Sydney multimillionaire John Symond, the founder of Aussie Home Loans, has succeeded in a court application to have his former lawyers pay him for advice that landed him in difficulties with the Australian tax authorities. Symond took legal action against Australian law firm Gadens after he had been forced to pay tax, penalties and interest
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Global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright is expanding its Latin America practice with the opening of a new office in Brazil. To be based initially in Rio de Janeiro, Norton Rose Fulbright’s Brazil practice will be its 55th office worldwide and its third office in Latin America, complementing existing offices in Venezuela (Caracas) and Colombia
Kristina Long was a former UK beauty queen, crowned Miss Bolton and winning a Miss World University competition. But she has now been given a one year jail term for driving while twice the over alcohol limit, hitting a pedestrian and flinging him 80 feet. Miss Long, 26, now has her legal career and life
Fox News have received a lawyer’s letter from Lindsay Lohan’s attorney in respect of an alleged defamatory comment made about Lohan’s mother on the Channel’s “Great American Panel”. Fox News guest commentator Michelle Fields had claimed on Sean Hannity‘s Fox News show that the actress and her mother, Dina Lohan, were doing cocaine together. However
Washington, DC — The global law firm Jones Day has announced that it will open an office in Perth, the mining and energy center of Australia, in April of this year. The Perth Office will initially focus on projects and project-related disputes, with an emphasis in the energy sector. The Perth Office will be Jones
It took the rumors of an affair between an actress and a lawyer to establish – as if we really needed it – that social media is the way to go when it comes to spreading rumors at light-speed. The accusations that Gwyneth Paltrow was cheating on husband Chris Martin with the entertainment lawyer Kevin
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A Minnesota lawyer has attacked the Catholic Church over their list of accused abusers provided by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis released the names of nine priests Monday, saying none are now in the active ministry, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported. Three are dead, and the others have been removed from ministry.
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Lawyers on television are a dime a dozen. You can find excellent lawyers like Perry Mason, unethical but effective lawyers like Saul Goodman, or eloquent lawyers like Jackie Chiles. But none of them are as astoundingly bad at their job as Arrested Development’s Barry Zuckercorn, played brilliantly by Henry Winkler. Here are five things
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The ongoing saga over the attempted extradition from New Zealand of Kim Dotcom continues to wend its way through the New Zealand courts with a Court of Appeal judgment showing the 2012 raid was in fact legal. The removal of information to the US by the FBI, seeking to work with New Zealand authorities
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A catalog of sexual discrimination that lead to appalling discrimination against sex abuse victims has lead to a federal investigation into the Missoula County Attorney’s prosecutors and the way they treated often grossly serious sex abuse cases. “Boys will be boys” was one alleged response provided to the mother of a five year old rape
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