Iat Hong Arrested On December 25 In Hong Kong On U.S. Insider Trading And Hacking Charges In Addition To Successful Cyber Intrusions Into Two Law Firms, Defendants Charged With Attempting To Hack Into Total Of Seven Law Firms Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of … [Read more...]
The Lawyer Who Could Nuke Obama’s Israeli Policy
Recent moves by the UN over Israel's West Bank settlements and President Obama's overall approach to the country could be "nuked" by a bankruptcy lawyer Donald Trump is suggesting as ambassador. Bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman is both intensely pro-Israel but - more significantly against the two-state "solution" and in favor of Israel's development of settlements on the West … [Read more...]
5 Issues Donald Trump’s New Legal Counsel Will Need To Answer Very Soon
Why should it surprise anyone that the lawyer chosen by President-elect Donald Trump should be someone who, as the New York Times says, is an iconoclast who likes to shake things up. It should be a marriage made in heaven. McGahn has a rebellious personality to match his new boss and has found himself propelled into a major position of influence in the Trump White House … [Read more...]
Ranking Law Schools on Their Job Placements, Rather Than Their Prestige
Having a big name law school on your resume is great for Big Law jobs, but the reality is that most lawyers don't work in Big Law. And there is also the fact that lower-ranked law schools can also provide greater job opportunities than some of the major name law schools. Professor of Law Daniel Filler at Drexel University recently that Florida International University, for … [Read more...]
Tiffany Trump Takes The Legally Blonde Route to Harvard . . Maybe
Tiffany Trump - the lesser known daughter of the President-Elect - may be following a Legally Blonde route to Harvard Law School. Tiffany is not overly anxious to join the property empire of her father's, but has previously expressed her interest in studying law. An Instagram post a few months ago pictured her LSAT materials with a note: "I got this". Plus, an article in … [Read more...]
Man Who Attempted to Arrange Murder of This Judge and Others Gets 20 Years
December 2, 2016 SANTA ANA, Calif. – John Arthur Walthall was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for soliciting the murders and assaults of a federal judge, two federal prosecutors and two federal agents, all of whom were involved in his prior conviction for fraud. The 20-year sentence will run consecutively to the prison term he received in the fraud … [Read more...]
Lawyers Freeze Frame For the Crazy ‘Mannequin Challenge’
It's nuts, it's irrelevant to anything that means anything but the Mannequin Challenge where you need to freeze frame for a video - counter-intuitive we know - has also been tackled (if that's the word) by numerous law firms. > Check the latest law jobs on the LawFuel law jobs board here We've assembled some of the law firms in the UK and the US who have taken the … [Read more...]
