How good are law firms REALLY when it comes to associate development? The practices vary widely, whether you’re an associate in a US, UK, Australian firm or otherwise. And according to a recent report in AbovetheLaw, which indicated how associates can easily get overlooked when it comes to courtroom experience. The issue arose over oral
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DLA Piper – The loss of David Bowie at the start of this year prompted much discussion of his musical legacy, but less well-publicised was his contribution to finance. In 1997, rather than renew a long-term record label contract, LA banker David Pullman convinced Bowie to securitise the rights to receivables from his back catalogue
Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is getting the cold shoulder from the Republican Party and faces a political standoff as Obama puts forward his nominee for the Court. As USA Today reported, the nomination of the Judge was a high point for him, but may represent yet another low point in Washington rivalries. So when
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Melbourne police are hunting the contract killers of a Melbourne lawyer, who acted for a number of gangland figures. Joe “Pino” Acquaro was a well known criminal lawyer in Melbourne who had a $500,000 contract on his head and was shot early Tuesday morning after leaving his ice cream cafe. Mr Acquaro had strong ties
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Sponsored Post The Personal Properties Securities Register, or PPSR, is the centralized government system where they store security interest registrations over personal properties. Implemented by the Australian government in 2009 through the Australian Personal Property Securities Act, it provides the nation a publicly accessible library of security interests in personal properties. Through it, the Australian
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Lawyers sit at Number 2 on the “Best Paid” list in the United States. So who do you think might be sitting at top position? Doctors, would be the correct answer, in a survey of the 25 highest paying jobs in America for 2016 undertaken by Glassdoor.com. Lawyers trail only doctors on a list of
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Robinson & Cole – Reader’s Digest, owned by Trusted Media, was hit with a class action in New York federal court alleging that the magazine sells its subscribers’ personal information, including names, addresses, and demographic information, to data miners without any consent, in violation of the Michigan’s Preservation of Personal Privacy Act. Class representative, Shannon
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Bill Cosby’s lawyers are seeking New York magazine notes of interviews with alleged victims of the comedian, with the magazine objecting on the basis of confidentiality. The application was made in Manhattan this week with the Cosby legal team wanting “all documents and things relating to any communications” between the magazine and the seven
A new study by the ABA Law Practice Division’s Social Media, Legal Blogs, and Websites Committee looked at the intake process at law firms around the country. Quite an eye opener! Learning from what they found—or rather, what they didn’t find—can give you a leg up on turning potential clients into actual clients. Make a
Burns & Levinson – In 2014, I posted Carefully Craft Your Arbitration Clause if You Want Some, But not All, Disputes Arbitrated. A decision a few months ago, Trustivo, LLC v. Anthem, Inc. is a reminder that if a contract has a broad arbitration provision, a party may have little chance of getting court intervention –
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