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LexisNexis Acquires China Legal Information Provider

HONG KONG, Nov. 27, 2013 LawFuel.com Law News Daily — LexisNexis® recently acquired Greater China’s leading practical legal information provider, LegalStudio®. With an extensive library of fully bi-lingual Chinese commercial contracts supported by daily legal and tax news updates, articles and commentaries, LegalStudio® offers critical support to legal professionals in companies and law firms across […]

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Law Firm Mergers at Record High

Law firms are facing a record year of mergers, notwithstanding the canning of the proposed merger between Orrick Herrington and Pillsbury Winthrop, announced today.   Reuters reported that Orrick Chairman Mitch Zuklie and Pillsbury Chairman James Rishwain said in a joint interview that a conflict of interest between clients in Orrick’s public finance practice and

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Former Animal Planet Television Host Pleads Guilty to Selling Endangered Wildlife

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  LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com – Donald Schultz, 35, of Playa Vista, the former host of Animal Planet’s “Wild Recon” television show, pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of violating the Endangered Species Act by offering to sell, and selling, two live desert monitor lizards (Varanus griseus) in interstate commerce. [wp_ad_camp_1] In the plea

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Equity Partners Being Squeezed From Bigger Law Firms

Squeezing equity partners out of partnerships in order to squeeze more profits out of law firms has become a “managed equity” way to generate more income in a “down” law market, according to reports from Australia, but the same is reportedly occurring in other jurisdictions as well. Shoulder-tapping equity partners in large firms has been

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Dallas Law Firm Welcomes New Associate to Fidelity & Surety Practice Unit

Dallas, Texas — Strasburger & Price, LLP (Strasburger) is pleased to welcome Rebecca Fitzgibbons Nichols to its Dallas office’s Fidelity & Surety Practice Unit. Nichols joined the firm as an associate. She received her law degree from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law School in 2012 and focuses her practice primarily in the areas

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Don’t Call Tom Cruise a Poor Parent . . The Latest Cruise Defamation Suit

With his trusty, long-serving lawyer Bert Fields at his side, Tom Cruise has come out fighting to prove his parenting skills and devotion to his kids in his defamation lawsuit. He’s got a reasonable track record when it comes to defamation suits, winning $10 million against the gay porn star Chad Slater, who told a

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Jeff Bakker and Philippe Bourassa Named Lexpert Rising Stars

  TORONTO (November 5, 2013) – Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), one of Canada’s leading business law firms, today announced that two of its partners, Jeff Bakker and Philippe Bourassa, have been honoured as “Lexpert Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40.” The event took place last night at The Fairmont Royal York Hotel in

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