LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Shackelford, Melton & McKinley, LLP, is pleased to announce that Daryl K. Washington has joined the Dallas firm as a partner. Mr. Washington’s practice will focus on commercial and securities litigation, as well as sports and entertainment law. “We could not be more excited to have Daryl join our […]
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Two leading members of the U.S. Senate are calling on President Bush to name a new Attorney General who will restore a sense of integrity to the beleaguered Justice Department. The current Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned last week, ending a controversial 2.5-year run as the chief U.S. law enforcement officer. VOA’s Stephanie Ho reports
LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Trump Taj Mahal, one of Donald Trump’s three Atlantic City casino resorts, reached a $1.2 million settlement with an elderly woman injured after her hotel room toilet broke away from the wall while she was sitting on it. The settlement was in regard to the Taj Mahal’s liability
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LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A recent High Court case contains some important lessons for lawyers, notably that you cannot deduct fees from funds held for a client without express authority, and that you must finish the work for which you have been retained unless you can give reasonable notice of termination, as Duncan
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LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Auckland lawyer John Hackett travels to Tanzania this month to climb Mt Kilimanjaro and, as he does, to raise money for people with cystic fibrosis, LawTalk reports. The AJ Park partner leaves for Tanzania on 17 September with a group of intellectual property lawyers and others closely associated with
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LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – If Conrad Black thought prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was a lingering piece of gum beneath his brogue, wait till he re-meets Peter C. Newman. The self-described “establishment’s court jester” has written a 16-pager on the actionable Brahmin in the coming-soon issue of TL–and it is, by all accounts, juicy, dirty,
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LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A leading solicitor is being investigated by police over allegations of bribery after a senior judge raised concerns about her conduct. Mudassar Arani will be the subject of a criminal inquiry into whether she attempted to bribe a defendant in the recent July 21 bomb trial and asked the
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LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Very rarely in history have people got together because of a common interest in a judge – and when they have it has usually been to conspire to do something nasty to him. Lord Denning is an exception. The social networking site Facebook has a thriving discussion group in
Very rarely in history have people got together because of a common interest in a judge – and when they have it has usually been to conspire to do something nasty to him. Lord Denning is an exception. The social networking site Facebook has a thriving discussion group in his honour that, at the time
Wellington, September 3 (JY&A Media)LAWFUEL – Niue Island is making history by installing its very first-ever real-time booking and distribution system as part of developing their main economic industry—tourism. Christchurch-based SAFI Technologies Ltd. won the contract with funding made available from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), undertook an extensive international search and chose Wellington,
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