Hints and tips:
...“I’m just going to go to lawyers . . . I’m dying to talk to other people about it. I’m dying to talk to the press.”...
...(NYT) The special counsel in Trump’s Georgia election interference case has stepped down after the presiding judge issued an ultimatum....
...“I’m a big fan of the Houston court,” says a well-known financial adviser who has appeared in several cases before the judge....
...Meanwhile, the Biden campaign will have to consider how it responds to the unfolding court cases against Trump — the pace of which, as I understand it, is largely down to the various presiding judges....
...The judge presiding over the case in New York urged the former president to refrain from making comments that would “incite violence, create civil unrest, or jeopardise the safety or wellbeing of any individuals...
...Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on the US legal system and the judge presiding over his case in New York after pleading not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records....
...The presiding judge, Nicholas Rowland, was withering in his response....
...Despite the initial appearance of unanimity, however, Mariko Watahiki, a former judge who sits on the Toshiba board and had led the attempt to entice a Farallon representative on to the board, suddenly changed...
...One thing to start: Leon Black, the billionaire financier, has failed in his effort to persuade a judge that one of his top business rivals conspired with a Russian fashion model to publicise made-up allegations...
...Leon Black at war with former allies Twelve short months ago, Leon Black was an American luminary....
...The president, a former chair of the Senate judiciary committee, “appreciated Judge Jackson’s commitment to stay in the lane of judges prescribed by the constitution, and her highlighting the importance...
...Number one, you obviously had the allegations against Gavin Williamson, the former minister without portfolio — he was forced to resign....
...“It’s like the greatest M&A advisory business.” Apollo instead opts to buy cheaply and in bulk....
...The judges applauded Perlroth’s sobering analysis of the potential for a cyber catastrophe....
...What would Apollo look like without Leon Black?...
...Say you buy a company in year two of 10 and do some major M&A with it in year four. By year seven you want out. By the beginning of year nine you start needing to get out....
...Job moves British tycoon Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance appointed a judge of the supreme court of India, SJ Mukhopadhaya, and former first minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones, to its newly created global advisory...
...The only other person to come close to the almost half a billion in spending is fellow billionaire and former hedge fund manager Tom Steyer....
...Presiding over the trial will be Lady Dorrian, the first woman to serve as Lord Justice Clerk, Scotland’s second most senior judge....
...Shortly before the arrest warrant was issued, Marcelo Bretas, the presiding judge, tweeted: “Living with obedience to ethical and moral principles is not easy, but it is worth it.”...
...The development will also flummox those following the case after Richard Leon, the judge presiding over the trial, had forcefully rejected the government’s attempt to block the merger in a 172-page judgment...
...In an interview with the Financial Times, he launched a broadside against Delaware’s judges and legislators for kowtowing to corporations and against recent decisions that now shield most M&A from litigation...
...But the company scrapped its “selective enforcement” defence after Judge Richard Leon, who is presiding over the case, denied its request for communications between the White House and DoJ officials about...
...But for those not lucky enough to get a seat before Judge Richard Leon, there was radio silence. The US judge refused to let anyone leave his courtroom before he had finished delivering his verdict....
...Dame Laura Cox, a former high court judge, has been appointed as the head of an independent inquiry into how complaints of alleged bullying and harassment of House of Commons staff have been handled....
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