New law firms are also creating new law jobs, as Axiom, the tech-savvy legal services group announce it will create nearly 100 new jobs in Belfast wi a £9 million investment in the city. Axiom is already a major legal employer with around 1200 lawyers, as well as engineers and others who service major corporates […]
Overcoming difficulties in its selected business sector of shipping and transport, a Yorkshire law firm has focused and succeeded. It is now also moving into new offices after meeting its growth targets. Myton Law is based in Hull and is now moving into its new offices at Victoria Pier despite the shipping sector suffering a
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CHICAGO, IL – April 16, 2015 – Schiff Hardin is pleased to announce that Dr. John K. Hsu has joined the firm as a partner in the Intellectual Property group. Dr. Hsu comes to the firm from Winston & Strawn LLP, and brings with him extensive experience in intellectual property litigation. He is
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Brooks Pierce – By Edward C Winslow, a banking and corporate law specialist who is a frequent speaker and writer on topics involving financial services law and authors a blog on law practice management, called MidLaw and Divers Items. @stephenfshaw points to a Wall Street Journal blog post entitled “Is Your Job ‘Routine’? If So,
The Sony email hacks, which have been released in a WikiLeaks database, shows a variety of interesting reads between Sony’s inhouse counsel and outside attorneys, as well as issues ranging from legal fees to conflict waivers. Hacker-in-Chief Julian Assange pronounced “This archive shows the inner workings of an influential multinational corporation,” said a statement by
DENVER – Today, U.S. Marshal John L. Kammerzell is pleased to announce that for the past several weeks the USMS has led a national violent crime reduction initiative, Operation Violence Reduction7 (VR7). The operation ran from March 2 to April 10, 2015. Operation VR7 has strategically focused on reducing violent crime by apprehending
Weintraub Tobin -Scott M. Plamondon – In 2008, former Mayor of Washington, D.C., and then council member Marion Barry became ill with a kidney disease. To survive the illness, Mr. Barry required a kidney transplant, and one of his friends, Ms. Kim Dickens, came to his aid and donated one of her kidneys. Although the
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Who would be attorney for Aaron Hernandez, the former American football tight end who was found guilty of the first-degree murder of Odin Lloyd? Writing in The Huffington Post attorney and TV correspondent Amy Dardashtian reported on how his attorney had sealed his client’s face by making a guilty verdict a “no brainer”. His defense
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A long list of UK law firms have been investigated by the Information Commissioner for likely data breaches last year, according to information from a software technology company. Egress Software Technologies revealed that the Information Commissioner’s Office investigated 173 UK firms for a variety of incidents that may have breached the Data Protection Act. A
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Pro bono law is a key component of many law firm and many lawyers’ contribution to their communities. But when Akin Gump partner Raphael Prober took in a pro bono case involving the co-ordination of over 50 lawyers and other agencies it involved a massive amount on behalf of holocaust victims. Many pro bono lawyers
