Company: LexisNexis UK Release summary: The latest Bellwether research paper titled, ‘Stress in the Legal Profession: Problematic or Inevitable’, published today by LexisNexis UK highlights that stress is an endemic issue in the legal profession with two thirds of respondents currently experiencing high levels of stress despite the confident ‘business as usual’ … [Read more...]
How Big Data and AI Can Help Manage ‘Big Crime’
Big data and artificial intelligence are changing the way crimes are investigated, and prevented an Israeli lawyer has told the Calcalist Mind the Tech conference in New York. Nimrod Kozlovski is a partner at Israel-based law firm HFN and lecturer at Tel Aviv University. In the digital age, traditional methods of managing crimes are no longer viable, Kozlovski … [Read more...]
What The White-Shoed Big Law Firms Say About Wearing Brown Shoes. In A Word: Don’t!
Image: Stylemann Sartorial style in the law has long been an issue that ranks high in white-shoed Big Law firms, not perhaps as high as gender equality and pay scales, but high nonetheless. And the issue that was recently raised was whether brown shoes should be warn with a blue suit. Well, should they? The issue arose at a ‘Transforming Women’s Leadership in the … [Read more...]
The Avenatti ‘House of Cards’ – Grand Jury Indictments Allege Tax, Bank and Bankruptcy Fraud
LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury indictment filed late Wednesday charges high-profile attorney Michael Avenatti with a host of fraud and tax offenses that allege, among other things, that he stole millions of dollars from clients and millions of dollars of employment taxes that his coffee company … [Read more...]
‘Sadistic & Unjust’ Nazi Plunder Sees US Attorney Return Old Master to Rightful Owners
The 1639 Painting by Salomon Koninck Titled “A Scholar Sharpening His Quill,” Was Looted by the Nazis from the Schloss Family During World War II Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the return to its rightful owner of a painting looted by the Nazis during World War II. The piece, A Scholar … [Read more...]