Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has settled civil fraud claims against TOWER MAINTENANCE CORP. (“TOWER”), a Long Island-based steel painting company. The settlement resolves the United States’ allegations that TOWER fraudulently obtained payments on two federally funded construction projects by causing […]
NESCONSET, N.Y., Aug. 16, 2021 LawFuel – Powering Lawyers— Answering Legal, a 24/7 phone answering service exclusively for the legal community, announced its participation in a new buyer’s guide from Legal Tech Publishing, which focuses on virtual receptionist, chat and text messaging and CRM solutions. The guide is produced in partnership with Above The Law and spotlights innovative legal technology
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The term ‘legal influencer’ is probably a misnomer, as these people are not like the Kardashians of the Internet (although Kim Kardashian has legal pretensions, of course) where they seek to endorse and pocket indecent sums of money from their ‘influence’. Remember, they are (mostly) lawyers, or former lawyers. Or legal academics. Or lawyer
The issue of how a house is handled in a divorce is one of the key issues for determination after child custody – and even pet custody issues are dealt with. The situation is common enough, given that the National Center of Health Statistics reported that in 2020 there were over 2,015,000 divorces, being
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Quinn Emanuel Silicon Valley Managing Partner Victoria Maroulis was featured in the AmLaw Litigation Daily for doing her part to broaden the pipeline into the legal profession. Maroulis, who arrived in the United States in 1988 as political refugee from the Soviet Union, worked her way through remedial reading courses at Ohlone College, a community college in Fremont, CA,
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The #MeToo movement has been a pre-Covid issue that continues today with continued focus upon sexual harassment issues, including in the Justice System. The recent issues surrounding Prince Andrew and Andrew Cuomo have further highlighted sexual harassment, but there is a firm suggestion in many quarters that the US Justice System (and perhaps others, too)
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Martin Ruiz Targeted Elderly Clients in New Mexico in Long-Running Scheme Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Peter C. Fitzhugh, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), announced the unsealing of a Complaint charging MARTIN RUIZ with investment adviser
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Travis Schultz* Earlier this year, one of my team members relayed a conversation he’d had with a well-intentioned colleague who was grappling with issues around his client’s equal opportunity briefing policy. He wanted to expand the number of female barristers on their firm’s panel and was looking for names of female barristers that could be
Kennedys in Australia is pleased to announce the latest phase of its expansion with the launch of a Perth office to cater to the firm’s strong national growth throughout 2020. The opening of the new office, to be led by new partner Jonathan Wyatt with a starting team of nine, reflects Kennedys’ focus on expanding
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