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Blakes Partners Make BTI Client Services All-Stars List for 2015

Law Firms / February 17, 2015

Blakes is pleased to announce that Partners Greg Frenette and Paul Schabas were named “BTI Client Service All-Stars” by BTI Consulting Group for delivering exceptional client service. According to BTI, the award recipients are “those rare, exceptional attorneys standing out above all others serving the most influential legal decision makers…. They service clients better than

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Family of Killed Oil Field Worker Receive $29 Million Award

Lawyers, Personal Injury Attorney / February 17, 2015

HOUSTON, Feb. 4, 2015 LawFuel.com — The family of an oilfield services worker killed on the job by an explosion of an industrial battery was awarded $29 million by a Houston jury, The Buzbee Law Firm and The Law Office of Matthew J. Mussalli, PC announced today. Garland “Rickie” Kelley, 38, died after a lithium thionyl chloride

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K&L Gates Names 50 New Partners Across Five Continents

Law Firms / February 16, 2015

Pittsburgh – LawFuel.com – The partners of global law firm K&L Gates LLP have voted to elect the following 50 lawyers to the firm’s partnership, effective March 1, 2015. James Culverwell, Jason Drori, and Mackenzie Shea were named partners in K&L Gates’ Boston office. Culverwell focuses his practice on patent portfolio development, patent litigation, and

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LDM Global Enters Australian Market with Predictable Pricing and End-to-End eDiscovery

Australia Law News, Press Releases / February 16, 2015

LawFuel – LDM Global is breaking the trend to offer predictable and simplified eDiscovery pricing for projects both large and small along with a true end-to-end solution. Sydney, Australia, 17 February 2015 – LDM Global announces a new eDiscovery pricing model that is simplified and predictable with fixed fees across the board, for cases of

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The Wise-Cracking 80 Year Old Defendant

Law Firms / February 16, 2015

Judges like Judge John Hurley have dealt with just about everything and everyone in most cases, including coming face-to-face with murderers, rapists and drug dealers during his time in bond court. But when plucky 80-year-old Dolores Sheinis walked in wearing a prison jumpsuit, he quickly realized it was going to one of his most entertaining

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Clifford Chance Advises 3i in Private Equity Deal

Law Firms / February 16, 2015

Clifford Chance has advised the investment company 3i on the offer from funds advised by Apax Partners, a global private equity firm, for its majority stake in the Azelis Group, a leading pan-European speciality chemical distributor. Atlas Holding S.A., the holding company of Azelis Group, has entered into exclusive negotiations with funds advised by Apax

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The Monogamy Method and How To Beat A Man’s Drive to Cheat

Press Releases / February 16, 2015

The Monogamy Method Review and beating a man’s drive to cheat (see below) The latest entrant to the ‘find your perfect man’ and more importantly – KEEP HIM – is a downloadable report called the Monogamy Method – cute, huh – which explains the key to making monogamy work. That may seem like a tough

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Flexi-Holiday Time For UK Lawyers

Law Firm Management, UK Law / February 16, 2015

Issues to increase law firm productivity have long excited the interest of law firm managers, but an English firm has now taken on a ‘paid time off’ (PTO) policy that lets employees take the time they like from the firm. The firm, Ashton KCJ in East Anglia, is trialling the policy with a few towards

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Brutal Stabbing of DLA Piper Associate

Law Firms / February 16, 2015

The brutal stabbing of DLA Piper associate lawyer David Messerschmitt has not lead to any arrest following the young attorney’s death in Washington DC. The deceased lived in the boutique hotel. Police said they were called to the room about 11 a.m. on Tuesday and found the victim dead and suffering from multiple stab wounds.

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US Law Firms Hindered By Chinese Authorities

Law Firms / February 15, 2015

We’ve reported previously about the issues faced by Western law firms setting up in China (See: Law Firms Facing the Chinese Challenge) and the obstacles they face. Some have retreated already and for US firms, they feel hindered by Chinese authorities according to a new survey conducted by the American chamber of commerce (AmCham), according to Business

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