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LawFuel.com – Vannin Capital, the market leading third party litigation funder, is pleased to announce its attendance at the 18th Annual International Arbitration Day on 26 and 27 February in Washington. Jointly presented by the International Bar Association (IBA) Arbitration Committee and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) the two day event […]

  LawFuel.com – Hogan Lovells represented 3M in its definitive agreement with Polypore International Inc. to acquire the assets and liabilities associated with Polypore’s Separations Media business for a total purchase price of US$1.0 billion. The Hogan Lovells cross-border, multidisciplinary team was led by Washington D.C. corporate partners Joseph Gilligan, Paul Manca, Brian O’Fahey, and

SANTA ANA, California – A Huntington Beach woman was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison for embezzling nearly $3.5 million from her former employer, a warehouse and trucking-services company. Patricia A. Francisco, 62, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Cormac J. Carney after the defendant pleaded guilty in August to four

It has been one of the more high profile workplace discrimination lawsuits, involving gender issues and filed by the media personality and ‘trans blogger’ B Scott in 2013 against BET and parent company Viacom for $2.5 million and has been settled. The gender issues involved the personality being discriminated against for dressing in clothing that

Sex and the law is always a somewhat tantalizing topic, but for the issue of teacher-student relationships there has always been a somewhat conflicted attitude in the academe it seems.  Whilst frowned upon, it is seen by some in the professorial class as being something akin to a fringe benefit. We remember – don’t we?

LawFuel.com – Law News, Law Marketing – Zachary Zwerko Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading Charges Involving Trading in at Least Three Different Pharmaceutical Acquisitions Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ZACHARY ZWERKO pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit

Running a major law firm these days is fraught with both risk and opportunity – perhaps in equal measure. And who better to provide some insight into both – and many other issues – than Freshfields Bruckaus Deringer? Included in their report are details on: Financial & geopolitical risk Tax reform issues Directors’ personal liability