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WASHINGTON, PRNewswire/ — Today, Oceana, the world’s largest organization focused solely on ocean conservation, announced its new chairman, Simon Sidamon-Eristoff of Washington, D.C., and other new officers for its board of directors, the organization’s governing body. Comprised of 19 leaders in business, academia, philanthropy and the arts, Oceana’s board of directors has played a key role in the group’s many policy victories and its expansion from the Unites States to Central and South America, Europe and Asia – including the launch of Oceana campaigns in Brazil and the Philippines. Sidamon-Eristoff, a lawyer with Kalbian Hagerty LLP in Washington, D.C., replaces...

4/15 — Haig V. Kalbian, Managing Partner, Kalbian Hagerty LLP, was recently interviewed by The New Yorker magazine about a $9 billion civil case involving his client, Glenn Stewart, a California resident and former chief executive of The International Banking Corporation (TIBC), a large bank in Bahrain. In 2011, Ahmad Hamad Al Gosaibi and Brothers (AHAB) filed a civil suit against Stewart in federal court in Los Angeles seeking $9 billion in damages for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and conspiracy (among other claims) under the laws of California, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain.  After nearly two years of hotly contested...