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David Tamman, a former Nixon Peabody securities partner who was fired while under investigation for allegedly falsifying documents as part of a Ponzi scheme, will have to go to trial in October, despite his attorney’s pleas to expedite the proceedings so that Tamman, now a solo in L.A., can get back to work. View full [...]

Edwards Wildman Law Firm Names Shuftan as Managing PartnerBusinessWeek31 (Bloomberg) — Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP, the 650- attorney US law firm, named Robert Shuftan as its new managing partner. Shuftan's appointment will take effect Feb. 2, the firm said today in a statement. Edwards Wildman also elected Laurence …and more » View full post on law [...]

Legal briefs: Weil Gotshal partner to manage Quinn Emanuel's new Washington officeWashington PostGroups funded by Legal Services to cut jobs in 2012 Legal aid groups that receive funding from the District-based Legal Services Corp. plan to lay off a collective 393 employees this year as a result of a 14 percent cut to the LSC's [...]

SCORE and Rocket Lawyer(TM) Partner to Provide Legal Resources to EntrepreneursMarketWatch (press release)25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — SCORE, – www.score.org – America's premier source of free and confidential small business advice, has partnered with Rocket Lawyer, a comprehensive online legal service, to offer useful legal tools, templates and …and more » View full post on [...]

Goodwin Procter New York real estate capital markets partner Robert Insolia will become only the fifth managing partner in the Boston-based firm’s 100-year history as of Feb. 1, and the first from outside Goodwin’s hometown. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

A former Stroock & Stroock & Lavan partner who claims he was wrongly denied pension benefits because he took his practice to another firm must settle his dispute in arbitration, a New York judge has ruled. Michael Perlis sued Stroock just two weeks after he jumped to Locke Lord with five other attorneys. Perlis also [...]

Prominent trial lawyer Robert Bennett, who said last week that he would defend the operators of file-sharing website Megaupload against charges that they had violated federal copyright and online piracy laws, has reportedly dropped the case due to a client conflict involving his firm. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Former Macfarlanes banking partner Francis Bridgeman has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after claiming he had been kidnapped in order to avoid being arrested for a DUI-related offense in 2010. Bridgeman was also ordered to pay £4,200 in costs and has been banned from driving for 18 months.Visit International News View full post [...]

While alleging that his wife’s affair with soon-to-be-former Edwards Wildman Palmer managing partner Walter Reed cost him and a colleague their jobs, Lawrence Cohen’s suit also claims Reed put the affair ahead of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge’s interests amid merger talks last year with Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon. View full post on Law.com [...]

Leslie “Les” Jacobs, a former senior antitrust partner in Thompson Hine’s Cleveland office, was sentenced Tuesday to serve a year and a day in prison in connection with his guilty plea on a federal tax fraud charge, according to a press release issued by the Justice Department. View full post on Law.com – Newswire