WilmerHale Senior Associate Matthew Ferraro has authored an article on disinformation for CNN Business Perspectives. Last month, a video that appeared to show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slurring her words went viral on social media. This video, which was edited and slowed for effect, was viewed millions of times, and political opponents used it to question Pelosi’s […]
Powered by LawFuel – Clifford Chance has launched the first apprenticeship scheme dedicated to training legal project management experts, as the firm expands the use of world-class project management on its clients’ most critical work. The apprenticeship will tap a new source of recruits, at a time when law firms face a tight market for
Powered by LawFuel – Baker McKenzie is delighted to announce today new global aspirational targets set at 40:40:20 per cent gender diversity, to represent 40% women, 40% men and 20% flexible (women, men or non-binary persons). This target applies to Partners, senior business professionals, Firm committee leadership and candidate pools for recruitment. Baker McKenzie has
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Slaughter & May is the latest major law firm in London to life its associate pay, which is £100,000 including bonuses The pay increase follows recent moves by firms in The City, including Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Clifford Chance which both lifted their pay for newly-qualified (NQ) pay to £100,000 as the pay war started
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LOS ANGELES – A former deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was sentenced today to 12 months in federal prison for lying to FBI agents about the beating of a handcuffed man that took place in 2011 at Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. Byron Dredd, 37, was found guilty by a
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“When my lawyers were approached by Mr Craig’s QC asking for our consent to the joint sailing holiday, I felt I was damned if I did, damned if I didn’t. The hearing had finished – we were just waiting for the decision – so there was no possibility of recusal. We feared that non-consent would be seen as insulting to the judge. I was not aware
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Women lawyers may have their challenges in the law, but when they rise to them there can be an unstoppable momentum, such as the two power lawyers who lead the Big Law merger of Bryan Cave and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP). The combined firm now has a turnover of $1 billion with 560 partners across
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John Bowie – The Supreme Court has dismissed an application for recall of the judgment in the Jordan Williams v. Colin Craig case finding “some force” in the view that the delay in raising the matter “is both tactical and disqualifying”. However the Court did not hold an oral hearing despite some conflict as to
LOS ANGELES –Powered by LawFuel – A Downey-based attorney pleaded guilty this afternoon to a federal narcotics distribution charge for illegally selling more than 1,000 oxycodone pills after offering the opioid drugs for sale on Craigslist. Jackie Ferrari, 36, a resident of Downey, pleaded guilty to one count of illegally distributing oxycodone. According to court
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that STEVEN L. HENNING, a certified public accountant who was a Partner at a Manhattan accounting firm, pled guilty today to participating in two wire fraud schemes. In the first, he falsely claimed to have entered into multimillion-dollar intellectual
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