Lunes, Agosto 3, 2015

Jamie Dimon unplugged: Create a good team and dump the jerks, says JPMorgan CEO in Boulder

Jamie Dimon says he is no entrepreneur. But the JPMorgan Chase & Co. chairman and CEO knows business and he knows to succeed. Entrepreneurs, he said today, need a good team, need to dump the jerks, and sometimes need to fail. Dimon — whose company is parent of Chase Bank, one of Colorado's largest — made a stop at the University of Colorado Boulder for its "Entrepreneurs Unplugged" event where he let the conversation roll. Dressed in blue jeans and a polo shirt, Dimon was ready for any question…

Audi, BMW, Daimler buy Nokia's Here digital mapping business

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After a hard-fought battle, a consortium consisting of Audi AG, BMW Group, and Daimler AG have partnered to take over the Here digital mapping service from Nokia.

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Exclusive: Oil heir Al Hill III asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear $41M lawyer fee dispute

A Dallas oil heir who is objecting to paying $41 million in legal fees has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case. A judgment signed June 3 by U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay of the Northern District of Texas upheld an earlier determination that Albert G. Hill III owes a combined $40.9 million to Calloway, Norris, Burdette & Weber in Dallas and Campbell Harrison & Dagley in Houston. The lawyers represented Hill in an inheritance battle. A petition filed by John Da Grosa Smith, an Atlanta…

Bar exam participants down in New York state

The number of bar examination test takers in New York state was the lowest in nine years. A little more than 10,700 prospective attorneys took the examination on July 28-29 across five locations, including Buffalo. It was the lowest number for the July examination since 2006, according to Diane Bosse of Buffalo law firm Hurwitz & Fine, who chairs the New York State Board of Law Examiners. The board examined 11,195 candidates during the two days of testing conducted in July 2014. In Buffalo, numbers…

Morgan Lewis inherited diversity problem that cost Bingham a big client

The top lawyer at Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. revealed earlier this week that the insurer stopped working with the now-defunct law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP because of the lack of diversity among its partnership ranks. MassMutual General Counsel Mark Roellig told Bloomberg BNA that neither Bingham’s Boston office nor its Hartford office had a single African-American equity partner during a period when the insurer worked with the firm. MassMutual made it clear to Bingham it wanted…

Consultant to CPS Energy files lawsuit to block San Antonio Business Journal's open records request

Two real estate consulting companies sued the Texas Attorney General's Office to block the release of public information regarding work performed for CPS Energy's in its search for a new headquarters building. DTZ Americas Inc. and Cassidy Turley Real Estate Services Inc. filed a lawsuit with the 353rd State District Court in Travis County challenging an opinion by the Attorney General's Office stating that the documents are subject to the state's open records law. The San Antonio Business Journal…

Local tech CEO's family files wrongful death lawsuit related to Amtrak

A lawsuit was filed Friday seeking damages relating to the death of a local technology company CEO in the Amtrak 188 derailment in Port Richmond that killed eight and injured hundreds in May. Rachel Jacobs, 39, was traveling in the first passenger car from Philadelphia back to her home in New York and her husband and young son on May 12 when the train derailed. The lawsuit, filed by Tom Kline of the Philadelphia law firm Kline & Specter on behalf of her family, accuses Amtrak of “willful, wanton…