Ever wondered about legal fee disparity – where one firm charges vastly more (or less) than another for precisely the same job. The Guardian reports this week about precisely that, showing massive disparity among UK law firms for work that is precisely the same in a survey conducted by a the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and […]
The Massive Fees Disparity For Law Firms, UK Survey Shows Read More »
TOKYO – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Philippe Riesen has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Department and Chemical, Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practice as a partner in the Tokyo office. Riesen has been assisting Japanese companies with U.S. patent litigation and counseling for more than 25 years. He is experienced in a wide
Foley Expands IP Practice in Tokyo with Philippe Riesen Read More »
For a firm dealing with the super-rich, super-elite, super-secret, Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca has just become a euphemism for all of those things. And for many of the wrong reasons. The firm is very well known in a lot of people in those groups, but now thanks to a leak of massive volumes of documents
The Panama Papers Leak – Is It The Ashley Madison For Cheats? Read More »
UK based, international law firm Kennedys has strengthened its insurance practice with the appointment of Ian Davies as a partner, as he becomes the third former partner of Lyons Davidson to move over. Mr Davies follows Mark Walsh and Robert Wallace, as well as solicitor Sandip Sidhu and legal executive Rachel Harbour, in joining the
Hacking into Big Law names like Cravaths, Weil Gotshal and others has raised the stakes in the cyber security threat level for law firms generally. Investigators are determining whether confidential information has been stolen from the hacking of the firms, who represent some of the biggest corporations in the world. If data has been stolen
We all know that Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner and reality star is a keen litigator. The cases may not reach court, but he loves the “Art of the Litigation”. Remember when he sued a journalist for $5 billion – that’s one journalist who might even be richer than Trump, evidently – for under estimating
The FBI has issued a Private Industry Notification to law firms indicating that a cyber crime insider trading ring is targeting “international law firm information used to facilitate business ventures.” According to the FBI “[T]he scheme involves a hacker compromising the law firm’s computer networks and monitoring them for material, non-public information….This information, gained prior
FBI Warn Law Firms Of Targeting by Cyber Criminals Read More »
Is there a conflict of interest between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and her willingness to commence a prosecution of Hillary Clinton over the Clinton email server? Writing in WND.com, Jerome Corsi notes that there is little known about the fact that the Attorney General was a litigation partner in a Washington law firm that represented
Loretta Lynch’s Hillary Clinton Conflict Problem Read More »
LawFuel.com – Law News Daily – Charges Unsealed Against Three Defendants Who Allegedly Engaged in Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Transactions on Behalf of the Government of Iran and Iranian Entities As Part of a Scheme to Evade U.S. Sanctions Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John
Charges Unsealed Against Turkish Defendants in Iran Sanction-Busting Case Read More »
Okay, so Donald Trump’s rallies are creating a fuss – so how can a law firm deal best with the Donald Trump fight clubs? Law firm Klepper & Wood received a little Daily Show publicity for their phone message – very nice touch – to say the least. >> Like a home in New Zealand?
