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Lawyers: Be On Guard Against E-Mail Scams
Beware of e-mails asking you to receive and clear checks for amounts owed to the sender by American companies, with a substantial percentage supposedly going to lawyers. The latest scam comes from a purported Minnesota lawyer making inquiries on behalf of a large Chinese manufacturer.Leading Chinese Firm Opens Silicon Valley Office
Following the lead of China's largest law firm, Beijing-based Jun He Law Offices has opened a Silicon Valley office. Jun He has hired three lawyers from U.S. firms for the new West Coast outpost: IP partners James Zhu and Zhaohui "Zoe" Wang, previously the managing partners of Perkins Coie's Beijing and Shanghai offices, and Steven Cui, a former IP of counsel in Jones Day's Beijing office. China's largest domestic law firm, King & Wood, opened in Silicon Valley at the tail end of the tech bubble in 2001.Attorney helps export company secure $40 million credit facility
Daniel Novela represented Montachem International, an international distributor of plastic resins with a global headquarters in Weston, in obtaining a $40 million credit facility from PNC Bank.View more book results for the query "*"
Younger female lawyers play by their own rules
Even 20 years ago, few women managed to combine family and success at a big firm. But today's middle-aged lawyers pushed to make it happen. They worked nonstop, staying up half the night with a brief in one hand and a crying baby in the other, and they succeeded. But today's younger female lawyers prefer to take a different route. "You don't need to work, work, work and then have a family," says 33-year-old Erica Leatham. So she quit her large firm and, with some colleagues and friends, formed her own firm.Apple Can Help App Developers in Patent Fight With Lodsys, Judge Rules
Michael Karr, a college student in Las Vegas, hoped to make some side income from a raunchy iPhone app called "69 Positions." What Karr didn't foresee was that the app would drag him into costly patent litigation with Lodsys Group, a prolific patent troll.Appeals court restricts challenges to asset freezes
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has sided with prosecutors on a key asset forfeiture issue that has divided courts across the country.In an April 26 ruling, the court said defendants can't point to weaknesses in the government's case as a means to fight prosecutors' attempt to freeze their assets after indictment but before trial.Who's the Shark Now? 'Candygram' Case Delivers Good News for Criminal Defense
Big wins are so rare for defense lawyers in federal court that a victory can generate a lot of buzz -- sometimes even earning a nickname. A recent 3rd Circuit case has come to be known as "the Candygram case" -- a reference to a classic "Saturday Night Live" skit from the 1970s. The majority held that evidence of drugs in a hotel room should have been suppressed because police had used "subterfuge" to gain entry by falsely claiming that they were first "room service," then maintenance workers.Trending Stories
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