TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Pam Bondi issued the following statement regarding the lawsuit filed today seeking a declaratory judgment establishing the liability of BP and other companies for the natural resource damages sustained by the State of Florida as a result of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. “Today’s filing is a crucial step toward securing
How can a bike share operation be the subject of a $15 million lawsuit? Where does personal injury law end and common sense begin? Or is the lawsuit one that has total merit? These are all questions facing Ronald Corwin, 73, and his personal injury lawyers, who are suing Citi Bike and New York City
So who is Oscar Pistorius paying a rumoured £3,500 to defend himself? Barry Roux is a big name lawyer in South Africa and regarded as a master of cross examination. His witness demolition has been compared to clubbing baby seals to death. Roux already showed his abilities in court when he discredited police detective Hiilton
How can lawyers accept that the internet is a genuine market for them to use to sell their services. For many lawyers, using the internet to market and sell their services has been as strange as have an electrician fix your broken toilet. Why? Well, an article from Legal Futures outlines exactly what can be
LOS ANGELES – A Northern California man has been convicted of federal fraud charges for his involvement in a $7 million investment scheme that lured investors with false promises relating to the development of an alternative energy technology, Richard S. Hartunian, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York,
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The use and abuse of power of attorney documents is something that is concerning lawyers and law makers in several jurisdictions. The power of attorney is an age-old legal document that has a major place on the affairs of individuals. Providing a mechanism to give another person the right to deal with their financial and
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It may have been no great surprise about Matthew McConaughey’s Oscar win for Dallas Buyers Club, but our favourite here at LawFuel remains his outing in The Lincoln Lawyer. The 44 year old was always the on-the-money guy to scoop the best actor nod this time around and his aw-shucks Texas style conceals a sharp actor
The good news is that lawyers are an industrious and intelligent bunch. Unfortunately, they’re often busy and averse to risk. While the explosion of the Web has helped many lawyers become visible on search engines, leading to more clients and money, others are reluctant to try digital advertising. Coaches help lawyers become more productive and
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In a legal first, a former High School student in Australia faces a $105,000 damages award over comments made about his music teacher on Twitter. It is the country’s first defamation by tweet and Fairfax Media reports that Andrew Farley was ordered to pay $85,000 in compensatory damages, plus a further $20,000 in aggravated damages
Patton Bloggs is a law firm in DC that has a pedigree and profile almost as distinctive as the Lincoln Memorial. But will the firm itself become a monument to what was . . and what could have been? Or will the firm’s entanglement with the oil monolith Chevron ensure that the firm simply disappears
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