Deflated! That must be the word for both Tom Brady and the Patriots after they received a hefty punishment for deflating footballs. But for the NFL it was far more than that. The so-called DeflateGate scandal erupted at a time when the NFL had a $25,000 punishment on their books for altering game balls. Tom […]
Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner continues to fight against fallout from the University of Virginia rape-retraction story. The “Rape on a Campus” story that appeared in Rolling Stone in November has lead to at least one lawsuit but there may be others. Wenner has hired high profile first amendment lawyer Elizabeth McNamara of Davis Wright Tremain,
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It’s gender talk time again for law firms – not that the issue every truly disappeared from the partners’ table. However it’s interest, as Fortune Magazine have reported, that Big Law’s Orrick Herrington – the same people who handled the high profile Ellen Pao gender discrimination lawsuit for Kleiner Perkins, explained why they overhauled their
A midsized commercial law firm based in Birmingham is set to become the first law firm in the UK to go public, listing on the AIM market with an IPO set to raise US$15 million for expansion. Gateley is a firm with six British offices and another in Dubai. The public funds would be used
Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago. This article was first published in the Huffington Post. The Supreme Court plays a central role in the American legal and political system. In recent years, it has decided profoundly important cases involving such issues as campaign finance regulation,
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An intricate neo-Nazi plot has involved a Jewish Melbourne lawyer in a nasty ISIL threat and a swirling controversy over his alleged claims for genocide for Palestinians has been revealed. The odd twist of events involved Australian neo-Nazis who wrote in an online forum about “all out war” against ISIL and the lawyer, Josh Bornstein,
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Issues of rape and sexual assault are too frequent on many university campuses and Oxford University has just resisted a legal challenge brought by a former student who sought to challenge the university’s restrictive approach towards inquiries into such matters. Elizabeth Ramey took a judicial review proceeding to the High Court but the court refused
Jenner & Block have announced that highly experienced bankruptcy lawyer Richard Levin, the man who helped draft the US Federal Bankruptcy Code, is to join the firm. Levin has been chair of Cravath Swaine & Moore’s bankruptcy group since 2007 and his role in the area has helped shaped US bankruptcy law since his days
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Anyone for a law firm shoot? As in smart pictures, celebrity endorsements and anything else that can make your law firm site truly shine? Well, we’ve had all of that with a lot of law firms but now a firm from Russia has surely taken the cake. The website has the partners and staffers posing
The changing dynamics of the law market also create major changes in the areas that firms place their resources into. Smaller firms are generally hidebound by their practice areas, which mean they are more susceptible to cyclical trends and practice downturn. Accordingly firms are increasingly focused upon areas of activity that will be counter-cyclical or
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