Former Miami Dolphins cheerleader Lynn Aronberg never hid her deep, dark secret that she admires Donald Trump and his family and the conservative values they represent. After all, Aronberg’s two-year-old yellow Labrador is named Ivanka. One of the 36-year-old’s favorite photos of all times is a shot of her with the president at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s …
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'Pharma bro' Martin Shkreli convicted of fraud
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Shkreli’s lawyer sought to portray him as a troubled genius Former pharmaceutical chief executive Martin Shkreli has been found guilty of three counts of securities fraud. A New York City jury cleared him on five other counts after five days of deliberations. He was on trial in relation to …
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Developer wins right to intervene in affordable housing litigation
CLOSE Montvale Council votes down rezoning for Mercedes. Sarah Nolan/NorthJersey.com Mercedes-Benz USA property eyed for 1,000 housing units The Mercedes campus in Montvale.(Photo: NorthJersey.com file photo) MONTVALE – A developer seeking to build 1,000 units of housing on the soon-to-be-vacant Mercedes-Benz USA property will be permitted to intervene in the borough’s affordable housing litigation, a …
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Man handed £175k ordered to give ex-wife £100k in divorce | Daily … – Daily Mail
Andrew Kerslake regards the settlement as ‘dirty money’ and has put it in a trust A judge has ordered a father to give his estranged wife £100,000 from the compensation he received for suffering sexual abuse as a child. Andrew Kerslake, 47, was given £175,000 by the Government but regarded the cash as ‘dirty money’ …
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Shifting sands: The data breach litigation landscape in 2017 – Westlaw Insider (blog)
The smiling red skull glowing from the computer monitor is a rather rude indication that your computer or information system has been attacked. Upon further investigation, you learn that a significant amount of personal, company and other protected data have been hacked. Can these actions result in a lawsuit that survives a motion to dismiss? …
HSBC, UBS settle US rate-rigging litigation; 10 banks’ total payout tops $408 million – Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) – HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L) and UBS Group AG (UBSG.S) have each agreed to pay $14 million to settle private U.S. litigation accusing them of rigging an interest rate benchmark used in the $483 trillion derivatives market. The preliminary settlements were disclosed in filings on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in …
Go With Professional Lawyers To Take Care Of Business Litigation Issues
Are you a business owner or involved in any business affairs? If you are nodding your head for yes, issues that arise every now and then may lead to business litigation. Most of them are related to financial, property and contract problems. This type of litigation involves business legal matters that could be taken to …
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Firms Offer Litigation Insurance So Clients Can Hedge Bets in Court – Bloomberg Big Law Business
Stephen Rathkopf was entering the twilight of his career as a partner at Herrick Feinstein, and looking to resolve one of his biggest cases: Years earlier, he’d secured a $300 million trial judgment for a client, of which his firm was entitled to 10 percent for its fees. But with the case tied up in …
Discovery: The Trenches Of Litigation
One of my colleagues told me early on in my career that litigation is often won or lost in discovery. It took me months of working to understand what he meant; to me as a young attorney litigation was won or lost on a motion to dismiss, a motion for summary judgment, or at trial, …
Banco Popular investors hire attorneys to explore litigation options – Financial Times
A group of investors burnt in the failure of Banco Popular have hired international law firm Quinn Emanuel to explore litigation options. The bondholder group, which includes Pimco, Anchorage, Algebris and Ronit Capital, make up a “material percentage” of holders of the bank’s junior bonds. Santander acquired Banco Popular for the symbolic sum of €1 …