He may not be a lawyer, but UK investor, entrepreneur and television “Dragon’s Den” star James Caan is set on taking his law firm investment – in Midlands firm, Knights – right into the top ranks of UK’s legal business. The aggressive investor intends to make the break into the legal big time through acquisitions.
Vivia Chen is chief blogger and has been covering the business and culture of law firms for a decade. A former corporate lawyer, Chen is fascinated by those who thrive (as well as those who don’t) in the legal profession. 1. Lawyers are lowest of the low. The legal profession has a serious image problem. According to Pew
It was supposed to be a secret and secrets best kept are undoubtedly those not revealed, even to a trusted lawyer. In this case, the secret was J K Rowling’s and the lawyer was London entertainment lawyer Chris Gossage of law firm Russells who evidently revealed the identity of his famous client as the
DUBAI, UAE, July 16, 2013 – LawFuel.com – Law Firm News– A highly-regarded group of lawyers with accumulated experience of more than a century of practice in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries — including eight partners who specialize in a wide range of transactional and dispute matters — joined Baker Botts L.L.P. today. The lawyers
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Lawfuel.com – Law Newswire Service – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Thomas O’Donnell, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), New York region, announced today that the United States has settled for $1 million a civil health care
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Jay Fahy, a lawyer who was an MSNBC legal analyst died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds near his New Jersey Office, according to reports. It was confirmed that he died of what the Bergen County Prosecutor said were “a single gunshot wound to the head, fired with a handgun”. Two men walking under a railroad trestle
LawFuel.com – The Best Personal Injury Law Newswire – Building collapses in Philadelphia often result in serious injury and even death. If you or a loved one has been injured in a building collapse in Philadelphia, you need an experienced and aggressive building collapse law firm to get you the maximum possible compensation available under
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RICHMOND, Va., July 18, 2013 Lawfuel.com – The Best Law Firm Newswire-– The personal injury law firm of Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen is pleased to announce that Bridget N. Long has joined the firm as a Trial Attorney in the Richmond, Virginia office and that Paul M. Curley has joined the firm as a
LawFuel.com – The Web’s Best Law Firm Newswire – Akin Gump is to restructure itself into an all-capital partner system in January 2014, following a reportedly intensive internal review of the global firm. The change will mean partners will be put on a multi-tier system that combines a combination of both guaranteed and variable remuneration
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LawFuel.com – Law Firm Newswire Service (Los Angeles) – Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP advised Sustainable Power Group (sPower), a Utah-based owner and operator of utility and distributed electrical generation systems, in its acquisition of the assets of Tioga Energy Inc. The deal gives sPower photovoltaic solar arrays in nine states. The value
