A Washington, D.C., jury Friday awarded a former Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal partner at least some of the compensation he claims is owed to him by the firm. The verdict marked the end of a bitter two-and-a-half-year battle over the firm’s partnership agreement and compensation policy. Jurors in the D.C. Superior Court trial stemming from […]
Archives Claims It Never Has Been Asked to Maintain Records From Obama’s Days as Legislator WASHINGTON, DC–(LAWFUEL – March 27, 2008) – Judicial Watch, the public interest group that forced the release of Hillary Clinton’s daily White House schedule on March 20, announced today that the preliminary results of an investigation into Senator Barack Obama’s
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LawJobsPipeline.com – Legal jobs blog – Many media have wanted to know precisely whether Barack Obama’s job was as a legal professor at the University of Otago, or was he just exaggerating his CV? The University answer the query. Yes, he was a professor. See the LawJobsPipeline for the text.
Thrillers thrive on villains and heroes, and usually these characters are not overly complicated; writers don’t want to confuse or slow the plot. In John Grisham’s page turners the villains are corporate titans and their lawyers, and the plucky, idealistic heroes (played in the movie versions by Tom Cruise in “The Firm” and Julia Roberts
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Ron Paul supporters may have succeeded in pushing their agenda at the state GOP convention, the Star-Telegram reports. Supporters of Paul, a congressman from Surfside who got 4.5 percent of the votes in the presidential primary, tried to overwhelm the senate district-level conventions by sheer numbers. The party regulars, aware that Paul’s supporters won a
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U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers Inc. appears to have been a victim of a fraud in which swindlers used forged documents from one of Japan’s biggest trading companies to bilk it out of as much as $250 million. Late last year, a unit of the New York-based investment bank issued loans to a fund run
If Daniel Hurstel’s schedule on Thursday, March 27, was anything to go by, the Paris legal market is in decent health. The head of Willkie Farr & Gallagher’s office there, Hurstel was frantically attempting to juggle two deals while explaining parts of the U.S. firm’s strategy in London to a visitor. The Paris mood is
Local Attorney Named to Largest Southern California Defense Organization LOS ANGELES–LAWFUEL – Legal Announcements–Randall J. Dean, a partner at Los Angeles-based law firm Chapman, Glucksman, Dean, Roeb & Barger, is announced as the incoming president of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel (ASCDC), the nation’s largest state civil defense organization. Dean’s one-year term officially
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HOUSTON – LAWFUEL – Legal Announcements – Ricardo Garcia-Moreno, an experienced corporate practitioner, has joined the Houston office of Haynes and Boone, LLP as a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Securities Practice Group. “Ricardo possesses substantial legal skills and a breadth of corporate practice experience,” said Ken Broughton, the Houston administrative partner. “Haynes and
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NEW YORK March 25, 2008 – Lawfuel – Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP represented Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. as part of an investment group which also includes Goldman Sachs in a comprehensive recapitalization of MoneyGram International, Inc. (NYSE: MGI), it was announced today. The transaction, comprised of several different types of financing, including preferred
