Law Firms

LawFuel.com – Hong Kong-based dispute resolution and litigation specialist law firm Gall is pleased to announce the appointment of partner Jennifer Van Dale as head of its employment practice following her recent hire from Baker & McKenzie, where she headed the firm’s Hong Kong employment practice. Jennifer is widely regarded as one of Hong Kong […]

    LOS ANGELES – Two Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies who were assigned to the Men’s Central Jail have been indicted on federal civil rights charges that accuse them of illegally using force against an inmate, and then attempting to cover up the incident with false reports that formed the basis of a false prosecution

Legalizing marijuana is not a high priority for the Obama administration, presidential hopeful Joe Biden has said. Talking to Time Magazine, the Vice President may have been countering the comments made by the president when he told the New Yorker that marijuana was no more dangerous than cannabis. Biden said the Administration supports smarter enforcement,

On January 28, 2014, Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. and Texas Industries, Inc. announced that the Boards of Directors of both companies have unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement under which Martin Marietta will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Texas Industries common stock in a tax‑free, stock‑for‑stock transaction valued at US$2.7 billion. Cravath represented Martin Marietta

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Toni Weirauch, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”), announced the indictment today of PETER AMREIN, an asset manager at a Swiss asset management firm who assisted U.S. taxpayer- clients and

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that IGOR BELYANSKY and DAVID BINMAN were sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 20 and nine months in prison, respectively, for conspiring to pay approximately $20,000 in bribes to former New York State Assemblyman Eric Stevenson in exchange for Stevenson’s