Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD MELTZ, the former Chief of Police, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, at the Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to ten years for conspiring to kidnap, rape, and murder the wife of […]
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We hear a lot these days about the virtual lawyer and all the working from home stuff that makes handling a case about as urgent as putting out the washing. But is it really that good? Well, yes, for most. Forbes ‘Brand’ recently ran an artice about virtual lawyer Eric Hsu of Clear Focus Law
Did a university violate the law by ordering football players to remove crosses on their helmets? FOX News reports that Sasser, who is representing an unnamed student, gave the university until Wednesday to “cease your censorship and publicly acknowledge, in writing, the right of ASU’s students to engage in private speech, including speech in the
What is it really like to be a personal injury lawyer? And what advice does British personal injury lawyer Michael Pace have for those facing an insurer with their “recommended law firm”? Take them, or not? Writing in the Lincolnshire Echo, Michael Pace talks about the challenges facing both personal injury lawyer and client in
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The former Minter Ellison leader John Weber will replace Andrew Darwin as the domestic head of DLA Piper in Australia, according to LawyersWeekly. “Our Australian business has made significant progress over the past couple of years, as we have more closely aligned our local practice with the global firm,” said Darwin on his successor, whom
According to The Madison-St. Clair Record, a California woman filed a lawsuit against Pfizer Inc., Greenstone LLC and Pfizer R&D Cortex District alleging that her daughter was born with congenital birth defects as a result of using Zoloft during her pregnancy.* The Zoloft birth defect lawsuit was filed in St. Clair County Circuit Court (Case
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Conflict of interest issues and lawyer/client relationships are one thing, but when a prisoner is found with a bikini-clad image of his favorite prosecutor on his cell wall it has lead to all sorts of trouble, including the loss of the prosecutor’s $83,000 a year job. The picture of Marriya Wright has lead to an
The Oscar Pistorius trial was a worldwide trial sensation and we have some key pictures from the six months’ of the trial that help the world spellbound. See them here
Blogging is the key to law firm marketing success according to many experts, including Lee Frederiksen, the managing partner of Hinge Marketing, who believes it is the one . . single . . success factor for business development. Law marketing guru Larry Bodine has written about six ways law firms can improve their blogging and
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An aviation law firm claims the National Transportation Safety Board’s NTSBcurrent method of releasing plane crash data prejudices the ability of victims and their families to recover suitable damages, as well as information about crashes. The Wolk Law Firm is an aviation law firm specialist based in Philadelphia and they say the way in which
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