The debacle encircling the BBC over the television “Top Gear” fracas involving Jeremy Clarkson has seen the lawyers enter the fray and Clarkson launching an expletive laden tirade against the corporation for destroying the top-rating show. Clarkson has hired major law firm Olswang and senior partner Mark Devereaux to represeent him at the BBC inquiry, […]
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LawFuel.com – Law News Daily – Racketeering Included Massive No-Fault Automobile Insurance Fraud Scheme, Securities Fraud Schemes, Money Laundering, and Operating Illegal Gambling Businesses Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MIKHAIL ZEMLYANSKY was found guilty yesterday on racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud
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The fiercely competitive dating market has seen competition on all fronts with dating sites offering a range of services for every possible person and requirement. Florida Attorney General Pam Biondi has sue Singles Plus, a South Carolina company, with making false claims about its success rates, matches and overall screening process. The Biondi press release
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Sedgwick LLP, the international Big Law firm, has lost dozens of attorneys last year, including 12 percent of its partners. Law360 reports the departures streaming from the firm, which his shifting its practice away from areas like intellectual property law and real estate to focus on what the firm says are its core areas of
The Los Angeles-based IP specialists Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s recent seminar on virtual currencies indicated the digital currency is here to stay, although bitcoins may not be the cryptocurrency de jour. Gibson Dunn partner Judith Alison Lee, based in the firm’s DC office said digital currency would remain a recurring trend. Lee is also the
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Ifrah Law – Nicole Kardell – Are you an American abroad living in perpetual fear of the IRS? Do you wake up every morning wondering if today you’ll receive a formidable notice that the taxman cometh? You are not alone. Expats around the world are facing (and fearing) the painful reality that the IRS’s global
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Like many publications involved in the legal media, the Lawyer in the UK has been asking why so few women make to senior roles? Specifically, The Lawyer asked, why do they not make senior management roles, noting that only eight women hold senior roles in the UK’s top 50 law firms. The whole gender issue
US Attorney Preet Bharara has announced the potential end of La Cosa Nostra with the guilty plea of former capo Daniel Pagano. The release from the US Attorney: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of DANIEL PAGANO, a Captain of the Genovese Organized
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Music-copying has been a rich source of legal work for many years, but the $7.4 million awarded to Marvin Gaye’s children over the Blurred Lines hit has also been a legal precedent hit. The jury made the award as Gaye’s daughter Nona wept and the family lawyer Nashville-based Richard Busch subsequently announced could have a chilling
We hear a lot about gender issues but what about ageism: when lawyers get “to old” to continue with their firm? Is it fair? After all, everyone ages differently and a lawyer with five or six decades of experience under his hor her belt can be as sharp and certainly more experienced than anyone else
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