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Former Medical Research Fund Controller Charged with Embezzling Over $1.8 Million

Law Firms / November 19, 2014

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), and Shantelle P. Kitchen, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations Division (“IRS-CI”), announced today the arrest of KAREN […]

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The Yale Law Professor, Campus Rape and Angry Students

Featured, Law schools / November 18, 2014

Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld has found himself in hot water with students over an op-ed in the NY Times regarding campus rape. The professor’s problem is that he his comments about consent indicate that affirmative consent policies are unenforceable and too broad. More than 75 students have signed an open letter about the

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Bad News for Pedigree Law Firms Hiring Outside Attorneys

Featured / November 17, 2014

Dina Wang is a Fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School. She’s on twitter at @DinaSWang. Hiring big-hitting lawyers by General Counsel and large companies is going through a major ground-shift, according to a new study. The law firm pedigree may be less important than many of the Big Law

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Bill Cosby’s Lawyer Responds To Rape Allegations

Featured, LawStars / November 17, 2014

The US has become aghast that beloved Bill Cosby could really be someone who had sexually abused women at the height of his fame. Could this be true? His lawyer, John Schmitt, did the lawyering on the swirling rumors and accusations: He would not dignify the “decade-old, discredited” claims with a response. He released a

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Law Firm’s New Dawinism & The Morgan Lewis Deal

Featured, Law Firms, US Law / November 17, 2014

The merger between Morgan Lewis & Bockius and Bingham McCutchen has been placed Jami Wintz McKeon as a powerful lady in the law. Already chairing Morgan Lewis and acting as the woman heading the largest law firm in the US, she now rides shotgun on the merged firm which was described by Philly.com as a kind of ‘law firm

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Worcester Firm takes Legal 500 Accolades for Chambers’ Listings

Lawyers, UK Law / November 15, 2014

Worcester- based law firm Harrison Clark Rickerbys has received accolades from Legal 500 with a number of top rankings in the Chambers UK Guide rankings of major UK law firms. In the guide, produced annually by Chambers & Partners, HCR was ranked in the top tier of band one for family law, licensing, litigation, private

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Law Firm Disruption and Lessons From The UK

Law Firms / November 15, 2014

James Peters wrote this piece for Forbes magazine. He is vice president Legal, New Market Initiatives for LegalZoom, an online legal service that has created its own disruption of the legal marketplace. Disruption is often a direct result of innovation, and in today’s global market, innovation and its subsequent disruption in one area of the world set

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The Morgan Lewis and Bingham Tie-Up A Done Deal

Featured / November 14, 2014

At last! After a long gestation it appears that Morgan Lewis & Bockius are to “kind of” merge with Bingham McCutchen. Kind of? Morgan Lewis are to take on 227 partners from Binghams, leaving around 60 in the cold. The deal follows Bingham voting in favor of the deal. Reuters report today that a Morgan Lewis

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Pregnant Lawyer’s Battle For Trial Postponement

Featured, Lawyers / November 12, 2014

Among the many issues arising for women in the law, pregnancy is the major bugbear forstalling careers and leaving women stranded from making partner, the boardroom or lofty heights. And so when a New York lawyer requested that an upcoming trial be postponed because of her pregnancy, it lead to a major row. Deborah N

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The $1 Billion Divorce Deal

Law Firms / November 11, 2014

Let’s face it, there are not many divorce settlements that land the divorcee instantly in the list of the richest people in America. But that’s what is happening with the divorce deal done between Oklahoma oil man Harold Hamm and his former wife, who is now set to pocket close to $1 billion. Your read

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