Just when it seemed that the alleged situation involving the founder of Dreier and his disintegrating 238-attorney law firm could hardly get much worse, even more bad news is being…
In an era of high-tech fraud, the founder of the Dreier law firm is accused of doing it the old-fashioned way. Using little more than his position and…
The founder of the not quite 250-attorney Dreier law firm was charged today by federal prosecutors in Manhattan with securities and wire fraud, in connection with what an Securities and…
In a continuing shakeup in high-echelon Mexican law enforcement, a former drug czar has been accused of being paid $450,000 by drug traffickers, in exchange for providing them with information…
Spying on behalf of a major drug trafficking cartel is still ongoing at the Mexican attorney general’s office, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer suspects, even after five officials there…
Two top employees in the unit of the Mexican attorney general’s office charged with fighting organized crime have instead been passing information to the Beltran-Leyva drug trafficking cartel about federal…
An Arizona-based law firm has opened its first foreign office in Mexico, becoming the first major United States firm to do so in the Baja California Sur state.
Officials in Ontario, Canada, promised compensation to wrongfully convicted criminal defendants today after a judge commissioned by the government to investigate a pediatric pathologist castigated Dr. Charles Smith in a…
A major Canadian law firm has caught the attention of a local newspaper with a recent ad that features a business-suited “law student” with long blond hair.
Gunned down in the bedroom of his home, inches from his wife and infant daughter, Juan Jose Soriano is a prime example of why Mexico’s drug war isn’t likely to…
Addressing a public that has become increasingly outraged over a spike in violent crime related to drug-dealing, Mexico’s president and other government officials have unveiled a comprehensive plan to reform…
Concerned citizens throughout Mexico are planning a national march against crime on Aug. 30 that is focusing, in large part, on a huge increase in kidnappings for ransom in recent…
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