SANTA ANA, California – An Orange County man was sentenced this afternoon to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring with another man to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Muhanad Elfatih M.A. Badawi, 25, of Anaheim, was sentenced by United […]
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Hong Kong partner and Global Head of Arbitration, Matt Gearing QC has been elected as the new Chairperson of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). He will take on the role in 2017, succeeding Ms Teresa Cheng SC, who has served as HKIAC Chair since 2014. Matt has been actively involved with the HKIAC
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Attorneys and FBI investigators were in disagreement over the decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton over her private email server scandal with both FBI director James Comey and Attorney General Loretta Lynch coming in for stringent criticism. The Fox News reports indicated that those involved were demoralized by the decision made by Comey not to
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The Mexican judge who presided in several legal cases filed by lawyers for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was shot and killed outside his home on Monday. The Judge, Vicente Antonio Bermudez Zacarias, 37, died after being shot in the head while jogging in Metepec, about 40 miles from Mexico City. Guzman is the notorious drug lord
LOS ANGELES – A Compton man has been sentenced to more than ten years in federal prison for illegal methamphetamine and firearms sales. Luis Rodriguez Jr., 29, was sentenced on Monday to 121 months in federal prison by United States District Judge R. Gary Klausner. Rodriguez pled guilty earlier this year to
Legal jobs are up in New Zealand by almost 30 per cent according to TradeMe Jobs’ report, a fact borne out by an increase in law job listings on the LawFuel law jobs site, too. The TradeMe Jobs figures showed an overall increase in jobs of over 12 per cent in the three months to
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LawVision – Can it really be Fall again? Some of us have hardly noticed, being more astonished by the Cubs in the playoffs, or perhaps dismayed by the upcoming US election. But law firm leaders know it. As we enter October, firms are gearing up their year-end efforts – budgeting, rate setting, collections, and starting
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A rape allegation brought against Donald Trump has received a status conference hearing in December from a Federal Judge, Ronnie Abrams. The claim relates to a “Jane Doe” claim filed by a complainant who alleges Trump raped her when she was 13 in the 1990 and has now received an amended complaint from a witness “Jane
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When looking for better search engine visibility for your law firm’s website, one of the key tactics necessary is using the correct keywords. Google’s front page is a leaderboard, with the pages ranked 1 – 10. Good keyword research and competitor ‘spying’ combined with great content will serve to lift your law firm up
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has captured attention on a number of fronts – including how she lives her life – but now an interview with the 83 year old US Supreme Court justice has thrown some keenly-observed light upon what is necessary to bring up a strong daughter. The interview with the New York Times
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