LawFuel.com – The seemingly increasing trend for judges to re-join the ranks of the bar or law firms after serving their time on the bench, often ending prematurely, is awakened again with the decision by a judge who ordered Apple to publish an apology to Samsung on its website joining a law firm involved in […]
Washington, DC – The global law firm Jones Day is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Qualifying Foreign Law Practice (QFLP) licence, allowing the Firm to advise on Singapore law matters in permitted areas. The licencing application period took place in July and August of 2012, and 23 foreign law practices submitted
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Minneapolis-based international law firm Dorsey & Whitney is feeling good about 2013 – which is a nice change compared to many of their fellow travellers in the legal world. The surprise departure of former Managing Partner Marianne Short took the firm and many others by surprise. However the firm, with 19 international offices ranging from
LawFuel.com – International law firm Clifford Chance advised Royal Dutch Shell plc on its acquisition of part of Repsol S.A.´s LNG portfolio outside of North America for a cash consideration of US$4.4 billion. The transaction includes plant capacity and supply positions in Peru and Trinidad and Tobago, a 25 per cent stake in a power
LawFuel.com – US Law News – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DONNA GUERIN, an attorney, was sentenced today to eight years in prison on conspiracy and tax evasion charges stemming from her work on the design, marketing, and implementation of fraudulent tax shelters that allowed
LawFuel.com – US Attorney, Southern District New York – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALICIA HOLMES pled guilty yesterday to a three-count Indictment, charging HOLMES with devising and operating a scheme to defraud individuals and entities of hundreds of thousands of dollars in accommodations, goods,
Skadden Arps has shown itself to be the biggest law firm brand in the annual Acritas US law firm brand index, compiled from a survey of over 700 general counsel. The Skadden win was for the second straight year and was followed by Jones Day, Baker & McKenzie and Latham & Watkins It appears that
LawFuel.com – Pomerantz Grossman Hufford Dahlstrom & Gross LLP has filed a class action lawsuit against Tangoe, Inc. (“Tangoe” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:TNGO) and certain of its officers. The class action filed in United States District Court, District of Connecticut, and docketed under 3:13-CV-286(VLB), is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons or
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LawFuel.com – US Law News – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Steven Miller, the Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS), and Tamar Ashford, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, announced today that Ernst & Young LLP (“E&Y”)
Reuters report that major Washington DC-based Patton Boggs has laid off staff in further legal cutbacks that continue to plague the law profession in the US. Patton Boggs has over 550 lawyers spread over nine offices internationally and the layoffs will not be welcome news to the industry, or to those looking for law jobs.
