Good morning everyone. Here’s a look back at yesterday’s news… Nine IP lawyers from Fish & Richardson head for Bracewell & Giuliani… Bloomberg is set to unveil its new legal search engine… A new law makes it easier for foreign firms to open in South Korea… and Kenneth Glazer has joined K&L Gates…
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Bloomberg has been working on a database to rival Westlaw and Lexis for at least two years and the big coming out party is scheduled for the end of the month. You can take a sneak peek here. From the company’s website: “BLOOMBERG LAW is a legal, regulatory, and compliance research platform, offering a suite of news, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Bloomberg reports that while law firms in the US and UK are shrinking, their offices in China expanding. Twenty-eight foreign firms have opened offices in mainland China since September 2006, a 19% increase to 177 firms. The continued expansion comes as some of the largest U.S. and U.K. law firms cut jobs at home because of the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 26, 2008
Bloomberg has a story about the sheer chutzpah that disgraced lawyer Marc Dreier used to scam investors and charities out of $380 million. My favorite part describes how Dreier convinced officials that other firms backed his scam deals: As the U.S. Attorneys Office in Manhattan tells it, [Dreier] would lie his way into an accounting firm’s or [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Marc Dreier (center) with football ex-player Michael Strahan and actor William Shatner. No, really. Notice how this photo really plays up Dreier’s Oompa Loompa ancestry. The law firm Dreier LLP will seek bankruptcy protection after its founder was jailed for cheating hedge funds out of more than $100 million. Marc Dreier, who is being held on federal criminal charges, [...]
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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