How can Best Lawyers help me find the right lawyer? is the oldest and most respected peer review publication in the legal profession. For more than three decades, Best Lawyers lists have earned the respect of the profession, the media, and the public, as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere. Our lists of outstanding lawyers are compiled by conducting exhaustive peer review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. Best Lawyers peer-reviewed listings are now published in more than 70 countries around the world, and our presence continues to grow in the international legal community. Whether you are a...
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese attorneys representing Carlos Ghosn, including lead lawyer Junichiro Hironaka, quit on Thursday following the former Nissan chief’s flight to Lebanon from Japan, where he had been fighting financial misconduct charges. In an emailed statement, Hironaka said everyone involved in the case at his practice had resigned. A spokeswoman there declined to give a reason. A second lawyer in Ghosn’s three-person legal team, Takashi Takano, also quit on Thursday, according to an official at his office. A person who answered the telephone at the office of the third lawyer, Hiroshi Kawatsu, said she did not know if he still represented the former automotive...
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Finding Help: How to Find the Right Family Attorney There are times people have this rough sailing in the family. Nobody says having family problems can be a piece of cake and it can go worse to the point you need to get some help. It may be a time to get a family lawyer. A family lawyer is something you may have to get when the problem within the family is no longer going to be resolved on its own. In the event you want to get an attorney, make sure to get the best one. It is best to know how to ask the right questions and be able to look at the situation as it arises. Let’s face it, hiring an attorney can be costly. You may have to spend an arm and a leg when you are getting a...
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Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen wants shorter prison sentence because he gave feds info about Trump inaugural donor Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, says his prison sentence should be reduced because he offered prosecutors information about the donor behind a $900,000 contribution to Trump's inaugural committee, court records show. Trump's onetime legal fixer made the claim in court filings his attorney submitted Thursday and Friday to convince a judge to reduce his three-year prison sentence. Cohen is serving time for pleading guilty to coordinating hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. The women said...
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Two senior media executives and an eminent media lawyer were passed over for appointment as chair of the ABC board last year in favour of prime minister Scott Morrison’s “captain’s pick” of journalist and businesswoman Ita Buttrose, documents released on Wednesday under freedom of information confirm. The men recommended for the job by the independent panel were former Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood, former News Corporation CEO Kim Williams and senior lawyer Ian Robertson AO, the national managing partner of Holding Redlich. All three subjected themselves to an extensive vetting process, involving a number of gruelling interviews and background police and taxation checks, only to see the process...
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Prince Andrew may have ‘valuable information’ on Epstein sex offences: lawyers WATCH: Prince Andrew retreats from public life amid Jeffrey Epstein saga Britain’s disgraced Prince Andrew is facing mounting calls to provide information to U.S. law enforcement agencies and lawyers who are investigating crimes committed by American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. Lawyers for Epstein’s victims believe Prince Andrew may have valuable information about the late financier’s sex offences. When Epstein died in August, he was facing charges of trafficking in underage girls who provided sexual favours to the powerful men visiting his luxury properties in the Caribbean and...
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A Little Rock attorney tried to interest federal authorities in now-contested allegations from Ukrainian officials that former Vice President Joe Biden improperly exerted his influence to protect a Ukrainian company associated with his son. Bud Cummins, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, confirmed in a Monday interview that he was approached in 2018 by intermediaries for Ukraine's then-Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, who requested Cummins' assistance with contacting federal law enforcement authorities. Cummins said he contacted U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman of Manhattan, N.Y., with the information, which Cummins said he never vetted. But Cummins said he dropped...
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Bolton's lawyer says he has information on Ukraine that hasn't been disclosed – CNN Former national security adviser John Bolton has "personal knowledge" of relevant meetings and conversations "that have not yet been discussed in testimonies thus far" as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, but he is still refusing to testify until a federal judge rules in an ongoing legal fight between House committees and the White House, according to his lawyer. Bolton's lawyer, Charles Cooper, wrote a letter to lawmakers Friday in which he teased the idea that his client could offer new details related to the impeachment probe, as well as additional context about events...
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Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn’s lawyer has told a federal judge that Flynn first wants the prosecutors to hand over a plethora of information that he believes is exculpatory and then, partly based on that information, Flynn will ask the judge to dismiss the case. “At the appropriate time, Mr. Flynn will file a separate motion asking that the Court dismiss the prosecution for egregious government misconduct and in the interest of justice,” lawyer and former prosecutor Sidney Powell said in a Nov. 4 court filing ( pdf ). “Mr. Flynn is entitled to discovery of the materials he has requested … that will help him support such a motion.” Flynn pleaded guilty on Nov. 30, 2017, to one...
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