What makes an innovative law firm? There are perhaps any number of factors that can warrant a firm being so labelled, but for European law firm Garrigues, they have won the title three out of the past four years in the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers awards. So what exactly are Garrigues, a Spanish law firm, doing […]
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By Muna Saleem* Once upon a time (although not that long ago) being a divorcee and trying to meet new significant others was extremely difficult, largely as a result of society’s perceptions of divorce, particularly being divorced and female. However, opinions have changed dramatically in the last few decades and many women in
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Working out how to build a great website for your law firm involves some angst, an amount of creativity and a dollop of money – often quite a lot – but the best element of a good law firm website are outlined in an article posted by ConsultWebs Special Projects Developer Jonathan Weiss in the
THE ALLURE OF THE POTENTIAL COST SAVINGS OF BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE PROGRAMS IS TOO GREAT FOR MANY AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS TO RESIST. Not only do the financials of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs look good (the immediate cost savings from the organisation not purchasing the handsets or paying the service plan fees), the organisation
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Popular Canadian television radio host Jian Ghomeshi has issued a $50 million lawsuit against CBC for his firing over “information” the company claimed precluded it from employing the 47 year old Q radio show host. That’s sent Ghomeshi to the lawyers who alleges both breach of confidence and bad faith by CBC, where he has
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The first health worker to be isolated under the rules to impose mandatory quarantine for travellers from Ebola-hit regions is to sue over her quarantine. Kaci Hickox was placed under 21 day quarantine in New Jersey after returning from Sierra Leone, arguing that her constitutional rights were infringed. New Jersey, New York and Illinois are
It’s to become easier than ever for non-law firms to enter the UK legal profession following recent changes made by the solicitors’ watchdog. The changes came about because changes made by the “Tesco law” reforms were failing to attract new players in the UK law business. The measures will make it easier for companies to
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One of the greatest attributes of any great law firm are the shelves of legal volumes and those rich-smelling and somewhat musty books that create the atmosphere we all love in a real law office. No more. The digital area is rendering such smells and sights redundant as they slowly but surely reduce them, remove
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The law license of Terry Joel Nolan, one of Muskegon’s highest-profile trial attorneys, has been suspended for three years because of his 2013 cocaine-use conviction, reports Michigan Live. The suspension takes effect Nov. 5 and runs until Nov. 5, 2017. A Michigan Attorney Discipline Board hearing panel of three Muskegon County lawyers released its decision
Begging for sex is one thing (we guess), but begging for it 78 times in one hour is just a tad excessive, but this lawyer has already copped $100,000 fine an eight month suspension, which has been reduced to two month by an appeals court. Why, you might wonder? First, he claimed Asperger’s disorder as
