LOS ANGELES – A San Gabriel Valley businessman who coordinated the importation of 11 containers of counterfeit apparel – including Nike, Gucci and Coach products worth more than $2.3 million – was sentenced today to 31 months in federal prison. Today’s sentencing is the second in the past two weeks in which […]
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Janet DiFiore, the Westchester County District Attorney, Scott W. Brown, Tarrytown Police Chief on behalf of the Greenburgh Drug and Alcohol Task Force, and George Venizelos, Assistant Director-In-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced
At a time when law firms are becoming “virtual” and outsourcing is all the rage, an historic law firm with roots going back 231 years is something not just charming, but also historic. The oldest law firm in the United States is evidently Rawle & Henderson, who have been plying their legal trade in Philadelphia
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Slaughter and May, Hong Kong, advised the agent, Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited, on behalf of the lenders and facility arrangers, in relation to a HK$8.8 billion syndicated loan facility for CITIC Pacific Limited entered into on 4 April 2014.
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John Bowie A story in the New York Times earlier this year created high interest everywhere, not the least among the former crisply-suited legal colleagues of the distinguished-looking, down-on-his-luck lawyer Gregory Owens. The problem faced by Mr Owens is that one of his law firms went belly up and he had entered the world of
International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges is advising FTSE 250 company RPC Group Plc, one of the world’s leading suppliers of rigid plastic packaging, in its planned acquisition of Hong Kong headquartered ACE Corporation Holdings Limited, for an initial consideration of US$301 million (£178 million) and a total consideration of up to US$430 million
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Toby Moffett will co-lead US legislative affairs and help coordinate firm’s activities in Africa Washington, DC, 1 May 2014 – Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that former US Representative Toby Moffett has joined the firm in Washington DC as a senior advisor in its Government & Global Trade
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The glory days of Big Law are gone for most of the American Lawyer Top 100 firms, according to the latest report. It’s not all bad news, but its not exactly exciting times either for Big Law as cost cutting measures, slower client demand, discounting fees and the overall effect of the financial crisis bringing
Women in law continues to be an area of growing interest – not just for women but also for the law profession. And so Yale’s “Women in Law” report on the Top 10 Family Friendly law firms is a matter of considerable interest. The survey involves Vault 100 law firms and looks at issues ranging
Law firm mergers are hardly anything new, but watching small firms grown into big ones is one of the trends encouraged through deregulated markets, like the UK legal market. And so the most recent news of a UK legal merger, between a firm that had its origins in Liverpool over 200 years ago and
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