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The Legal Professional: Gibraltar law firm's rocky business

It's almost six months since prosecutors in Gibraltar arrested Benjamin and Solomon Marrache of law firm Marrache and Co, alleging false accounting. That's a nice term for lying - and doing it in...

The Legal Professional: English Law Society's comments on money laundering due diligence

The Law Society of England and Wales has issued an e-mail circular to solicitors referring to acceptable documents for client identification in relation to money laundering. But is it sufficient?

The Legal Professional: Fried Frank financial institutions team decamp to Dechert

International law firm Dechert LLP have announced that Thomas P. Vartanian, David L. Ansell, and Robert H. Ledig have joined the firm as partners in the Washington, D.C. office. All three were pr...

The Risk Professional: law firm's records plundered for identities used for frauds

The value of client data is demonstrated by the case of a San Jose law firm. A clerk stole data and used it to forge credit applications. And it was not the only professional business targeted.

Legal Professional : "estate planning advisers" were running a ponzi scheme

The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency court order to shut down a Ponzi scheme targeting retirees in California and Illinois by inviting them to estate planning seminars...

The Legal Professional: US bankruptcies rise in 2009

The USA lumps all kinds of insolvency proceedings under the single heading of "bankruptcy" and so its headline figures are misleading. But behind the headline figure - that there was a...

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