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Sharebeast Site Owner Pleads Guilty to Copyright Charges

Artur Sargsyan has pleaded guilty to one felony count of criminal copyright infringement related to his ownership and administration of the file-sharing website.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Three Am Law 100 Firms Lift Off With Big Houston Rockets Sale

Baker Botts, DLA Piper and White & Case are advising on the record-setting $2.2 billion sale of the National Basketball Association's Houston Rockets from former lawyer Leslie Alexander to casino and hospitality billionaire Tilman Fertitta.
44 minute read

The American Lawyer

Loeb & Loeb's Latest Lateral Hire Has Some College Football History

Trusts and estates litigator Rodney Lee joined Loeb & Loeb's Los Angeles office last month from a mid-size firm in Beverly Hills. But Lee's new partners may remember him for making one of the greatest catches in UCLA football history in a game that helped the Bruins defeat archrival USC in 1996.
11 minute read

The American Lawyer

Maria Sharapova's Return Has No. 1 Fan in Fox Rothschild Partner

Maria Sharapova is set to take the court Friday night at the U.S. Open in New York, the latest step in a return to the court for the five-time Grand Slam champion following a 15-month ban for taking the banned substance meldonium. Cheering her on will be Fox Rothschild's litigation co-chair John Haggerty.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

NY Judge Says Lynyrd Skynyrd Film Violates 'Blood Oath' on Band Name

A federal judge in New York has blocked the distribution of a film created with help from a former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer saying it violates a "blood oath" surviving band members made not to exploit the band's name and history.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

2 Pari-Mutuels Targeted Over Controversial Card Games

Gambling regulators have filed complaints alleging two pari-mutuel cardrooms failed to comply with requirements for "designated player games," after Gov. Rick Scott and the Seminole Tribe reached an agreement about the controversial card games this summer.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Blood Oath' Forever Enjoins Lynyrd Skynyrd Biopic, Judge Rules

Under the terms of a consent decree borne of a "blood oath" undertaken 40 years ago by the surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the band's former drummer can never produce a biopic about the band's final years, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

This Ex-Dewey Lawyer Wants to Save Your Fantasy Football Team

Former Dewey & LeBoeuf and Jones Day associate Frank Salzano is trying to help his star client—Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott—get back on the field for the start of the National Football League season, now less than two weeks away.
40 minute read

The American Lawyer

The Rally Cat Isn't the Story, But His Big Mouth Lawyer Is

Major League Baseball's St. Louis Cardinals stepped into a minefield in a viral custody battle over the so-called Rally Cat. How could the team know that the lawyer on the other side of its feline fight would have a history garnering outsize media attention for trivial cases?
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

NFL? The Premier League is Here—and So Are the Lawyers

The National Football League season is approaching in the U.S., but across the pond, lawyers are reaping the benefits from a record-setting summer for soccer players in the U.K. Several firms have scored big on deals in the English Premier League, where clubs are setting new spending records in the search for talent.
4 minute read

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