Following a week-long trial, El Paso lawyer Marco Antonio Delgado was found guilty of devising a scheme to launder up to $600 million for a Mexican drug cartel. Delgado, a former Carnegie Mellon University trustee devised the scheme for the now-disbanded Milenio Mexican drug cartel in 2007 and 2008. He defended the charges on the
Sexist memos and behaviour is nothing new to law firms, but Clifford Chance has now got itself into hot water over a memo advising their US female employees not to giggle or to show cleavage when making presentations. Good advice, maybe. Or maybe not. [wp_ad_camp_1] Certainly the memo – “Presentation Tips for Women,” has been blasted
LawFuel.com – Law Firm News Daily – If you are a business owner considering filing for personal bankruptcy, you may be unsure if or how your business income and assets will be affected. This will depend on the type of ownership your business has established and the type of bankruptcy you file under. While the
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One of Washington’s top divorce lawyers, Glenn C Lewis, has found himself disbarred for charges of mismanagement of client funds and dishonesty, ending the career of a man who was once at the pinnacle of the divorce lawyer community. [wp_ad_camp_1] A former president of the Virginia Bar Association, Lewis was handed the decision by the
Starting a new law firm can be a daunting experience at the best of times, but for three lawyers who left Squire Sanders, their breakthrough employment firm has now entered the top ranks with its move into the Legal 500. Founding partners Simon Ost, Nick Jones and Dan Bickerstaffe wanted to change the way the
Much debate has occurred regarding the efficacy of the humble press release – the standby of so many in the public relations and media business for so long. Some are calling the release a dead duck but others are not so sure. And for lawyers, the press release business is in fact alive and well.
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He drove trucks and cars for 30 years, but now Ranjeet Grewal, at 54, is a lawyer in India and yet he dreamt of one day being a lawyer. Now he is, as a 63-year-old young lawyer. The Indian Express reports. Ranjeet Singh Grewal, 54, one of the newly inducted lawyers into the Bar Council,
AbovetheLaw are welcoming new columnist Carolyn Elephant, blogger at MyShingle.com. And her first column is about starting your own law firm. Why not? Let me start my inaugural column here at Above the Law with a question: Why not start your own law firm? To be clear, I’m not directing this question at those
The law jobs market is crumbling, according to US reports where graduates have been poured out of law schools and then coming to the reality that the jobs aren’t there. [wp_ad_camp_1] In the US, law schools are actually cutting down the size of law classes, with more than two out of every five graduates in
Is Big Law being slowly devoured by Small Law? Maybe not, but a new LexisNexis report about to be released indicates just how much work the smaller firms (201-500) lawyers are being fed by clients tired of the fees charged by the larger firms – among other things. The Wall Street Journal carries a report
