Hogan Lovells has bulked up its German presence with the addition of five corporate lawyers from Broich Bezzenberger.
Broich partners Karin Arnold and Thomas Keul join the Berlin office.
They are accompanied by two associates – Martin Greiser and Michael Vette – and of counsel Gerold Bezzenberger.
Arnold has experience of corporate restructuring while Keul advises primarily on M&A and capital markets.
“For us, Hogan Lovells was clearly the first choice in Berlin,” said Arnold.
“We’re convinced that this is the right platform to further develop our corporate practice and to offer our clients a wider service in fields we previously couldn’t cover due to our size.”
A former high school social studies teacher and prosecutor, as well as a retired judge, John Dobroth still hears juvenile cases in Ventura County, Calif.
But although he is known for the thoughtful, creative sentences he metes out, the 70-year-old considers himself only “OK as a judge,” he tells the Ventura County Star, and he thinks of himself as a member of the judiciary only when he has his robe on.
His real calling, he feels, is as an athlete. And he has the record to prove it, having not only recently won first place in his age group in the high jump at the World Master’sTrack and Field Championship in Sacramento, but set a U.S. record for his 60-75 age group with a 5-foot-1-inch leap.
“I wanted to break the American record for my age group, and I’ve done that,” Dobroth said.
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Sheriff’s investigators were looking Monday for a driver who crashed during a brief vehicle chase Sunday in Ojai, then escaped by running into an apartment complex, officials said.
The chase began about 3:40 a.m. Sunday when a sheriff’s deputy tried to pull over a pickup truck that ran a stop sign, sheriff’s officials said. The driver sped away on East Aliso Street, tried to turn right onto East Oak Street, crashed into a wooden fence on a residential property, hit a vehicle in the home’s driveway and also struck its garage door, officials said.
The driver got out of the vehicle and ran into an apartment complex at 307 N.
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Home Page Lawsuits Filed A Pennsylvania homeowner and an Indiana golf course company today filed a nationwide class action lawsuit against E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (“DuPont”), charging that DuPont’s herbicide Imprelis is causing widespread death among trees and other non-targeted vegetation across the country. The complaint specifically charges that DuPont failed to adequately disclose the risks Imprelis poses to trees, even when applied as directed, and failed to provide adequate instructions for its safe application. Plaintiffs’ counsel are working with a leading academic scientist in the fields of forest resources, tree physiology, and landscape management to further identify the cause and nature of the problem and to recommend steps property owners should take to preserve evidence. Read full article…
With time running short, the White House said on Monday it was pursuing a lastditch plan with Congress to raise the U.S. debt ceiling and avert a default that could plunge global financial markets into chaos.
While President Barack Obama insists he is focused on a comprehensive longterm deficit reduction deal, debt talks are stalled and there are just two weeks left until the United States runs out of money to pay its bills.
The vast ideological divide between Obama’s Democrats and Republicans over tax increases and spending on popular social programs has driven a shift in focus in Washington to a backup plan that would give Obama responsibility, and potentially blame, for raising the $14.3 trillion limit on U.S.
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