WASHINGTON – LawFuel.com – U.S. Attorneys are joining forces with local law enforcement and community leaders for a series of events around the country to address backlash against Muslim, Arab, Sikh and South Asian Americans following the tragic terrorist attacks in Brussels, Paris and San Bernardino, California. The 14 events in 11 districts will […]
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So how did Led Zeppelin get into this “Stairway to Heaven” lawsuit mess? The lawsuit, which alleges that members of the iconic band plagiarized key elements in the equally iconic song, is to move to a full jury trial. The lawsuit goes back two years when the estate of Randy Wolfe, a former guitarist with
The Panamanian Papers scandal has rocked the political, financial and legal worlds as if the whole thing was a John Grisham legal thriller. And so who better to analyze just how the law firm that created the secretive law firm behind the global secrecy deals than the New York Times? The story of how two
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Wells Fargo Bank Admits That It Certified That Loans Were Eligible for FHA Mortgage Insurance When They Were Not, and That It Did Not Report Thousands of Faulty Mortgage Loans to HUD Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Julián Castro, Secretary of the U.S. Department of
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DENVER – Jason Timothy Throne, age 55, formerly of Colorado, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to mail fraud and filing a false income tax return, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, IRS Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced. Judge Arguello is scheduled to sentence Throne on July 13,
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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
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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
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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
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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
