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LUXURY LAW SUMMIT

Protecting your brand in the global marketplace

The luxury team at Covington & Burling discuss managing reputational risk at the contract stage.

BLOG: WHISTLEBLOWERS

Is Ranbaxy the Tip of the Iceberg?

As a result of a 2007 lawsuit initiated by a whistleblower under the US Federal False Claims Act, Ranbaxy USA has agreed to pay the United States Government and multiple state governments the sum of $350 million to resolve civil claims.

OUTSOURCING

Exigent extends into Canada

Exigent, a leading global provider of legal process outsourcing (LPO), is opening a centre in Canada.

HOT GOSSIP

New Hampshire's 'Robin Hood' accused of harassment

A group of friends nicknamed 'Robin Hood' who roam a US city and fill up parking meters which are about to expire have been hit with a lawsuit claiming they harass parking enforcers.

DOING THE DEALS

Dealmakers

A round-up of recent global deals and the lawyers who made them happen

MOVES

In and out

A weekly round-up of who's moving up, down or out in global legal practice

BLOG: SOCIAL MEDIA

Is the world still flat?

SEC social media rule overlooks rules of engagement around the world, says Veta T Richardson, president and chief executive officer of the Association of Corporate Counsel.

BLOG: LEGAL PROFESSION

Which way now for Personal Injury lawyers?

Personal injury (PI) lawyers are working in an era of fundamental and evolutionary change, not least because of the changes driven by the Jackson reforms but also because of the changing attitudes of banks and funders to PI law firms.

LUXURY LAW SUMMIT

Luxury brands head for the summit

A raft of top luxury brands are on the VIP list for the first ever Luxury Law Summit.

PFI

PF2: a new approach to public private partnerships?

James Larmour of Freeth Cartwright considers HM Treasury's “Standardisation of PF2 Guidance.”

LUXURY LAW SUMMIT

Growing legal issues for luxury sector

Luxury companies are reporting an increase in the breadth and depth of legal issues engulfing the sector, according to research carried out for the Luxury Law Summit 2013.

Petraeus hires legal big gun for affair probe

By Megan Malloy

20 November 2012 at 13:39 BST

Former CIA Director General David Petraeus has hired a renowned Washington DC lawyer to defend him in the multiple investigations of an alleged extramarital affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.

Washington DC: Williams & Connolly HQ

General Patraeus has instructed Robert Barnett who has been a partner at Williams & Connolly for 34 years and built a reputation on defending political leaders, the news agency Reuters reports. Barnett has negotiated book deals for President Barack Obama and former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and has advised former presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush as they moved from government to private life.

Lewinsky connection

Mr Petraeus is currently under investigation from the CIA, the Justice Department, and Congress.
Ms Broadwell has also put in place a high-powered legal team, instructing Robert Muse at Washington DC firm Stein Mitchell Muse & Cipollone. Jacob Stein, another of the firm’s partners, represented Monica Lewinsky during the Clinton impeachment trials in 1998, UK newspaper, The Daily Mail reports.
Jill Kelley, the woman who first alerted the CIA after allegedly receiving harassing e-mails from Ms Broadwell, has hired Abbe Lowell from New York firm Chadbourne & Parke, who defended John Edwards, and Judy Smith, another former representative and crisis manager for Ms Lewinsky.

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Law firms across Europe are failing to look after their retained clients with general counsel slating the lack of communication and regular reviews, according to new research from the Global Legal Post in association with Martindale-Hubbell.

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Luxury Law Summit 2013

Venue: The Caledonian Club, London
23rd May 2013
The Luxury Law Summit will bring together luxury business leaders, luxury legal experts and regulators for high level networking, debate and informative roundtable sessions.