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
Law firms are as susceptible to hacking and cyberespionage as any other organisation, but now large global law firms are looking to reduce hacking threats by sharing information. The firms are to follow the example set by banks and others to institute a threat-sharing forum to protect themselves from cyber attacks. The Hill reports that
LawFuel.com – Gregory W. Gray, Jr., Senior Managing Director of Buffalo-based venture capital firm Archipel Capital, LLC, Charged with Defrauding Investors Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and
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Privacy issues and various competing legal issues fight one another with regard to the releasing of Hillary Clinton’s personal emails – and it is a fight that has a long way to run. The 55,000 pages of emails relating to the former Secretary of State and likely presidential candidate may be released, but that date
LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Leslie R. Caldwell, the Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and Michael E. Horowitz, the Justice Department Inspector General, announced that JOHANNES THALER and RIZVE AHMED, a/k/a “Caesar,” were sentenced yesterday in White Plains federal court to
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Although lawyers work with words and can wield them to great effect, experitneced law teacher Bryan Garner writes in the ABA Journal that they can also be the most “inept wielders of words” – particularly transactional lawyers. He blames the law schools who inundate students with poorly-written and legalese-ridden opinions that he claims read like
Scheme Victimized More Than 1,000 Individuals Throughout the United States Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Acting Assistant Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, and Ronald J. Verrochio, the Inspector-in-Charge of the Miami Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), announced today
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