“Saturday Night Live” star Chris Kattan was found looking for an LA DUI attorney following his arrest on suspicion of drunk driving. Kattan’s Mercedes struck a Department of Transportation vehicle on a California freeway. The California Highway Patrol says the Mercedes was seen weaving in and out of lanes shortly before 2 a.m. Monday on […]
Bruce Buck, the man who chairs the Chelsea Football Club and is also a partner at mega-firm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, is to step down from his position with the law firm’s London office. Buck’s replacement is former Skadden Moscow head Pranav Trivedi, who also specialises in corporate finance. Buck joined Skadden in
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Kirkland’s Max Meyers Law has unveiled an innovative website to educate and help those involved in car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle, and pedestrian accidents. Max Meyers has been practicing law in Washington state for two decades. Now he is opening his own personal injury law firm with an outstanding new website that he hopes will
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Andrew Balfour, a former partner of Slaughter and May, has been appointed Chairman of the firm’s Africa Practice Group with effect from 03 February 2014. As Chairman, Andrew will be responsible for shaping the firm’s Africa strategy. He will work closely with the partners and will act as an ambassador, promoting our practice in Africa.
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Here’s a problem for the world’s biggest coffee shop. A parody store, “Dumb Starbucks” has stuck a needle up Starbucks nose and stretched legal interpretations of first amendment protection, but violated Starbuck’s trademark and – almost certainly – its public image and credibility. What does a coffee chain do? Sue? The parody store, which opened
Leftwing billionaire George Soros, the man who broke the bank of England also had his lawyer’s spectacles broken and his hearing aids bashed by his soap opera star former girlfriend Adriana Ferreyr. The incident happened during a court appearance on Friday. According to court papers filed by Soros’s attorney Martin Singer, the 83-year-old left-wing billionaire
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Dr George Beaton reports exclusively for LawFuel on the ReInvent Law conference in New York last weekend. Hot on the heels of the recent story in LawFuel featuring George Beaton and NewLaw New Rules, his new book on trends in the legal services industry, he has sent this exclusive report to LawFuel from the February
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Paulette Brown, the chief diversity officer at law firm Edwards Wildman and a labor lawyer is moving closer towards becoming the next president of the American Bar Association, following her formal nomination as president-elect. She is already the first colored woman to be nominated to that position. In a press release from her firm,
RIVERSIDE, California – A former Guatemalan Special Forces officer was sentenced today to serve 10 years in federal prison for covering up his involvement in the 1982 massacre of nearly everyone in the village of Dos Erres, Guatemala. Jorge Sosa, 55, of Moreno Valley, received the statutory maximum sentence of 120 months in prison
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New York police unions are going to court to decide whether changeds to the stop-and-frisk program are properly made, having filed papers in the Federal Appeals court. The unions claim the judge who ruled the stop-and-frisk practise was discriminatory insulted officers and they want the courts to examine the issue. New York City judge Shira
