[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] UK junior lawyers have expressed their serious concern over proposed pay rates to be made at criminal court level by the Ministry of Justice. A Ministry consultation into pay rates has posed a serious threat to young lawyers, the Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) have said in a statement (shown below). The fear is that
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A “prescriptive analytics” test with leading Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin is being developed with a software provider to help predict legal risk based on both data and the expertise of leading lawyers. The software provider, Veriluma, is seeking to “encode the mindset” of senior lawyers as part of the pilot program. Prescriptive
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”95837″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Boies Schiller’s success is due to a variety of factors, not the least being the firm’s ability to not just capitalize upon its star principal David Boies, but also to a formula that has projected the firm into the legal stratosphere. The firm’s co-founder and managing partner Jonathan Schiller was interviewed by
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Preet Bharara, one of the highest profiles of the US Attorneys fired by President Trump and an outspoken prosecutor who has worked hard to help eradicate corruption. A New York federal prosecutor, he refused to stand down as one of the 46 US attorneys who Attorney General Jeff Sessions sought to fire and who
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Getting into a happy situation with your law job is easier said than done – deadlines, anxious clients, billing targets – and getting some undersanding of quite how that can be accomplished is no easy feat. The Lawyer’s “systemic coach”, Zita Tulyahikayo and QC James Pereira run their ‘Loving Legal Life’ series who discussed
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Kathy Enstrom, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”), announced today that HERBERT LINDENBAUM, a Manhattan personal injury and medical malpractice attorney, voluntarily surrendered today in Manhattan federal court. LINDENBAUM
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[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1488965131109{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1488965681830{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}”] Former Nixon lawyer John Dean is once again on Trump Attack, saying the President is “way off base” after his Obama wiretap claim. The former counsel, who said President Trump faced calamity following his firing of
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Big Name law firms are working to woo work from London’s fintech startups in the hope of building valuable business from the fast-growing sector. Fintech is likely to provide major disruption to the banking arena, but that digital disruption has not always been accompanied by a detailed legal analysis of the implications, which is
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The assistant to the fired acting Attorney General Sally Q Yates has been hired by British-based Big Law firm Linklaters in their Washington DC office. Ms Yates was fired by the President after refusing to enforce his executive orders in the so-called “Muslim ban”. Her deputy is Matthew S Axelrod, who has taken a
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Ken Day* – Let’s face facts – many lawyers ‘of a certain age’ are just happy where they are with their tech skills. They are close to being Luddite in their aversion to new technology. But being tech savvy is more important than ever in the hyper competitive legal world. As the world changes
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