The American Bar Association’s recent webinar “The Ethics of Legal Marketing in a Social Media Age” indicated that lawyers using Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlook need to proceed with caution. Contact with prospective clients in real time, confidentiality issues, endorsements and testimonials – they all offer potential traps, as the ABANow site […]
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Davis Polk is advising Warner Chilcott plc in connection with its approximately $8.5 billion acquisition by Actavis, Inc. in a stock-for-stock transaction. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2013. Warner Chilcott is a specialty pharmaceutical company currently focused on the women’s healthcare, gastroenterology, urology and dermatology segments of the
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The pass rate requirements for US law schools may become tougher if American Bar Association changes are made. It appears certain that the ABA committee that is responsible for supervising law school accreditation stardards will endorse a rule that requires a minimum 80 per cent of graduates to pass the bar examination within two years
Which law firms would rank among the very best in terms of universal admiration by their peers? It’s Cravath’s according to a new book. The question is one that arose in a new book “What It Takes: Seven Secrets of Success from the World’s Greatest Professional Firms” By Charles Ellis. The author looked at what
Judy Clarke is an unlikely death row lawyers, but she has helped some of America’s worst criminals escape the death penalty and has now been appointed to the legal team to defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston bombing suspect. She has previously represented the famed “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski, along with Jared Lee Loughner, sentenced to life
LawFuel.com – Are there likely to be a further growth in US law firms seeking more exposure to the Middle East, following Baker & McKenzie’s recently announced tie-up with the Dubai-based Habib Al Mulla law firm? The Baker & McKenzie merger, which takes effect on 1 July, creates the fifth office for the mega-firm in
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LawFuel.com – Dechert partners Allison Fumai and Laura Swihart have been named to the Rising Stars Shortlist for the Euromoney Legal Media Group Americas Women in Business Law Awards, which honor female lawyers for their professional accomplishments, advocacy and influence. Fumai has been nominated in the corporate category, and Swihart has been nominated in the
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Kareem Serageldin and His Co-Conspirators Concealed As Much As A Half-Billion Dollars from Subprime Mortgage-Related Losses LawFuel.com – American Law News – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced the guilty plea of KAREEM SERAGELDIN, the former Managing Director/Global Head of Structured Credit in the Investment Banking
LawFuel.com – US Law News Daily – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EARL SETH DAVID was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to five years in prison for running an immigration fraud mill through his Manhattan-based law practice. As part of the scheme, DAVID and
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LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that THOMAS C. CONRADT, a former stock broker at a securities trading firm (“Securities Trading Firm-1”), pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to charges arising from his involvement in an insider trading scheme. The alleged scheme involved the
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