The changing world of law firm marketing was brought into sharp focus with the relaxation of marketing for lawyers in Iowa, which has hitherto been a state with some of the toughest rules about legal marketing anywhere in the US. Suddenly, as of 1 January, Iowa law firms are adding marketing experts to the […]
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LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com – US Law News – A former investment fund manager and radio personality who admitted bilking investors out of millions of dollars by falsely promising to purchase corporate bonds backed by the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was sentenced this afternoon to 120 months in federal prison. John
LawFuel.com – UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM LANDBERG, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of West End Financial Advisors, LLC (“West End”), was sentenced today to 42 months in prison in connection with an
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Lawfuel.com – Global Law News Service – Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced that the firm’s Tax Transactions & Consulting practice was ranked as a tier one tax transactional firm in North America and tier two in France in International Tax Review’s (ITR) 2013 “World’s Leading Transactional Firms Survey,” a comprehensive guide to
LawFuel.com – Global law firm Mayer Brown advised a consortium of banks on the issuance and placement of a EUR 500m Mortgage Pfandbrief of Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG due 18 March 2020. The EUR 500m Mortgage Pfandbrief issued on 18 March 2013 has a fixed interest rate of 1.50 per cent. p.a. The syndicate of banks
LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TAI NGUYEN was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to commit securities fraud and wire fraud in connection with an insider trading scheme in which NGUYEN, the president
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LawFuel.com -DLA Piper announced that Zhaoyang “Paul” Li has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice and Patent Prosecution group as a partner in the San Francisco office. Li focuses his practice on complex IP matters, particularly those involving Chinese companies, including patent prosecution, patent infringement assessment opinions, patent right licensing agreements,
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Top law schools for making money? What could be a more intellectually rigorous question for an impending law school graduate, or under-graduate, than that? First there was the US News & World Report Law School rankings but now something far more impressive and important: the Forbes rankings focused on law firm starting salaries. What are
The Steubenville rape trial has created some unique attention through social media, demonstrating again the ability of bloggers, social media commentators, observers and others to create a firestorm of publicity and opinion – informed or otherwise – in respect of a significant trial. The rape involved two high school footballers who were convicted of the
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Google and SEO experts are increasingly focused on “social signals” – the amount of time and effort that your firm puts into the various social media that increasingly play an important part in Google’s ranking for websites. The use of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social signals, including the time firms
