LawFuel.com – Dechert partners Allison Fumai and Laura Swihart have been named to the Rising Stars Shortlist for the Euromoney Legal Media Group Americas Women in Business Law Awards, which honor female lawyers for their professional accomplishments, advocacy and influence. Fumai has been nominated in the corporate category, and Swihart has been nominated in the
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