Silk Road Was Used by More than 100,000 Users to Buy and Sell Hundreds of Kilograms of Illegal Drugs and Other Unlawful Goods and Services LawFuel.c0m – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the indictment in Manhattan federal court of ROSS WILLIAM ULBRICHT, a/k/a “Dread Pirate […]
Everyone advertising anywhere wants nothing more than a viral advertisement – or a Super Bowl viral advertisement. But how does a lawyer do it? A short video from personal injury attorney Jamie Casino has done so, with heavymetal music and words from the Old Testament. Casino calls his video “the most metal personal injury commercial
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LawFuel.com – International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised the underwriters on the global offering and listing of HK Electric Investments on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, which commenced trading today. The firm also advised lenders on the provision of two syndicated loans (worth a cumulative total of approximately US$4.8bn) in connection with the
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The question of who sold Philip Seymour Hoffman his drugs, of which there were almost 50 envelopes of heroin beside the body, is being followed up with an extensive NYPD search of the city to find his dealer. The actor, 46, died on Sunday from an apparent drug overdose, with a syringe in his arm
LawFuel.com – The Defendant Recruited Drivers and Passengers to Crash Vehicles Into Cars Being Driven by Innocent Victims In Order to Submit Bogus Insurance Claims Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Prince’s “New Girl” performance at the Super Bowl created a stir, playing himself in Fox’s “New Girl” episode going to air after the lopsided game. Prince may provide relationship advice for the main characters in the show but there are legal troubles out there for “New Girl” too. A lawsuit from screenwriters Stephanie Counts and
LawFuel.com – Davis Polk is advising the special committee of the board of directors of SWS Group, Inc. in connection with an unsolicited acquisition proposal from Hilltop Holdings Inc. to acquire the outstanding common stock that Hilltop does not already own for $7.00 per share. The special committee will carefully evaluate Hilltop’s unsolicited proposal and
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Sarosh Zaiwalla became the first Asian to qualify as a lawyer in the UK he would hardly have thought he would one day be hiring a future Prime Minister (even if it was only Tony Blair) and also setting up the first “non-white” law firm in The City with a firm turning over £3 million.
The Italian judge who (once again) found Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito guilty of murder is to face some tough questioning himself after making inappropriate comments about the tactics used by defense lawyers. The comments could result in an appeal, Sollecito’s lawyer has been reported as saying. Sollecito’s lawyers are to seek
UK’s liberalisation of legal services under its “Tesco Law” has seen an equity group take a stake in the adminstrative services arm of an offshore law firm, Ogier. Last week insurers Direct Line and accountancy group PwC won licences to provide legal services. The Ogier deal sees it separate its adminstrative arm to the
