January 29, 2018 – DLA Piper announced today that Michael Garfinkel and Miles Cooley have joined the firm’s Media, Sport and Entertainment practice as partners in Los Angeles. Garfinkel, who has spent more than 25 years as an entertainment industry litigator, joins DLA Piper from Perkins Coie LLP, where he served as its firmwide chair
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DEREK BROOMES, the former president and chief executive officer (“CEO”) of a nonprofit housing organization based in Harlem, New York (the “Housing Nonprofit”), pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin Nathanial Fox to abusing his position at the
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Shaun Weaver – Kardashian Law has a ring to it, wouldn’t you agree. And given that Robert Kardashian Sr, one of OJ Simpson’s ‘Dream Team’ was a prominent lawyer, it should not perhaps surprise anyone to know that Kim Kardashian West has achieved a legal internship. Yet it does somehow. Except that it is with
Liz Swann Miller, the noted naturopath and nutritional author, recount5s a life changing event that occurred in Africa, which lead to the development of her popular, new ‘Red Tea Detox’ book. The development of the book resulted from an incident affecting the author in Africa, which almost cost her her life and lead to the
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Photo by LinkedIn Sales Navigator on Unsplash What are the liability risks for Airbnb property owners? How can you protect and secure your home, your finances, your livelihood? What can you do to minimize risk and ensure the success of your business? Whether you occasionally rent out a room or have multiple properties to manage,
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The art of story-telling is a key to bonding with your audience but to achieve that via Twitter is something of a higher art, as barrister Jamie Susskind has demonstrated with a series of tweets that have garnered growing popularity over nothing less than a commuter’s sneeze. You read right. Susskind, son of legal futurologist
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No amount of legal training could have prepared Rachael Denhhollander for what lay ahead in blowing the whistle on serial sex abuser Larry Nassar. Ms Denhollander, an attorney in Louisville Kentucky, wrote in the NY Times about taking on the power of the US Olympic Committee and the cunning and predator expertise of Larry Nassar
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Ogletree Deakins – As Chief Diversity and Professional Development Officer at Ogletree Deakins, I have seen that law firms specifically, and the legal industry, generally, face external pressures from clients, outside counsel, and diversity groups to maintain diversity initiatives. Recently, some of that pressure has been coming from sources internal to law firms—namely, their own
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New York, NY – (January 16, 2018) – Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced today that Joseph J. Palermo has joined the firm as Chief Operating Officer. Palermo will work closely with firm leadership to provide executive oversight of the firm’s day-to-day operations and input on the firm’s business strategy, with a focus on organizational processes and professional business support
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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 Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that ONYEKACHI EMMANUEL OPARA was extradited from South Africa. In December 2016, OPARA was arrested in South Africa on
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