International law firm Dechert LLP have announced that Thomas P. Vartanian, David L. Ansell, and Robert H. Ledig have joined the firm as partners in the Washington, D.C. office. All three were previously partners at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver...
The Risk Professional: law firm's records plundered for identities used for frauds
The value of client data is demonstrated by the case of a San Jose law firm. A clerk stole data and used it to forge credit applications. And it was not the only professional business targeted.
Legal Professional : "estate planning advisers" were running a ponzi scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency court order to shut down a Ponzi scheme targeting retirees in California and Illinois by inviting them to estate planning seminars and later coaxing them to buy promissory notes fo...
The Legal Professional: US bankruptcies rise in 2009
The USA lumps all kinds of insolvency proceedings under the single heading of "bankruptcy" and so its headline figures are misleading. But behind the headline figure - that there was a near-30% increase in 2009 as against 2008, there a...
Legal Professional: Australian liquidator suspended for conflict
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained the suspension by the Companies Auditors and Liquidators Disciplinary Board of Dean Royston McVeigh for 18 months, preventing him acting as liquidator or voluntary administrator.
Australian law firm Clayton Utz has, this morning, announced that 14 partners have resigned. They will join a newly established office of London-...
Legal Professional: Attorney guilty of misappropriating clients' funds
A lawyer in Orange County, California, has pleaded guilty to the misappropriation of more than USD 2 million awarded to claimants in a class acti...
BizLawCentral: US law firm removed from record due to conflict
A US judge has removed one of the USA's largest law firms, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, from representing First American Title Insurance C...
BizLawCentral: Singapore to improve training for lawyers, aid returnees and transferees.
The Law Society of Singapore has announced a shake up in the training regime and measures to help those returning to practice and foreign lawyers...
BizLawCentral: swapping shares for support in litigation
When a court in Texas found in favour of a small Toronto based software company against Microsoft, the success was shared by the owners of the co...
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