Part-time law work may pay well for some,but for members of New York’s State Legislature it can earn people like Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver (pictured) up to $450,000 a year. According to financial dislosure filings released this week under the state’s new ethics law, part time work with law firms has been a major earner […]
Raj Shah, a partner in DLA Piper’s Litigation practice, has been named to The National Law Journal’s “Chicago’s 40 Under 40” list. The honor recognizes top young talent in Chicago that will play a leading role in the legal community for many years to come. Shah is profiled in a July 1 special report. The
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Nudging 80, Robert A G Monks is a corporate lawyer, venture capitalist and corporate director. He is also still working hard at trying to change corporate America. From the New York Times. At age 79, many people who can afford to do so are done working. Not Robert A. G. Monks. He is still hard
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Fiona Shackleton is Britain’s most famous divorce lawyer. She represented Sir Paul McCartney when he divorced Heather Mills, a case that saw Mills’ achieve some further infamy when she poured water over Shackleton’s head. Now, Fiona Shackleton, who as a Conservative Party peer is properly entitled “Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia”, is being sued by a
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The Weil Gotshal layoffs have spooked an already fragile legal industry recovery, with some commentators saying there are almost certainly more to come from corporate law firms. Already there have been office closings, such as Baker & McKenzie’s closure of their San Diego office and the closure also of that city’s office for Goodwin Procter.
In a complaint that reads at times like a legal thriller with allegations of gross unethical conduct, a former associate of law firm Brayton Purcell has been filed by a former associate of the firm, Christopher Andreas. The 45 page complaint was filed in the California Superior Court and makes the allegations against the firm’s
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Lawfuel.com – Bankruptcy Law Firm News – The independent authority on legal services, bestattorneysonline.com, has released their list of the thirty best bankruptcy and debt law firms in the United States for the month of July 2013. Each month the top legal services which focus on bankruptcy and debt law are put through a meticulous
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Victoria Pynchon writes the Negotiation Law Blog, from which this post arises: We all read this in the fifth grade, right? Again in high school History and Civics, one more time in college history, philosophy or political science and, if we took the sparsely attended jurisprudence course in law school, we read it again there.
They’re not the greatest of friends and in fact the New Zealand Prime Minister John Key denied ever knowing about the most famous member of his own electorate, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. But all that changed with last year’s raid by New Zealand authorities on the Kim Dotcom mansion, made at the behest of the
The deal count is down and so are profits so far as the biggest UK law firms are concerned. Bloombergs report that the “billion pound” law businesses are suffering from slow deal days occurring with Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy, Freshfields about to report revenues that have slipped or will have shown only slow growth
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