but taking on Big Law is another issue altogether. AbovetheLaw report on Working the Edges, the NBC show with Jenna Engles, played by Kacey Rohl. They report: She is leading the decidedly unglamourous life of a law firm junior associate. She has an unreasonable boss who is both demanding and belittling. She and a colleague […]
Quitting a law firm can be an intimidating issue for some lawyers, but not for this one who decided her boring corporate law job should be replaced with something she enjoyed more – art. So how did she illustrate her quit letter to the firm? See it here. She did it with a style that
Dentons expands its corporate practice in China with the lateral hire of Frank (Fengguo) Niu to the Beijing office as Partner. Frank has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, and China outbound investment. Frank’s practice focuses on cross-border acquisitions and joint venture transactions in the energy, infrastructure and manufacturing sectors. He previously
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John Bowie – I stepped off the train at Pampalona and contemplated watching the running of the bulls before stepping back on and continuing to San Sebastian where I contemplated eating them instead. The food here is surely some of the best in the world and the nonsense of these festivals and events is to
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The shooting of law professor Dan Markel, the founder of the PrawfsBlawg, who opened his door to be shot in the ultimate irony for a man whose death has created shock waves in the US legal academic community. Police say Mr. Markel, 41, a criminal law professor at FSU College of Law and founder of
New York, May 30, 2014 – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is pleased to announce that Jonathan Adler, Andrew M. Ahern, Michael Bolotin, Alexander R. Cochran, Courtney M. Dankworth, David A. Luigs, Natalie L. Reid and Edward M. Rishty will become partners of the firm, effective July 1, 2014. Jonathan Adler, based in the firm’s New
Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Flurry, Inc. announced today that they have reached a definitive agreement for Yahoo to acquire Flurry. “Yahoo’s growth in mobile traffic comes from great people and great products” Yahoo is on a mission to re-imagine users’ daily habits, and mobile is at the center of everything we do. Our agreement
All the evidence surrounding the downing of flight MH17 shows it was a Russian missile fired by Russian separatists who acted as “Russian gangsters” according to the families of some of the victims of the Malaysian airlines tragedy. And the West’s response is being criticised for being too soft and for permitting Russia’s Putin for
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We at LawFuel are frequently beset by online dating site news and know many are online hunting down a new partner, but Tinder and the app that lets strangers meet using their geolocation is something that has lead Hollywood’s Dave Franco give things a go on Conan O’Brien’s show. The results were, well, highly interesting
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Lawyers get plenty of bad press, but they also do a lot of good in times when they are desperately needed to right wrongs. Take the work initiative by Barry Zuckerman, head of paediatrics as Boston City Hospital, who established the Family Advocacy Program with three lawyers to prod landlords, secure government benefits families were
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