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...“I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Jarryd Anderson, co-chair of the financial services group at law firm Paul, Weiss....
...just anywhere: centuries of habit, geographic location, the English reverence for the private realm and ultimate confidence in the law as the one binding agent....
...The UK Serious Fraud Office has secured the convictions of two individuals involved in running a fraudulent green investment scheme in Brazil worth £37mn....
...I am at the end of that call, having watched the ceremony from my office in Geneva....
...Traditional Tory professions such as law and finance still dominate the list. Andrew Griffith, formerly chief operating officer at Sky, is standing in the Sussex seat of Arundel and South Downs....
...office around the world....
...And let’s not forget that it was Conrad Black . . . who argued in 1990s . . . for the UK to leave the EU and join Nafta....
...“Most of those who stay here do so to work in tech start-ups,” says Conrad Chua, head of MBA admissions, referring to the city’s reputation as a technology centre that has produced the likes of Arm, a chip...
...A survey for the Information Commissioner’s Office, an independent watchdog, in April found that less than a quarter of the public expressed concern about the security services having access to their private...
...Part of a celebrated generation of dealmakers — at Skadden Arps, the New York law firm, then at the Rothschilds’ US investment bank — he was known for a quick wit, a fierce intelligence and an ability to...
...Gerhardt, professor of constitutional law at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, claims he has never had so much fun writing a book as he did with this one....
...Lord Black was released after 29 months, when the US Supreme Court ruled against the “honest services” law that had formed part of the case against him....
...The prologued childhood trauma of a brother’s death on a terrorist errand (surely nicked from Hitchcock’s Sabotage or its original, Conrad’s The Secret Agent?)...
...Conrad Black has won a legal victory in Canada, where the country’s top court has ruled that the disgraced peer can pursue libel cases against a former head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission and...
...The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by Conrad Black against his conviction for corporate fraud, ahead of a resentencing hearing in late June....
...Jonathan Ford: A Russian epic for the box office, not a court in England If the law were a branch of the entertainment industry, the English legal system would be entitled to give itself a standing ovation...
...A federal appellate court however upheld convictions of Lord Black on two other charges, one relating to his removal of documents from his office and another to a $600,000 payment from the sale of two newspapers...
...outcome of his law exams....
...A US appeals court upheld Conrad Black’s conviction on a charge of obstruction of justice and one count of fraud, although the three-judge panel also overturned two other fraud convictions against the former...
...Credit, equity and commodity derivatives were less than 10 per cent of the notional amount of derivatives held by US banks in the first quarter, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency...
...In Office Hours, by Lucy Kellaway, Fig Tree RRP£12.99 This year’s funniest office romance comes from one of the FT’s favourite columnists....
...duties of their office....
...Indeed, two of America’s most notorious corporate felons were born Canadian: WorldCom’s Bernie Ebbers and Hollinger’s Conrad Black....
...The result of their collaboration is a book called The 50th Law, written by Greene but in which 50 is given the odd quote. “The greatest fear people have is of being themselves,” he says....
...We are going to crack down on violations of equal pay laws – so that women get equal pay for an equal day’s work....
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