America’s lawyer population continues to grow – by 17.7 per cent in the last decade to be exact. Texas has a 28 percent growth over the same period, which was always considered the gold standard in attorney growth in the US, but it is in fact outpaced by 10 other states, the ABA Journal report. […]
The latest judicial barracking delivered online is the #BlackLivesMatter lawyer being shut down by one Judge Hurley in respect of a defendant with a holster but no gun. Just what was going on, and what was the defendant’s lawyer trying to say – whatever, he didn’t really get the chance.
RIVERSIDE, California – Four people who worked at a Rancho Cucamonga business that offered bogus loan modification programs to thousands of financially distressed homeowners – victims who lost more than $7 million when they paid for services that were never provided – were sentenced today to federal prison, with one of the leaders of
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Reed Smith – By Anette Gartner, Alexander Klett, maria Ottermann, Kathrin Schluter Can a wordmark with a particular meaning be infringed by a three-dimensional product design? Disputes regarding the infringement of a wordmark by a purely figurative mark (and vice versa) have been the object of several decisions by German courts of appeals and the
Baker & McKenzie – By Rachel Cuff, Baker & McKenzie What and when? The Commission has adopted amendments to a number of its key procedural rules in order to bring them into line with the EU Directive on Damages Actions, which was adopted in 2014 and must be incorporated into the national law of EU
Mrs George Clooney, otherwise known as Amal Alamuddin, the London human rights barrister, is creating a furore with neighbours over the restoration – is that the right word for what is happening? – to the house she and George are ‘working on’ in the Berkshire countryside. The home is having a home cinema, as you
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The vast majority of cases that personal injury and accident attorneys handle are legitimate and very serious ones that deal with the safety and wellbeing of people who were hurt because of someone else’s negligence. But like almost every area of the law, it’s susceptible to truly weird and wacky cases that you have to
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We’ve heard it a thousand times: The lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client”. But it was something New York patent attorney Anthony Zappin had to listen to during his divorce proceeding when the Judge, Justice Matthew Cooper, reprimanded Zappin and fined the ivy league lawyer for his “aggressively hostile” behavior. Zappin is
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Mike Morse is a lawyer on the make – making a difference to underprivileged children whose law firm is to invest over a quarter million dollars to provide school supplies for Detroit’s under privileged. The proposal is for Mike Morse’s firm, which has joined with a not-for-profit group called “Kids in Need Foundation“, to buy
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Schrader to launch firm’s new Anti-Counterfeiting Practice (Nashville, TN – September 23, 2015) – Adams and Reese is pleased to announce that Kristina Montanaro Schrader has joined the Nashville office as Team Leader of the firm’s new Anti-Counterfeiting Practice which will serve clients in combating counterfeiting, piracy and other Intellectual Property infringements. Schrader was
