The inevitable litigation that will follow the Amtrak derailment has yet to be seen, but attorneys are watching events closely and what the federal investigation discloses as the causes of the accident, which injured over 200 people and killed at least seven. Legal Intelligencer reports that the train traveling from Washington, D.C., to New York
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The latest diet to hit the market is the “eFactor Diet”, which is being pushed heavily and creates some new expectations with a solid offer bursting with diet “goodies” in terms of give aways, sensitive price points ($29.95), guarantees and a great deal more. The eFactor Diet gives away the supposed “four factors of weight
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Branding is important for any business but particularly for law firms, the MARKETINGmanager of a New Zealand practice whose global brand has been ranked as one of the best in the world says. DLA Piper was ranked eighth in the world in the latest BTI Brand Elite 2015 study – which SURVEYED general counsel about
Jeremy Clarkson and his co-presenters on the “Top Gear” show will be avoiding any legal issues with news that they are talking about launching a new car show entitlerd “How of Cars”. Netflix will be looking at an on-demand service with the craftily titled show being a take on their wildly popular “House of Cards”
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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