Privacy and data security is constantly evolving and 2018 presented no exception. Let’s take a look back at some of the highlights of this year. Cambridge Analytica (March 2018): Facebook announced that Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, SCL Group, had misappropriated data from 87 million Facebook users, mostly located in the United States. Congressional hearings […]
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the filing of a criminal complaint charging FABIO BRETAS DE FREITAS with commodities fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud,
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Dykema and Loss, Judge & Ward Announce Combination Detroit/Washington, D.C. – December 4, 2018 — Dykema, a leading national law firm, and Loss, Judge & Ward, LLP, a Chambers-ranked Washington, D.C., firm, today announced their strategic combination. The combination takes effect on January 1, 2019, and will double each firm’s Washington, D.C., presence. The depth and experience of Loss, Judge
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The trial of ‘El Chapo’, aka Joaquin Guzman, has seen his defense lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman, 53, once more thrust into the headlines following his high profile defense of Mafia don John Gotti Jr, who Lichtman kept out of prison for 12 years. Lichtman is representing El Chapo on the international conspiracy indictments filed by the
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Achieving gender equality is one of the law profession’s major issues and so when a major firm – particularly one as gold-plated as Cravath Swaine & Moore – announce that their latest partner intake not only comprises mainly women, but only women, then it’s three cheers for them. It isn’t the first time Cravath has
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Morrison & Foerster – Today, California’s Second Appellate District Court stayed the trial that was set to begin on Monday, October 15, 2018, in Los Angeles Superior Court, regarding whether cancer warnings are required for sales of coffee in California. The trial in Council for Education and Research on Toxics v. Starbucks Corporation et al. (Los Angeles
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Benchmark Litigation Recognizes Kelley Drye Litigators Lee Brenner, David Fink, Jeffrey Jacobson, Michael Lynch, William Petit OCTOBER 2, 2018Kelley Drye is proud to announce attorneys recognized in Benchmark Litigation 2019: Partners Lee S. Brenner and David E. Fink were named California Local Litigation Stars. Partners Jeffrey S. Jacobson and Michael C. Lynch were named New York Local Litigation Stars. Partner William C. Petit was named to the “40 & Under Hot List.”
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Washington Correspondent If ever the Trump administration and its lawyers could become more weird it might have been in the last couple of weeks. Apart from the Cohen plea, there has also been the exiting of White House Counsel Don McGahn and his potential replacement by King & Spalding litigator Bobby Burchfield, who has been
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Mark Hamilton The growth in the legal head count at the Big Four accounting firms has increasingly got lawyers talking. And clients. A recent comment from WickerPark Group in a blog item noted that the main observations about what is happening comes from the M&A and tax professionals who have wide exposure to both the
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