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Roger Racket’s Back – ‘Dirty Trickster’ Roger Stone Freed and Unleashed
Roger Stone the self confessed Washington DC ‘dirty trickster’ and has had his sentence commuted by President Trump, which has also unleashed some stern comments from former Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller who said Stone was prosecuted because he had committed federal crimes. Stone’s deposition ‘rage compilation’ (below) provides some insight into the man and his […]
Ghislaine Maxwell Arrest Sees Prince Andrew Links To Obscure Lobbying Firm Propelled to prominence By A Kiwi Ambassador
Lawyers for Prince Andrew have increased their preparedness for their client’s potential problems by speaking with a Washington DC lobbyist whose career was propelled by a New Zealand ambassador into a world of often insalubrious clients, according to The New York Times. London lawyers Blackfords are representing the prince in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, spoke with Washington […]
How The Disintegrating Law Firm Hired By Rudy Giuliani Has Spawned Its Young
Dan Garner – Breaking up, as law firm Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP are doing, may not be so hard to do after all. On November 6, 2019, Rudy Giuliani announced that he hired Pierce Bainbridge for representation with the Ukraine fiasco. Just a few months earlier, LawFuel was the first legal publication […]
Is The Berman Ouster in New York A Further Reflection of Trump Political Interference? Maybe Not With This Lawyer . .
The debacle surrounding the firing of US attorney for New York’s Southern District has seen a new entrant in the spotlight: white collar crime specialist Audrey Strauss whose appointment has continued to shine a light upon the District’s ‘important cases’. Ms Strauss took over from Geoffrey Berman on an inetrim basis, which has confounded many […]
Boies Law Firm Upheaval Continues With 4 Partner Defection to King & Spalding
The turmoil at Boies Schiller Flexner has continued with four litigators leaving for King & Spalding including a former firm exeutive committee member. King & Spalding had recruited four more complex commercial litigators from Boies Schiller Flexner, including one who had served on its executive committee. This now amounts to 35 partners who have left […]
Laying Zoom Bare – Holding Zoom Meetings Without Wearing Pants is Just Part of the Problem For Lawyers Using Zoom
The move to Zoom meetings, online courts and the other online, at-home work for lawyers has created a range of new issues, not the least being what lawyers’ online meetings sees them wearing and – but even more disconcerting – security issues involving problems with confidential information and privacy that should concern lawyers. The federal […]
Who Are The Lawyers Helping Prince Andrew Keep Safe From US Law Enforcement Over Jeffrey Epstein?
As Prince Andrew faces increasing pressure to speak with the American authorities regarding his links with deceased and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein his law firm has provided a firm rebuttal of claims of ‘zero co-operation’ with US authorities. So who are the Duke of York’s lawyers? His law firm, a six partner firm specialising in […]
How Allen & Overy Has Dealt With The COVID Crisis . . And One Thing They Would Not Have Done Again
Allen & Overy is one of the largest law firms in the world and managing an organization of that size when something like COVID struck was a major upheaval and it struck at a time when the firm was grappling with some significant, strategic issues. With over USD2 billion in revenues, 5500 staff and with […]
