The gender disparity issue in the legal industry has been no better highlighted than in the lawsuit brought by female lawyers at law firm Chadbourne & Parke, which has now been settled after a history of twists and turns. A motion filed by the plaintffs to settle has been filed in recent days and the […]
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Davis Polk – Enforcement Division “Share Class Selection Disclosure Initiative” offers “favorable” settlement terms to advisers who self-report potential violations concerning Rule 12b-1 fees. Over the past several years, the Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations has placed an enhanced focus on identifying situations in which an adviser does not adequately disclose that it
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And now Chapman Tripp are ensnared in the #Metoo movement, with a report that one of the firm’s solicitor’s had sex with a law student at an Auckland University Law Students’ Society camp in 2012, which Chapman Tripp had sponsored. The firm said it had only just been made aware of the allegation and investigated
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Clifford Chance – Thomas Vinje Clifford Chance has published its fifth edition of its Global Antitrust Trends report bringing its unique mix of legal, economic and regulatory expertise to identify themes impacting domestic and international businesses. Antitrust challenges are growing across the world. Over 130 jurisdictions now have antitrust laws, and that number continues to
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Cronan, the Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced that EBERHARD REICHERT, a former executive at Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (“Siemens AG”), pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to pay $100 million in
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that BRANDON JONES, a/k/a “Brandon McGeer,” a/k/a “Brandon Jones-McGeer,” was convicted on all counts charged in a three-count Indictment of passing fictitious government obligations, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, following an eight-day jury trial presided over
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Robinson + Cole – By 2036, unmanned aerial systems (UAS or drones) will represent a $30 billion industry according to a new report released by the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and Avascent, “Think Bigger: Large Unmanned Systems and the Next Major Shift in Aviation.” Specifically, the report says that cargo and passenger service will represent
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Morrison & Foerster is advising private equity firm WM Partners, LP in its $700 million sale of Nutranext Holdings, LLC and its subsidiaries to The Clorox Company. WM Partners has been involved with Nutranext, a vertically-integrated developer, manufacturer, and marketer of leading dietary and nutritional supplements, since 2015. In that time, Nutranext nearly doubled its
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Mark Goodman and Ethan Miller will operate out of the Firm’s San Francisco / Palo Alto office, while Robin Samuel, Barry Thompson and Joe Ward will become founding Partners of our new Los Angeles office. All five joined from another international law firm. Colin Murray, North American Managing Partner for Baker McKenzie, said: “Our new
The New Zealand Law Society has welcomed legislation to give the Legal Complaints Review Office new powers that will assist in clearing a backlog of complaints involving lawyers. The legislation would also make the resolution of complaints more efficient and timely, the Law Society has told Parliament’s Justice Committee in a submission on the Tribunals
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