We have reported frequently here about the challenges facing law firms, with mergers, technology changes, billing practices and more. But now, yet another study has come out to show that law firms face irrelevance and face obsolescence, just like some redundant auto industry relic. The study, from Georgetown University Law Center says the industry is
A lawyer described as the “avenging angel for labor” could be the face that Uber grows to fear. Shannon Liss-Riordan has already been christianed by the Boston Globe as the “avenging angel” for the work she has done beating companies like Starbucks and FedEx in labor cases. Now she has her eyes on the $50-billion-plus
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New law firms are relatively everyday occurrences, but a new firm set up in Washington DC has a new twist we haven’t heard of before: a Whistleblower-friendly firm that has launched a new False Claims Act law firm – ProtectUS Law. Set up by False Claims Act relator and lawyer Neal Roberts (pictured), there is
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“Making a Murderer”, the 10 part Netflix documentary on the Steven Avery murder case is a case that continues to keep one of Avery’s attorneys up at night, almost a decade later. Attorney Dean Strang was a key player in the series involving the conviction and life sentence of Avery for the killing of photographer
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Reed Smith – James Beck – In the original Hunger Games movie, while Katniss and Rue are plotting to blow up the Careers’ food stash, Katniss remarks that “destroying things is much easier than making them.” That’s how we feel about our bottom ten worst prescription drug and medical device decisions of 2015. It’s so
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Reed Smith – On December 14, 2015, a federal judge in the Southern District of California concluded that a jury should decide whether Yahoo is liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. § 227, for “welcome messages” automatically sent via the Yahoo Messenger platform, even though the messages were triggered by the
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If you’re like most Americans, you are probably nervous about going to trial. You perhaps have only seen the sleazy trial lawyers and heard about the rigid courtroom protocols. Chances are, you don’t even know what to expect once you enter the trial court but your attorney surely does. So if your attorney prefers jury
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One of America’s most famed – and certainly one of the richest – lawyers died this week. Joe Jamail died at 90, a man who some claimed was the greatest lawyer who lived and with a fortune over around $1.5 billion. He was the lawyer of what was then the largest court victory in U.S. history in
Kelley Drye & Warren – Last week, the Federal Circuit denied en banc review by the entire court of the three-judge panel decision in the Apple v. Samsung case that had revived the ability to obtain injunctive relief against multiple component products, such as smartphones (see our Sep. 17, 2015 post). In doing so, the
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Tweeting for lawyers is something only some can deal with adeptly, but for KMR Law Group Twitter actually started their successful law firm. The Chicago-based law group started two years ago with three African American lawyers Keli L. Knight, Jessica B. Reddick and Yondi K. Morris, and was commenced with a tweet from a frustrated Morris.
