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Andrew G. May Admitted to Partnership in Neal Gerber Eisenberg Litigation Practice Group

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CHICAGO (January 3, 2019) – Neal Gerber Eisenberg (NGE) is pleased to announce that Andrew G. May, previously an associate of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group, has been promoted to partner, effective January 1, 2019. May focuses his practice on high-stakes litigation and has substantial experience in successfully prosecuting and defending a wide variety of litigation […]

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Arent Fox Continues National Expansion, Merges with Boston’s Posternak

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Boston, MA – December 18, 2018 – Arent Fox LLP and Posternak Blankstein & Lund LLP are pleased to announce they have reached a formal agreement to merge, effective January 1, 2019. The merger will mark Arent Fox’s first expansion into the Boston market. Founded in 1980, Posternak is a 55-lawyer Boston-based firm focusing on business transactions and complex

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Baker McKenzie Retains Top Position in Euromoney’s Real Estate Survey for 10th Consecutive Year

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Global law firm Baker McKenzie has once again retained its number one position at the top of Euromoney’s annual Real Estate survey for its global legal services.  Canvassing the opinions of almost 2,500 real estate advisors, developers, financial institutions, investors and corporate end-users worldwide, the 2018 Euromoney survey aims to determine the best providers of

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Privacy & Data Security: All Roads Appear to Lead Towards Uniformity of Privacy Regulation in US Law

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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

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Miami Investment CEO Used Sham Companies To Steal Money and Identities

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            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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Law Firm Tie-Up Will Double DC Presence for Both

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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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What You Need To Know About The El Chapo Trial and El Chapo’s Top Gun Lawyer

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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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Cravath’s Steps Towards The Firm’s Gender Equality: Helping Lead the Way

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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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Coffee & Cancer Warning Trial Halted in Appellate Court

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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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