LONDON–Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Maria Isabel (“Marie”) Manley has joined the firm in London as a partner in its global Life Sciences practice. She will lead the Life Sciences team in London. Ms. Manley comes to Sidley from Bristows LLP, where she was the leader of its Life Sciences regulatory department. “Marie’s
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A law firm report card is a good thing. Much like a child’s school report card telling a parent how school is going, a law firm report card can inform firm leadership about its progress, shortfalls, and areas that need improvement. In these days of industry disruption and heightened competition, periodic assessments can give a
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that PETER G. JOHNSON and PETER B. JOHNSON pled guilty today to defrauding a group of lenders (the “Banks”) by submitting false “borrowing base” reports designed to secure and maintain a $400 million line of credit for their cocoa
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The Stormy Daniels legal complaint, published here on CNN’s site, shows that Stephanie Clifford (aka ‘Stormy’) is claiming the NDA was invalid because Trump never signed it. Only a few weeks before the 2016 election, Cohen paid Clifford $130,000, an admission Cohen had made in a statement last month. Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit cites multiple cases of
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March 8, 2018 – DLA Piper announced today that Scott Kapp has joined the firm’s Real Estate practice as a partner in Chicago. Kapp represents family offices, entrepreneurial clients and a diversified group of private companies at various stages of development, including private equity and venture-backed companies. He provides strategic advice on both legal and
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The strongly worded complaint to the Judicial Conduct Commissioner by litigation funder LPF Group, as reported in LawFuel last year, has been responded to with the Litigation Funder deciding to “take the matter no further at this point in time.” Litigation Funding Group director Phil Newland wrote a nine page complaint to the JCC in
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CHICAGO—Executives from LegalShield, one of North America’s leading providers of affordable legal plans and the IDShield identity theft solution for individuals, families and small businesses, hosted an experiential legal technology workshop during the 2018 ABA TECHSHOW, held March 7-10 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. David Coffey, Chief Digital Officer, Keri Norris, Senior Vice President Legal
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Howick lawyer Richard Galbraith (left) didn’t know what he was up for when he started his online conveyancing-tracking programme KeyTrack way back in 2003. Certainly spending over 1 million dollars on the programme and associated Start-Up costs was not something he contemplated. Now, 15 years later, the software is redesigned, rebuilt and rebooted with
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SAN DIEGO (March 5, 2018) – Morrison & Foerster partner Eric M. Acker has been named a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in North America. Mr. Acker was inducted into the college during the annual spring meeting that took place this past weekend in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Slaughter and May advised Google on the competition law aspects of its US$1.1 billion acquisition of certain assets of HTC Corporation (HTC) related to the design, engineering, certification and testing of smartphones. In particular, Google acquired certain assets of HTC, including employees and a non-exclusive licence for intellectual property rights of HTC. Announced on 21
