The global expansion of numerous British law firms has been one of the phenomena of recent years – but has the empire-building been something that the lawyers can hang on to and be proud of? The Spectator’s William Cash has written that many of the top lawyers suffer from “group think” – .. it is not […]
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December 2, 2016 SANTA ANA, Calif. – John Arthur Walthall was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for soliciting the murders and assaults of a federal judge, two federal prosecutors and two federal agents, all of whom were involved in his prior conviction for fraud. The 20-year sentence will run consecutively to the
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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division (“DEA”), James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), and Maria T. Vullo, Superintendent of the New York State Department of
Minneapolis, December 2, 2016 – The U.S. law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that partner Kevin R. Coan has been appointed the new Partner-in-Charge for the firm’s Minneapolis office. Coan will be responsible for the day-to-day management and strategic direction of the office, which provides legal services in the areas
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LawFuel.com- Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit against the CITY OF PORT JERVIS (“PORT JERVIS”) in Orange County, New York. Under the agreed-upon Consent Decree, PORT JERVIS will repeal a local law enacted in December
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Writer and feminist Caitlin Moran has raised some hackles and eyebrows with her comments about jobs for women, saying legal jobs are an “exception to the rule” that women should have ‘winsome’ jobs only. Winsome? Author, columnist and feminist icon Caitlin Moran says in a Times on Sunday column that female film characters “should not”
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We all know that setting up a law practice can be a difficult – even soul-destroying job in some cases. Where to locate, where and how to advertise . . the questions and the demands are many and varied. Lawyerlist published an article from lawyer Steven Chung, who set up his practice in Highland Park,
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It’s nuts, it’s irrelevant to anything that means anything but the Mannequin Challenge where you need to freeze frame for a video – counter-intuitive we know – has also been tackled (if that’s the word) by numerous law firms. > Check the latest law jobs on the LawFuel law jobs board here We’ve assembled some
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Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig, a candidate in the Democratic presidential primary, has unloaded on the “conventional wisdom” that the electoral college requires the person who lost the popular vote must become the president. Not so, says the professor in an op-ed in the Washington Post. Conventional wisdom tells us that the electoral college requires
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LOS ANGELES – As part of an ongoing undercover operation by Special Agents with the Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS), five fraudulent “documents mills” have been dismantled in recent months, and the investigation has now resulted in charges against 13 defendants who allegedly produced bogus identity documents. Two of those defendants pleaded guilty today
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