Stefan He Qin Stole and Dissipated Nearly All the Assets of His $90 Million Flagship Hedge Fund and Attempted to Steal Millions of Dollars from a Secondary Fund to Pay Back Investors Audrey Strauss, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge of the New […]
Boies Schiller Flexner continues to make the news over disruptions at the firm, now heightened by the departure of co-managing partner Nick Gravante, (pictured left with co-leader Natasha Harrison) who has left the firm he headed for just one year to join Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Boies Schiller has been controversial in recent times with
Not many barristers would deal with the UK Voyeurism (Offences) Act 2019, but one has fallen foul of its provisions for an ‘upskirting’ offence that has seen him suspended from practice for six months and ordered to pay £1,200 to the Bar Standards Board. Daren Timson-Hunt, 55, had earlier admitted using his mobile phone to
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Slaughter and May financing partner Oliver Storey has left the firm following an investigation and advice from the firm’s London office to the Solicitors Regulation Authority about the matter. Senior partner Steve Cooke made the announcement about the departure adding: “We expect the highest standards of behaviour from all our partners and staff. If these
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Top London QC Richard Atkins has come under fire for his comments on Twitter about what a barrister should look like – including having a ‘proper haircut . . and having well polished shoes.” Atkins is a senior legal leader, head of St Philips Chambers and former Chair the Bar of England and Wales. He
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A royal row over anti-Semitism and sexism has developed between one of the UK’s most prestigious law firms and one of its top women litigagors, one of LawFuel’s ’13 Most Feared Women Litigators,‘ the so-called ‘Steel Magnolia’, Baroness Fiona Shackleton. Lady Shackleton has accused the Queen’s law firm, Farrer & Co of being a hotbed
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Deloitte once again demonstrates the ambitions of the Big Four accountants to push into the legaltech market.
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True to his word, Donald Trump is taking the election to court as Joe Biden closes in on the presidency. Biden has made a late surge to victory with his win on Wisconsin, based on mail-in and early votes counted after most of the ballots cast on election day. The Trump campaign said Wednesday afternoon
The Sun newspaper’s win in the Johnny Depp libel trial – the so called libel ‘trial of the century’ has seen some of Britain’s top lawyers battling it out in a bruising and eye wateringly expensive encounter that has paid dividends for the staunch view taken by Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper against the Hollywood actor in
Erica Watson – How fair can this be? Two senior partners earning vast amounts of money complaining about the somewhat lesser vast amounts being paid to junior lawyers? But true it is as two senior lawyers make their views on current salary levels in London law – prompted by US law firms stepping up their
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