The hacking of Jennifer Lawrence nude pictures along with other celebrities is one thing, but revenge porn, where disgruntled partners and others publish nude pictures of others is a growing problem. Charlotte Laws, however, is taking the battle right back to the perpetrators. Charlotte Laws helped draft California’s anti revenge porn bill, even though many […]
Using humor to teach law is something prescribed as one of the best forms of medicine by a law professor who believes using the “pedagogical power of laughter” can be a hugely underestimated tool when it comes to teaching. Professor Reed, a clinical law professor at Northwestern University Law School believes humor, properly used, can
Outsourcing legal work – or any work – is something law firms are doing with increasing frequency. The biggest firms – think Clifford Chance in India – are doing it and now Jacoby & Meyers are facing a lawsuit over billing work handled by “support companies” owned by some of the current or former partners
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Getting free publicity is always good – so long as the publicity is good. At least that’s the way it should be for law firms because bad publicity for a law firm is not, as the adage goes, “good publicity”. But getting positive publicity is something that can achieve wonders for your business and a
Chicago and Los Angeles –Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, a national law firm with 460 lawyers in 22 offices around the country and Barger & Wolen LLP, a California-based law firm with 45 attorneys in six offices, announced today they will join forces. The merger creates one of the largest insurance law practices in the United
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Tom Snelling and Kim Sofroniou at Freshfields write about current judicial concerns over the use of witness statements in English court proceedings, and the possible options for reform. Freshfields Brukhaus Deringer – Back in 2012, in her judgment in the mammoth Berezovsky v Abramovich litigation, Mrs Justice Gloster (as she then was) noted that the
Global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer announced today the appointment of two US-based attorneys—Mitchell Presser, who becomes head of Freshfields’ US M&A practice, and James Douglas, who joins as head of the firm’s US leveraged finance practice—as partners in the firm’s New York office. Recognizing clients’ increasing need for international experience in global dealmaking, Freshfields
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Todd Glickfield is a feisty, successful attorney from Marion Indiana. One issue that was before the Court recently however was not recorded in the brief: he wasn’t wearing socks and the Judge ordered him to. Glickfield, as is his way when he believes in an issue, resisted. He is, according to one report, the Matthew
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LOS ANGELES – In coordinated criminal and civil actions filed today, federal prosecutors obtained an indictment and the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil complaint against a Los Angeles-based immigration attorney who allegedly ran an investment scheme that defrauded foreign investors seeking permanent residency status in the United States through the EB-5 Immigrant Investor
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September 2, 2014, New York – Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of Mayer Brown’s Anthony Diana as a New York-based partner in its Records and E-Discovery (RED) Group. Diana was formerly a partner and co-leader of Mayer Brown’s Electronic Discovery & Information Governance Practice in New York. “A Chambers-ranked lawyer with a national
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