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Law Stars – Mark Geragos, Criminal Defense Attorney Par Excellence

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Mark Geragos is a well known Los Angeles-based litigation specialist and principal in Geragos & Geragos.  He first rose to fame with his representation of Bill Clinton’s former business partner and convicted Whitewater figure Susan McDougal, for whom he secured a presidential pardon in 2001 but he has represented such luminaries as Michael Jackson, Winona […]

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US Attorney Announces Cyber-Disinformation Campaigns By Iranian Nationals Over 2020 Election

Conspirators Crafted Unique Messaging Themes For Each Side of the U.S. Political Spectrum to Capitalize on the Perceived Fears of the Targeted Audiences             Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Bryan Vorndran, the Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division (“FBI”), and Matthew G.

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London City Law Firms Make Millions While Corruption Cases Tumble

London City Law Firms Make Millions While Corruption Cases Tumble

By Ed Siddons, Simon Lock – City law firms are “completely outgunning” the UK’s only complex fraud agency, raising concerns that an “imbalance of arms” is allowing some oligarchs and powerful corporations to “buy impunity”. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal that some companies under investigation have spent up to 10 times more than

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Law Star David Boies – The Master Litigator

Law Star David Boies - The Master Litigator

David Boies is one of the most powerful lawyers in America and best known recently for pursuing legal action against Prince Andrew over sexual assault allegations.    The chairman of  law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner he became most famous for the cases where he lead the successful prosecution of Microsoft in  United States v.

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So How Did The High Court Come To The Colin Craig Costs Decision?

So How Did The High Court Come To The Colin Craig Costs Decision?

The High Court decision of Justice Hinton awarding $400,000 in damages by the High Court after she was defamed by former employer, former Conservative Party leader Colin Craig in the long-running defamation cases. Justice Hinton found both parties defamed each other in certain respects – and that MacGregor had been sexually harassed by Craig. Justice

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Hogan Lovells joins groups in legal challenges over Alabama racial gerrymandering

  November 15, 2021 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Individual voters joined with civil rights and faith groups today to file a pair of lawsuits in federal court challenging Alabama’s newly drawn political maps for state legislative and congressional districts.  The cases were brought on behalf of Greater Birmingham Ministries, Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, and

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Consideration of raising minimum age of criminal responsibility doesn’t go far enough

The Law Council of Australia welcomes the decision by Australia’s State Attorneys-General to support development of a proposal to increase the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) from 10 to 12 years of age, but believes an opportunity to bring Australia into step with international human rights standards has been missed. “We, along with other

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Has The Law Got The Balance Right On Vaccine Mandates?

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GettyImages Claire Breen, University of Waikato and Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato For workers in the health and disability and education sectors, midnight last night was the deadline to receive at least their first vaccine dose under a government mandate that now extends to about 40% of New Zealand’s workforce. With the potential for this

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The Big Law Bonus Season for Associates Sees Further Lift In Big Law Salary Scale

The Big Law Bonus Season for Associates Sees Further Lift In Big Law Salary Scale

The US Big Law firms breaching the $200,000 salary scale for associates has been the subject of a new Big Law salary scale survey in an AboveTheLaw report that follows the $200k limit breached by Millbank in June 2021. Millbank fired the first shot in the associate salary scale war as we have reported and

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