How “super” are the ‘Super Lawyers’? How ‘rising’ are the legal stars? And are the “best lawyers” really best? These are issues that arise as as result of the plethora of awards and lists compiled by the legal media that have prompted a New Jersey committee charged with the responsibility of considering ethical advertising to […]
Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel financed the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker, along with other lawsuits against the gossip site. Many have asked ‘Why?’ Thiel, a former lawyer and Supreme Court clerk who went on to make billions as co-founder of PayPal among other ventures, said he regarded his financing of lawsuits against the scandal
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LawFuel.com – News about the law – Evgeny Buryakov, a/k/a “Zhenya,” Who Worked For Russian Intelligence Under “Non-Official Cover” As A Banker In Manhattan, Was Also Ordered To Pay A $10,000 Fine And Ordered Removed From The United States Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York,
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Slaughter and May advised Ambatana B.V. Holdings in relation to the letgo merger of U.S. operations with Wallapop S.L. Under the terms of the agreement, Wallapop’s U.S. operations will be absorbed into letgo, creating a strong player in the U.S. mobile classifieds market. The combined entity will be majority owned and managed by letgo, and
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Law firm branding is big business, but it can also be fraught with difficulty and potential disaster. There are various issues that can arise if law firm branding is not handled properly. So a kind of case study of how to do it properly was displayed by Ross Fishman of Fishman Marketing who launched five litigation
Taking Into Account Taxpayer Funded Pension, Dean Skelos Also Ordered to Pay a $500,000 Fine – Both Defendants Ordered to Forfeit $334,120 of Crime Proceeds Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today
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Getting paid at the rate of $2000 an hour may seem a pipe dream of interplanetary proportions, but some clients are willing to pay it and several are happy to do so. A new report from BTI Consulting shows that there has been a significant increase in the rate corporate clients are prepared to pay
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The Bahamas Man Who Stole Celebrity Secrets for Profit LawFuel.com – Law News Online – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALONZO KNOWLES pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to criminal copyright infringement of scripts of movies and television shows that had not yet aired,
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LawFuel.com – Lawyer News Online – Skadden is representing HCP, Inc. in the spin-off of its HCR ManorCare portfolio of skilled nursing and assisted living assets (a portfolio valued at approximately $5.1 billion by HCP), as well as other skilled nursing assets, into an independent, publicly traded REIT. HCP is an S&P 500 company with
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SANTA ANA, California – A longtime member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang who controlled Latino street gangs in Orange County for at least three decades was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison after being found guilty earlier this year of federal racketeering offenses. Peter Ojeda, 74, was sentenced this morning
