Swedish prosecutors are to travel to Britain to question the holed-up WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over allegations of sexual assault. Assange has been taking refuge in London’s Ecuadorean Embassy since June 2012, denying police entry and also the allegation against him. The NY Times reports that Swedish officials had previously refused to conduct interviews in London. […]
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US Attorney Preet Bharara has announced the potential end of La Cosa Nostra with the guilty plea of former capo Daniel Pagano. The release from the US Attorney: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of DANIEL PAGANO, a Captain of the Genovese Organized
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Skadden Arps – LawFuel.com – Skadden represented The Coca-Cola Company in an €8.5 billion offering of notes — the largest-ever euro-denominated notes offering by a U.S. issuer, which closed March 9. Sponsored Posts 3 Reasons Why Eating Wheat is Killing You – Read Exclusive Movie Deals Online Natural ED Treatment
Facility that has Polluted East L.A. for over 90 Years will be Cleaned Up Pursuant to Agreement Designed to Allow Exide to Emerge from Bankruptcy LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com The United States and Exide Technologies have reached an agreement that calls for the battery manufacturing company to immediately and forever close a battery
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Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced Chambers Global has once again recognized the firm’s Latin America & the Caribbean Practice as among the best in International Arbitration: Latin America-wide. Akerman lawyers continue to be singled out as leaders in their fields of practice. The 2015 edition
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Gender parity is a lofty goal for many law firms, but the cruel truth is that most don’t achieve it. Not so for Canadian law firm Lerners LLP though. The Toronto litigation firm has 55 per cent women lawyers, of whom 45 per cent are partners. And that is double Canada’s national average. But it
Houston, 9 March 2015 – Mayer Brown announced today that Francisco Mendez has joined the firm as a partner in its Global Energy practice. Previously, he spent nearly 20 years at ExxonMobil Corporation as in-house counsel for Latin America, where he most recently advised the company on the opening of the oil and gas
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(NEW ORLEANS, LA.) – Effective May 1, 2015, and for the first time in the state of Louisiana, every lawyer who does pro bono work can receive up to three hours of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit each year, under an order signed by Chief Justice Bernette J. Johnson of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
MoFo filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of marriage equality on March 6. The brief is on behalf of leading experts in international law and human rights, including Harold Koh, who was the Legal Adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Thomas Buergenthal, who is a former judge
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Australians and others are treating the impending execution of two men sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug smuggling with a mixture of anger and revulsion. Editorials and commentaries across Australia and condemning the decision by the Indonesian government for its double standards over the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Indonesian president Joko
