Of all the stories that dominated US sports and law readers this year, the NFL scandal involving Ray Rice and the suspensions for domestic violence and child abuse drew some of the most attention. Rice, who was recently reinstated to the NFL after the violence to his then fiancé, drew attention to domestic violence education among both […]
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You have to hand it to a judge who uses a cartoon to make a forceful point. And so US District judge Robert Jonkers used one for a Jones Day lawyers edification. How come, you ask? The judge’s problem was that the lawyer, Michael Ginsberg, had filed a motion in New Jersey state court to enjoin
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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 – 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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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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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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Fishman Marketing – It’s a nice simple e-card that gently supports the firm’s brand. A number of years ago we worked with the wonderful Maggie Watkins, then CMO of 200-lawyer Best Best & Krieger to develop a new brand and website. We’d joked that she was literally working at the Best firm. Twice. In fact, in a
LOS ANGELES – A task force investigation into the street gang that has terrorized the Ramona Gardens housing complex in Boyle Heights for decades has resulted in a federal racketeering indictment and the arrest this morning of 25 members and associates of the criminal enterprise. During a law enforcement operation this morning,
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Arguments that his intellectual disability should see Robert Wayne Holsey reprieved from the death penalty failed before the US Supreme Court and Holsey was killed by lethal injection Tuesday night. Lower courts had already rejected Holsey’s lawyers’ arguments that an intellectual disability and the fact that his trial lawyer was an alcoholic meant he should
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LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DANIEL BONVENTRE, the former Director of Operations for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today to 10 years in prison for his role in Madoff’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the largest in
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