Accurately determining the financial losses in white-collar federal criminal matters is vital to all parties as the loss may impact court-ordered restitution and the length of any incarceration imposed by the court. The guidelines manual issued by the U.S. Sentencing Commission (often referred to as the federal sentencing guidelines), first enacted…

Middletown Jury Awards $9 Million, Total Likely to Exceed $13 Million | Connecticut Law Tribune Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/ctlawtribune/2024/05/09/middletown-jury-awards-9-million-total-likely-to-exceed-13-million/ (l-r) Attorney Andrew Garza, plaintiff Charlie Beyer, tearfully relaying the news that the case is finally over to wife Tanya Beyer, attorney Alexa Mahony, and attorney Joonho Hong. Credit: Andrew Garza NEWS…

Omar Haroun, who led AI strategy for e-discovery provider Relativity, left the company in 2023 with hints of a stealth project in the works. On Thursday, he announced the launch of Legal Data Intelligence, also known as Cicero. Haroun will serve as the CEO of Cicero, and is one of its many…

Australia’s Gilbert + Tobin is advising private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) on its $1.4 billion plan to buy Australian fund manager Perpetual, which is being advised by Herbert Smith Freehills. Under the $1.4 billion deal, KKR will take corporate trust and wealth management operations, as well…

The most remarkable statistic to emerge from Law.com International’s research into the Top 30 law firms in the Middle East is that 60% of lawyers choose to make Dubai their home. A ringing endorsement of the emirate’s positioning as a global hub, this underlines the potency of Dubai’s international financial…

A report by Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings looks at whether climate change litigation will impact oil and gas companies in the same way earlier rounds of lawsuits had on the tobacco, asbestos and opioids industries. Litigation over climate change has quadrupled over the past decade, rising to about 2,410 cases by 2023…