LawFuel.com- Best Law Firm Newswire & Marketing Site – The decision to file for bankruptcy is a tough choice, which makes hiring a knowledgeable attorney with a high success rate imperative. Check out these tips for finding the best attorney for your needs: 1. Check that Your Attorney is Certified It’s no secret that everyone […]
Legal education is the connection that seven out of 10 of the ABA Journal’s group of 2013 “Legal Rebels”, resulting largely from the disruptive innovations that technology has brought about. The Journal is introducing its Rebels, who you can find at this link, together with their archive of 81 earlier nominated Rebels. [wp_ad_camp_1] Among the
LawFuel.com – Texas Lawyer reports on the top litigation departments in the State, using two criteria: general litigation and specialist litigation with an award open to any Texas law firm. Here’s the Texas Lawyer categorization: The general litigation award was categorized by firm size: small, midsize and large. The specialty-litigation practice groups were: intellectual property,
LawFuel.com – Best Law Newswire Service – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CRAIG B. HABER, a former partner of a global accounting firm, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to stealing nearly $4 million in client payments intended for the firm. HABER pled guilty
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For lawyers, social media can be something regarded, perhaps far too easily, as something for the young and something to be left for them. But dismissing it indicates that you are leaving a lot of marketing clout on the table because older people, in the US at least according to Pew Research, are far better
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LOS ANGELES – August 13, 2013 – LawFuel.com – The Best Law Firm Newswire – Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP announced today that class action and products liability trial attorney Lisa Gilford has joined the firm’s Mass Torts, Insurance and Consumer Litigation Group in Los Angeles. Ms. Gilford most recently served
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Google’s ever-changing ability to search for the ‘quality content’ and avoid spammy backlinks has been followed up by a webmaster-announced change – yes, another – that will frighten many and warm the hearts of some. The changes have altered Google’s value placed on backlinks obtained via article sites, guest posts, backlink networks and other sources.
New Jersey judge Nelson Johnson regards the Atlanta City Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa cocktail waitresses as being “sex objects” rather than cocktail waitresses, a view maybe enforced by the fact that the casino itself refers to them as the “Borgata babes”. But last week the babes, who took a lawsuit against the casino, lost
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No-one fell from grace harder than former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, but there again – maybe it could be Anthony Weiner, the repeat-sexter. As the headlines were hogged by reports of Weiner, the New York mayoral hopeful, and his generally creepy sexting habit, Eliot Spitzer’s own comeback was inevitably played out as well. Spitzer’s
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Steven J. Harper is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University and author of The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis (Basic Books, April 2013), and other books. He retired as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in 2008, after 30 years in private practice. This article appeared in The American Lawyer. In June the legal
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