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Actors’ Agent Pleads Guilty To Stealing More Than Half a Million Dollars

Law Firms / March 6, 2014

The Defendant Stole Funds from Television Actors to Buy Personal Luxury Goods and Artwork Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced that PETER STRAIN, a talent agent for film, […]

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Personal Injury Bike Share Lawsuit

Law Firms / March 5, 2014

How can a bike share operation be the subject of a $15 million lawsuit? Where does personal injury law end and common sense begin? Or is the lawsuit one that has total merit? These are all questions facing Ronald Corwin, 73, and his personal injury lawyers, who are suing Citi Bike and New York City

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5 Steps for Internet Success for Lawyers

Law Firms / March 5, 2014

How can lawyers accept that the internet is a genuine market for them to use to sell their services. For many lawyers, using the internet to market and sell their services has been as strange as have an electrician fix your broken toilet. Why? Well, an article from Legal Futures outlines exactly what can be

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Alternative Energy Fraud Leads to Conviction for California Man

Law Firms / March 4, 2014

LOS ANGELES – A Northern California man has been convicted of federal fraud charges for his involvement in a $7 million investment scheme that lured investors with false promises relating to the development of an alternative energy technology, Richard S. Hartunian, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York,

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Will Patton Boggs Simply Become a DC Memorial to What Might Have Been?

Law Firm Management, Law Firms / March 3, 2014

Patton Bloggs is a law firm in DC that has a pedigree and profile almost as distinctive as the Lincoln Memorial. But will the firm itself become a monument to what was . . and what could have been? Or will the firm’s entanglement with the oil monolith Chevron ensure that the firm simply disappears

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Elder Law Firms in Merger

Law Firm Management, Law Firms / March 3, 2014

Elder law is an area of growing importance for law firms in an era of boomging numbers of baby boomers. In Hartford Connecticut the aging population has created a law firm merger for the growing – ageing – population base. Law firm mergers and acquisitions continue apace, especiallyl among small firms seeking scale and a

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The Oscar Trial

Law Firms / March 3, 2014

The Oscar Pistorius trial started – late by some 90 minutes due to an absent Africaans translator, with Pistorious arriving looking relatively calm compared to his emotional, previous appearances Pistorius’s uncle, brother and sister are also in court with him and also present are Ms Steenkamp, including her mother. News24 reported that three empty water

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So Whose The Best Law Firm Brand? Skaddens, of course

Law Firms, Law Marketing / March 3, 2014

It’s happened again. Skadden Arps are regarded as having the strongest brand in the survey of US law firm brands made by research outfit Acritas, who measure brands and have said Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is first. It is the third year in a row for Skaddens to take the title. American Lawyer

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Judges and Juries Not For Sale in Texas

Law Firms, Press Releases, US Law / March 1, 2014

LawFuel.com – Lanier Law Firm – The right to a trial before an impartial jury of citizens is the fundamental principle of our judiciary system under the U.S. Constitution. When a jury verdict or the actions of a court raise questions about the law, the state appellate courts provide a forum to consider, interpret and

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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Fairway Group Holdings Corp

Law Firms / March 1, 2014

LawFuel.com – Pomerantz LLP has filed a class action lawsuit against Fairway Group Holdings Corporation (“Fairway” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:FWM) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in United States District Court, Southern District of New York, and docketed under 14-cv-0950 is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons or entities

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