A few weeks ago, a client who will be opening a factory in China within a couple of months told me how much he has been learning about China by following people on Twitter and following their news links. He then asked me who if I had a list of "China people" he should be following. I said abou ...

As might be expected, the number of lawsuits over Toyota vehicles has grown sharply. According to a Bloomberg news report, several different groups of plaintiffs have filed at least 29 suits in California, Texas and South Carolina. It is likely that, as the suits advance and others are filed, the U. ...

I never wrote about Tengzhong's purchase of Hummer because I was absolutely certain that deal would never go through. It just never made any sense to me and I thought Tengzhong was playing it up for publicity purposes and that the Chinese government would never give its approval. It is now looking l ...

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP signed a lease for 100,000 square feet in 801 17th St. NW in Washington, D.C. The firm will be the anchor tenant in the building. The firm will move into the glass office building in early 2011. Currently Fried Frank has offices at 1001 Pennsylvania A ...

In this Case Egnotovich v. Katten Muchin Zavis & Roseman LLP, 604101/06 , Decided January 23, 2008 ,Justice Bernard J. Fried NEW YORK COUNTY ,Supreme Court Plaintiffs joined a vacation club in which they each deposited $ 400,000, and the group was to purchase or lease apartments or houses in pri ...

A Second Superseding Indictment has been returned against former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. It also affects his brother Rob Blagojevich. It adds 8 counts, but no new allegations. The conduct underlying the charges is the same. The reason for the new Indictment is added protection for the Gov ...

The New York Times reports that the Transportation secretary Mr. Ray LaHood told Toyota drivers that they should stop driving their recalled Toyota vehicles until they can be repaired at a Toyota dealership. According to the New York Times, Mr. LaHood was very strong in his words about the defecti ...

Another lawsuit has been filed against Toyota Motors Inc., this time in Houston after a woman was killed in an accident when her car sped through a stop sign and smashed into a cement wall. The accident occurred on Dec. 18, a few weeks before the recall that would have included Trina Renee Harris’ 2 ...

The family of a Houston woman whose car smashed into a cement wall, killing her on impact, filed what is likely the third acceleration-related wrongful death lawsuit against Toyota in the nation. Trina Harris, a 34-year-old mother of two, died on impact when her 2009 Toyota Corolla slammed into an ...

On Thursday I wrote about the Supreme Courts decision last week in State v. Williams, bemoaning the fact that while the court had agreed that felonious assault and attempted murder were allied offenses, it bought into the idea that Williams could be convicted of two separate counts of attempted murd ...