Senior Venezuelan Banking Official Received at Least $5 Million in Bribes in Exchange for Directing Business to U.S. Defendants Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Leslie R. Caldwell, the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice, announced the guilty […]
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“The Interview” release has been stopped in the wake of terror threats from Sony’s hacker enemies. The hacking attack on Sony was believed to be in retaliation for the release of “The Interview,” a comedy about an assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un starring Seth Rogen and James Franco. Sony announced it
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Who can question Barbara Walters’ pick for the most fascinating person of 2014 – even when she’s picked a lawyer who married a heartthrob actor. In this case, of course, it’s Amal Clooney, or the former Amal Alamuddin. So how did the lawyer make the list? Already an accomplished international human rights attorney, the new
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Stephen Fairley at the Rainmaker Institute is highly experienced when it comes to law firm marketing issues, specializing in lead conversion for law firms. He recently published an article on the “3 c0mmon denominators” for lawyers who succeed in building their law firms, published in the National Law Review. As he points out after working
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The Sydney hostage crisis has seen lawyers and courts evacuated in the King Street Courts in Sydney’s CBD, along with staff in the New South Wales Crown Solicitors’ office. The siege and hostage-holding by at least one and probably at least two gunmen has seen the CBD area around the cafe occupied by the gunmen
Bill Cosby is counter-suing Judy Huth, the woman who alleges the comedian molested her at the Playboy Mansion around 1974, after Huth’s lawyer removed Cosby’s name and replaced it with the requisite “John Doe” nomenclature. However Cosby’s lawyer, Marty Singer has filed papers alleging that the claims of sexual molestation by Huth are “absolutely false,”
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that CHARLES A. BENNETT was arrested this morning on securities and wire fraud charges stemming from his scheme to defraud over
Innovation in the law firm business is a growing trend as profits are trimmed with increased competition and the market for law services has slumped in many areas. And so firms look increasingly to ways they can increase their innovation to drive profitability and service levels. For small Canadian law firm Conduit Law their efforts
Sony faces a class action lawsuit over its nightmare phone hacking scandal where employee information has been disclosed online and comments about and alternate identifies of stars. Since it’s not hard to come up with a new alias, the alias identities used include: Tom Hanks: “Harry Lauder” and “Johnny Madrid” Sarah Michelle Gellar: “Neely O’Hara”
We received an item for a New York attorney concerned at the Victoria Secrets’ fashion show and providing reasons why it should be – tongue kind-of in cheek – regarded as illegal or at least disregarded by normal people who don’t have girlfriends or wives who wear skimpy lingerie and wings. This is not meant
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