A hot jailhouse romance in Florida – where else? – well, maybe California or Mexico – has landed a lawyer in a heap of trouble with the local bar. The story goes that a deputy walked into a jail interview between attorney Jessica Mishali, 35, and her client, Ysreal Granda, 26. The pair appeared to
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Morrison & Foerster – Aaron P. Rubin and Daniel A. Zlatnik Operators of social media platforms and other websites typically manage their risks by imposing terms of use or terms of service for the sites. As we previously wrote, websites must implement such terms properly to ensure that they are enforceable. Specifically, users must be
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Anyone who has watched “Making a Murderer” – all three of you – will know that Steven Avery served 18 years in prison before being released after DNA evidence proved his innocence. He was then rre-arrested and convicted of the murder of photograher Teresa Halbach. And he’s appealing again, using a smart lawyer named Kathleen
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How did a “Perry Mason moment” torpedo a major lawsuit against GM and also embarrass one of the big name plaintiff lawyers’ in the US? Easily, as it happens. The case involves the major defect in GM ignition switches and the lawyer who was embarrassed was Robert Hilliard. The “problem” for Mr Hilliard was a Tulsa
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Racketeering Conviction Included Largest No Fault Insurance Fraud Scheme Ever Charged Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MIKHAIL ZEMLYANSKY was sentenced today to 15 years in prison in connection with his operation, from 2007 through 2012, of a sprawling racketeering conspiracy that engaged in
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Tommy Wyher* For too long now, and all over the world, irrational drug laws have seriously interfered with medical research. Marijuana is yet to be legalized in many parts of the world, and as a result there is even a hindrance on medical research. Despite the fact that we have established that marijuana does
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Firm Enhances National Strengths in Complex Commercial Litigation and Class Action Defense CHICAGO — Jan. 28, 2016 — Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced the Chicago office has grown more than five times larger, from eight to 43 lawyers, since opening in February 2014. The office
2016 Lex Mundi Emerging Africa Conference: March 3-4 in Cape Town (HOUSTON, January 28, 2016) LawFuel.com – Law News Daily – Donald Kaberuka, former president of the African Development Bank, will present the keynote address at the Lex Mundi Emerging Africa Conference, which will be held March 3-4, 2016, in Cape Town. Dr. Kaberuka will
How do you start a successful law firm these days? What’s more, how do you start a successful law firm if the principals are all women. But wait . . there’s more . . how do three Black women start a law firm that succeeds and prospers in a tough, white-male dominated legal world? LawFuel spoke
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Cherie Blair has promoted pop star James Blunt’s wife Sofia to the board of her law firm, creating another high-profile glamorous rival to the other London glamor lawyer, Mrs George Clooney. But Sofia and Amal Clooney may cross swords too as Cherie Blair’s law firm, Omnia Strategy, represents some high profile bad guys – various
