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The Dynamic New Zealand Lawyer Who Made The Break To Set Up Her Own Successful Boutique

In an audacious move, Wellington employment lawyer Susan Hornsby-Geluk left a high profile partnership with high profile lawyer Mai Chen in 2013 to start her own practice. Now, this young up-and-comer has gone on to become one of most high profile women in New Zealand law. LawFuel contributor Rosel Labone talks with Dundas Street Legal employment lawyer and […]

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The Man Who Uploaded “The Revenant” Before Cinemas Gets $1 Million Penalty

  LOS ANGELES – A Lancaster man was sentenced yesterday in federal court for criminal copyright infringement for illegally posting screener versions of two movies – “The Revenant” and “The Peanuts Movie” – to a publicly accessible website. As a result of the illegal upload, “The Revenant” was available for download six days before its

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The Death of a Legal Trail Blazer

Richard A. Bowman who died this week was the “father figure” of automotive transport litigation, building the largest automotive product defect defense practice in the US. He is also credited with shaping the product liability landscape for the automotive industry, his firm (Bowman and Brooke) said. The Minnesota Lawyer noted that Bowman, who retired in

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Phony Facebook Profiles By 37 Year Old Man Sent to College Girls Leads to Guilty Plea

  DENVER – Christopher George White, age 37, of McCormick, South Carolina, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to six counts of coercion and enticement of a minor, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge David Thompson

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“Recent Bills to Amend Dodd-Frank Preview Coming Attractions in Post-Election Congress”

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP  Recently introduced legislation suggests that Republicans and Democrats in post-election Congress will be looking in very different directions on how to amend the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank). On June 7, 2016, U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, unveiled a discussion draft of the Financial

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Pokémon Go And The World of Augmented World of Legal Liability Concerns

Pillsbury – We predicted last year that 2016 would be the year of Pokémon. This prophecy came true last week within just two days of the Pokémon Go launch. The location-based augmented reality mobile game/app quickly surpassed Tinder in daily users and neared Twitter’s totals (and as of yesterday, surpassed them), with its users spending

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