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.
ALM Legal Intelligence and the International Paralegal Management Association (IPMA) invite both law firms and law departments to participate in the 2013 ALM/IPMA Compensation Survey for Paralegals and Managers. The survey collects salary, bonus, and overtime data on 13 paralegal positions as well data on benefits and management practices. This essential guide to paralegal compensation
Cooley, the Silicon Valley-based law firm best known for technology and life sciences work, moved into the Warner Building in downtown D.C. last month — a space once occupied by Howrey, the esteemed Washington law firm that dissolved and filed for bankruptcy in 2011. The move is more than a little symbolic. If Howrey was
A joint study of law firms and their future, based on data from 135 US firms shows that they will need to embrace shifting changes in the legal market as well as warning that the sector will not be returning to its pre Global Financial Crisis heyday. Law.com reports: Jointly produced by the Center for
TORONTO (February 8, 2013) – Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), one of Canada’s leading business law firms, won three awards at the first Benchmark Canada Awards ceremony held at the Park Hyatt in Toronto on February 6. Blakes was awarded with Product Liability Firm of the Year, Class Action Litigator of the Year (James
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