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A new force is born, A New Latin American imperialism? Oil and the tactical alliance with Cuba has allowed Venezuela to move from being a country with little international journey to lead a bloc of countries every day has more weight in the entire hemisphere.

Two Holland & Hart attorneys - including Cliff Stricklin, the lead prosecutor in the Joseph Nacchio case - are moving to Holme Roberts & Owen LLP.

U.S. law firms earning the most profits per partner apparently don't have the time or the inclination for blogging.

Dwight Fettig joins the firm of his friends Lendell Porterfield and Andrew Lowenthal.

Three partners from Cooley Godward Kronish LLP are headed to Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP 's East Palo Alto office.

As firms continue to find more creative ways to engage underutilized lawyers, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has created an alternative to layoffs.

The Young Broadcasting assets are to be auctioned off July 14 in New York, according to a report in the Tennessean newspaper, which says the company will be sold or reorganized as a whole, according to its attorneys at the Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal law offices.

July 7, 2009 Deutsche Bank Spied on Board Members and Shareholder Oh dear lord : An investigation commissioned by Deutsche Bank has revealed that Germany's largest bank spied on several of its management board members, supervisory board members and on at least one shareholder.

Barnes & Thornburg , which recently acquired the 22-attorney Parsinen Law Firm, has brought on five new attorneys.

Sometimes it helps to know the right people. Before joining Polsinelli Shughart three years ago, Doug Kramer practiced commercial litigation for five years at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. There he got to know a former deputy attorney general named Eric Holder, who joined Covington in 2001.Holder, of course, is now attorney general of the ...

Seyfarth Shaw , which last week brought on a new team of corporate and technology partners from Alston & Bird , is expanding its Atlanta office with lawyers poached from Troutman Sanders .

Law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP and McKee Nelson LLP have signed a letter of intent to combine, the firms said Monday.

In SASH v. ROSAHN, ESQ ., as the Supervising Attorney for the Parole Revocation Unit of Defendant The Legal Aid Society, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 2009 U.S. Dist.

Months after a Massachusetts state agency dismissed a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint against Bingham McCutchen filed by a former associate, the firm has been slapped with a civil suit by Michelle Moor, who is seeking damages for allegedly being drugged at a holiday party by a Bingham staffer.

The day Al Franken officially, finally won Minnesota's U.S. Senate race he sent an e-mail to hundreds of thousands of supporters.

Former American International Group Inc. chief Maurice R. Greenberg was grilled on the witness stand for seven days over the past two weeks in a dispute over the ownership of a large block of AIG shares controlled by Mr.

Jason Murtagh, 34, recently remarked that for him, in the matter of Haywood v. Drown , the most nerve-wracking moment was when the U.S. Supreme Court granted writ of certiorari on June 16 of last year.

Safety Advocates Warn: U.S. Road Death Reduction Largely Due to Economic Recession, Gas Prices -- Passage of Priority Safety Legislation Needed More than Ever Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety tool name close tool goes here WASHINGTON, July 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is a statement of Judith Lee Stone, President, Advocates for ...

And liquidation is Draconian," GM's lawyer Harvey Miller told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber.

Baker Botts , which in March laid off an undisclosed number of attorneys , has opened a new office in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and is expanding its other two Middle Eastern offices in Dubai, UAE and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.