Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings. The 2013 attack was the most serious in the US since the 9/11 attacks. The jury took a day and a half to find Tsarnaev guilty of the 30 counts he faced. He was also found guilty of murdering a policeman, car […]
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Philadelphia – April 8, 2015 – Joan C. Arnold, a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP and chair of the firm’s Tax Practice Group, has been elected president of the American College of Tax Counsel (ACTC), the preeminent professional association of tax lawyers in private practice. Ms. Arnold is the first woman to hold the office
Weil Gotshal & Manges is a major, white shoe law firm. But their April fools joke went down like they had their feet in their mouths. Big mistake Weil. They ‘joke’ was a work/life balance one – you’ve heard them, we’re sure. It declared that under a firm-wide, new email policy no emails were to
LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury today indicted the general manager of a La Puente garment factory on charges of offering to pay bribes to an investigator with the United States Department of Labor in exchange for the investigator closing an investigation into wage violations. Howard Quoc Trinh, 41, of Arcadia,
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Facebook remains a key tool for any business’s online social media strategy. The full power of the network is frequently missed by many, however, through some basic “Facebook neglects”. Many lawyers remain uncertain – even untrusting – of the network. They are unsure about how to use it, how frequently to use it and what
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Office of Statewide Prosecution and the Federal Bureau of Investigation today arrested members of the Traditional American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Defendants, Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, David Elliot Moran, 47, and Charles Thomas Newcomb, 42, all face one state count of conspiracy to commit murder for allegedly plotting
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CHICAGO–A dispute spanning 70 years of alleged usurpation, trespass, and illegal conversion of private property rights in Serbia came to a crossroads in a lawsuit filed today by the heirs of two prominent Serbian families. The lawsuit asserts that Minnesota-based Carlson has refused to recognize or even discuss the families’ claims of ownership of
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Senator Robert Menendez has been indicted on public corruption charges. The Democrat senator is charged with allegedly accepting bribes from a Florida ophthalmologist in exchange for using his position to push the doctor’s interests, according to a Justice Department official and reported by HuffingtonPost. Menendez was indicted on a total of 14 charges: one count of
Why are there so few black lawyers in the big law firms? A recent survey says there are only three percent of lawyers in BigLaw who are African American and their numbers are actually declining with fewer than two percent being partners. The numbers have declined since the economic downturn according to American Lawyer’s Diversity
Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is under investigation for allegedly groping a model and a complaint against the high profile Weinstein has been filed, according to reports. Allegations first emerged in the New York Daily News, which identified the model as a 22 year old Italian who alleged she had been groped last Friday in New York. The woman
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