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Former Senior KPMG Audit Partner Involved in “Chain of Corruption” Over PCAOB Info

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 Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID MIDDENDORF, who was the National Managing Partner for audit quality at the accounting firm KPMG LLP (“KPMG”), and JEFFREY WADA a former employee of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”), were convicted of wire fraud charges in […]

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Doing Away With Lawyers . . Why ‘The Law’ Is Increasingly Dispensing With Lawyers

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Charles Needham* The Practice of law is increasingly doing away with the notion that ‘lawyers’ in the conventional sense are the ones to provide the advice businesses and people require. The need for lawyers is diminishing, with the onset of technology and ‘new-model legal providers’, who are now handling business and personal issues in a

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Former Congressman Michael Capuano Joins Foley in Boston

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FOLEY ADDS FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL CAPUANO IN BOSTON BOSTON, MASS. ­– Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that former U.S. Congressman Michael Capuano has joined the firm’s Government Solutions Practice as a public affairs director, splitting his time between the firm’s Boston and Washington D.C. offices. He joins Foley’s team of former Congressmen, which includes public affairs directors Dennis Cardoza and Scott Klug,

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US Magic Circle Spoilers Continue to Disrupt The City

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LawFuel subscribers will recall our June 2018 article about London’s top-earning lawyers, which featured David Higgins, among others, who left Freshfields to join the aggressively expansive Kirkland & Ellis. Higgins, a private equity lawyer, made the move that some saw as insulting to his old firm and the Magic Circle, but it was nonetheless followed

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Buchalter Expand Health Care Practice in Sacramento

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LOS ANGELES, Calif., February 19, 2019 – Buchalter is pleased to announce that James Andrew (“Drew”) Caprile and Gene Berk have joined as members of the Health Care Practice Group in Sacramento. Both were previously the founders and co-shareholders of Koenig, Caprile & Berk, a boutique health care law firm.  Caprile and Berk both have extensive experience

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Big Bucks From Big Law = Toxic Work, Say Junior Lawyers

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Big Bucks From Big Law = Toxic Work Environment Say, Junior Lawyers Tom Bowker – ‘Toxic’ work environments in law firms have been the subject of a contentious letter written by junior UK lawyers, following young laywers struck off after working in difficult conditions. The letter was sent to the UK Junior Solicitors Regulation Authority

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Allen & Overy Expands Consulting Practice to Australia

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Allen & Overy is expanding its regulatory consulting business, A&O Consulting, to Australia with the appointment of a new Partner to head the practice. Lee Alam will join A&O Consulting from Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), where he was the General Manager of Global Regulatory Affairs. In this role he was responsible for managing CBA’s

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QBE North America Partners with LawyerGuard® to Deliver Specialized Solutions for Law Firms

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LawFuel – Law Marketing & Management News – QBE North America, an integrated specialist insurer, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with LawyerGuard to deliver professional liability coverage to lawyers and address the unique legal malpractice exposures faced by law firms. This program focuses on law firms with 1-100 attorneys, targets a multitude of

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