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Law Student Debt to Double by 2020

Law Student Debt to Double by 2020

The U.S. News and Official Guide data released information about 44,245 ABA law school graduates who acquired $3.6 billion in student loans in 2010. This number is up from the…

Miller & Chevalier Guiding Ex-Olympus CEO Woodford Through a Controversy

Miller & Chevalier Guiding Ex-Olympus CEO Woodford Through a Controversy

Michael Woodford, who is a British businessman that ousted as CEO of embattled Japanese camera and medical equipment maker, Olympus, in the month of October, resigned from the board of…

Maine Law Firms Grabbing Clients from Corporate Firms

Maine Law Firms Grabbing Clients from Corporate Firms

As the recession of 2008 hit, there were not a lot of industry leaders saying the recession was good for business. On the other side of things, quite a few…

Tougher Rules coming for Futures Firms

Tougher Rules coming for Futures Firms

In response to the collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd., futures firms are going to be restricted by a federal agency in regards to how they treat their clients’ cash.…

Leading Patent Litigator Joins Sheppard Mullin as Co-Chair of IP Practice Group

Leading Patent Litigator Joins Sheppard Mullin as Co-Chair of IP Practice Group

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP recently announced that Nagendra “Nick” Setty joined the firm as co-chair of the firm’s 70 attorney IP practice group.  He will work out of…

Legal and PR Bills for Penn State to Cost Millions

Legal and PR Bills for Penn State to Cost Millions

As news broke across the country about the sex abuse scandal at Penn State University, the school hired its first public relations firm. Then the school hired a second public…

Frank McCourt Battling Law Firm Involved in his Divorce

Frank McCourt Battling Law Firm Involved in his Divorce

In what has become a soap opera, the Los Angeles Dodgers saga involving owner Frank McCourt and his ex-wife Jamie, has now taken a very interesting turn. When the calendar…

Allen & Overy Announces Launch of Office In Istanbul

Allen & Overy Announces Launch of Office In Istanbul

Today, Allen & Overy announced the launch of an office in Istanbul. The move will capitalize on the increasing flow of work being undertaken in Turkey. According to statistics reported…

A Chastised Lawyer Lashes Out at Judge Posner

A Chastised Lawyer Lashes Out at Judge Posner

On Thanksgiving Day, while most everyone was either at home stuffing their faces with turkey, or out to eat somewhere, stuffing their face with turkey, other people were sitting at…

Chief of Criminal Division for U.S. Attorney’s Office Set to Join Munger, Tolles & Olson

Chief of Criminal Division for U.S. Attorney’s Office Set to Join Munger, Tolles & Olson

Munger, Tolles & Olson announced in recent days that John Owens, Chief of the Criminal Division for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of California, will join the…