Of all the thing a law firm can do to publicise itself, being labelled a “Hate Group” is not exactly number one on the marketing list. However, for law firm representing Kim Davis, Liberty Counsel, has been so-labelled by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a job the group has been doing since the 1980s
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LawFuel.com – US Attorney Preet Bharara announces that Deputy United Nations Ambassador for the Dominican Republic Among Those Charged on Corruption Charges Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-In-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Thomas E.
When it comes to billing lawyers may be stars. But sex? Well according to lawyer and AbovetheLaw contributor Gary J Ross, lawyers ARE good at sex. So is Mr Ross pulling our leg about legal libido, or is there something in this? Lawyers. We’re good at a lot of things. Billing. Legal analysis. Dressing (perhaps).
Does Hillary Clinton need a criminal lawyer? And – if she does – will she do anything about it? The question has evidently been raised by a trusted legal adviser as the Clinton email scandal refuses to disappear off the political radar. It has, says the adviser (quoting Watergate’s John Dean) become a “cancer on
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LawFuel.com – (October 5, 2015 Houston)– Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of Stephen Moll and Jim Cooper as partners in its Insurance Recovery Group. The two will join the firm’s Houston office from Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP in Houston, where they co-led that firm’s Policyholder Insurance Coverage Group for more than 15 years.
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Why earn a mere $1 million a year as a lawyer when there is so much more to make? Mark Herrman,, Chief Counsel at Aon wrote in the AbovetheLaw blog that there would be an “imminant capitulation” of big firms who generate their million-a-partner in profits but will never reach the $3 million per partner
Dentons is pleased to announce the launch of an office in Milan—its first in Italy—with the hire of 21 lawyers, including seven partners, led by Managing Partner Federico Sutti. Sutti, who is rated by both Chambers and The Legal 500 as one of Italy’s most reputable lawyers, was formerly DLA Piper’s Managing Director for Europe
If you thought branding was only for celebrities and big corporations, think again! In the competitive world that we live in today, it is important for professionals to brand themselves and their skills. For any lawyer, having a clean and strong standing is of utmost importance. Lawyers realize that a lot rides on their
We at LawFuel have written frequently about new law models, how technology is changing the way the law is delivered and of course the “curse” of the billable hour. The billing practices of law firms have done several things in recent years – for one, it has developed or enhanced an out-moded billing system that
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The balancing of a lifestyle law firm with – well, with “Lifestyle” -is something that attracts a lot of attention among some lawyers. The problem is that forming and sustaining a “lifestyle law firm” is a great deal more difficult than it may appear on the surface. Among other things, lawyers are often workaholics or
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