LOS ANGELES – Two men who were leaders of a scheme involving a company called Gigapix that defrauded hundreds of victims by promising large returns on movie investments and a production company’s imminent public offering were sentenced today, receiving sentences of up to eight years in federal prison. The two defendants sentenced […]
Rapidly-rising London rentals – around six times the UK national average – may be pushing out one of London’s “Magic Circle” law firms, Freshfields. According to rercent reports Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has instructed real estate agents to find 100,000 square feet in Manchester to accommodate its 1300 UK staff. The reports frm the Estates Gazette
The increasing controversy over the discovery and now publication of Lee Harper’s sequel to her vaunted “To Kill a Mockingbird” has been aired further with Harper’s lawyer describing how she discovered the long-lost novel. In an interview with the New York Times, Tonja Brooks Carter said she was doing some legal work for Lee one
Latham & Watkins appears to have been enjoying a field day raiding Clifford Chance for new partners, with the latest being two CC partners in the German officie, Olliver Felsenstein and Burc Hesse. Hesse joined Clifford Chance from Lovells in 2006, as part of Clifford Chance’s swoop on a five-strong private equity team from Lovells. The Lawyer
Cravath – On January 26, 2015, Rock-Tenn Company (“RockTenn”) and MeadWestvaco Corporation (“MWV”) announced that they have entered into a definitive combination agreement to create a leading global provider of consumer and corrugated packaging in a transaction with a combined equity value of $16 billion. Cravath represented RockTenn in connection with this transaction, which is
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Katy Perry’s lawyers, Greeberg Traurig have bitten over her “Left Shark” dancing image seen in the Super Bowl act from the pop sensation, requesting a 3-D print sculpture sold online be taken offline – Now! The dancing shark became a phenomenon and inevitably spawned those seeking to politicize or monetize the shark. Not if Greenberg Traurig has
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ALEX V. EKDESHMAN, the Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Management, LLC, pleaded guilty today to commodities fraud. EKDESHMAN ran a fraudulent scheme in which he solicited over $1.5 million dollars from over 100 investors for the purpose of investing
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There are criminals all over the world. Some people are convicted of crimes that they did actually commit, while others who are victims of being falsely accused of crimes that they had absolutely nothing to do with. No matter what, though, there are a few crimes that are considered the most common types of crimes
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LawFuel.com – “As a unanimous jury has found, Ross William Ulbricht operated Silk Road – a clandestine global marketplace that offered buyers and sellers of illegal goods and services a promise of anonymity. Ulbricht built this black market bazaar to exploit the dark web and the digital currency Bitcoin to allow users to conduct illegal
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Northern UK law firm Brabners, with 65 partners and offices in Manchester, Liverpool and Preston, grew its fee income to £30.2m in the 12 months to April 30 2014, resulting from an investment in both talent and technology, according to managing partner Mark Brandwood (picture He told the Manchester Evening News: “While many of our
